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Friday evenings in Downtown Staunton will go interactive on August 26 when the Staunton Downtown Development Associationhosts seven weeks of free live music, art, theater, dance, and games. Activities will be scattered throughout the downtown district every Friday night from 6-9pm through October 7. Friday Nights Downtown is part of the SDDA’s Extended Hours Program,…
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Court Square Theater will host the Latino Film Festival of Shenandoah Valley as it returns for its ninth year of entertainment. The festival will run from October 6 through October 9, 2011 and feature films from Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, and Columbia. For specific dates and up to the minute showtimes, please see courtsquaretheater.com. Find the…
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The Schultz Theatre and School of Performing Arts will present its first drama, Crystal Clear on July 8 and July 9 at 7 p.m. and July 10 at 3 p.m. Imagine being blind, or knowing that you are about to become blind in a world not made for those without sight. Local actors Forrest Sassaman,…
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When many people think of Virginia, they think of horses. The images in their minds may range from red-coated riders chasing foxes across the fields to thoroughbred races. Personally, I think of Mister, Tommy and Magic, the horses my father-in-law keeps on his farm and the ones my son and daughter ride. From 4-H Pony…
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The Wayne Theatre will open in a year or two with a fully formed programming schedule that will get going this summer in a familiar venue a block down Main Street. “The opportunity to sublease the facility at 329 West Main could not come at a better time. We are looking towards the reopening of…
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The Arts Council of the Valley announces Art House 101, a new film festival celebrating the visual and performing arts. The event will take place Jan. 20-22, 2011 at Court Square Theater, 61 Graham St. The three featured films are “Helvetica,” “Note By Note” and “Breath Made Visible,” to be shown at 7 p.m. and…
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Stuarts Draft High School will be presenting the production of “Our Town” written by Thornton Wilder Nov. 18-20 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. Tickets will be $5 for adults and $3 for students, and can be purchased at the door. Concessions will be available during intermission. “Our Town” shows how life…
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I was a Reagan Democrat and Republican activist from ’80-’06. My views have changed as this new-age, anti-Reagan Republican Party has devolved away from the Constitution into a party of extreme hatred and racial, religious and ethnic bigotry, claiming they’re the only “true” patriots and “real” Americans: everyone else is somehow un-American and “liberal” (as…
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A quiet campus at Eastern Mennonite University? Not at all, especially this summer, with outside groups and auxiliary programs stretching the facilities non-stop from early May through mid-August and several major capital improvement projects happening simultaneously. The biggest project: what is being called “Phase II” of the University Commons, a $2.4 million funded project that…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Staunton Downtown Development Association has been awarded a Main Street Improvement grant valued at $2,500 to fund the extension of Downtown Service District streetscape banners to include Churchville Avenue and North Augusta Street. “I’m sure that the new banners on Churchville Avenue will help bring a more unified…
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