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Story by Jim Bishop For those who’ve asked, “What Would Lloyd Do?”, some possible answers to this not-so-rhetorical question are provided in a new play with music written by and starring Ted Swartz and Trent Wagler, that will premiere at Eastern Mennonite University’s fall homecoming and parents weekend. In the two-act, 90-minute play, a struggling…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone. “Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Wild animals roam the streets. The chatter of semiautomatic weaponry echoes off the skyscrapers. Blood-crazed zombies, wild-eyed and lusting for human flesh, scream bloody murder as they race through Times Square. There’s not a cop in sight.
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Story by Chris Graham I spent a few minutes in the director’s chair during the production on “Familiar Strangers,” a feature film produced by the Charlottesville-based Cavalier Films that is slated for release next year. So you can add me to the long list of people who played a role in the making of the…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen The leaves begin to fall to earth. The air turns crisp. ‘Tis time for a deluge of Relationship Movies – our autumnal harvest of Sensitive Young People getting their hearts stomped on, valiantly facing unspeakable angst, revealing their innermost secrets, and in the end finding their One…
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Item by Chris Graham Mark your calendars – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is coming to Staunton for one day only in October. Golden Duck Productions is offering the presentation of the fall classic on Oct. 20 at the Dixie Theater in Downtown Staunton. The production – presented by the Staunton Performing Arts Center –…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Mean old movie critics! Most of them stomped all over “Georgia Rule,” the movie we’ve all been waiting for, where Jane Fonda finally turns into Henry Fonda. And even though it looks like a Chick-fil-a comedy in the trailers and turns out to be something totally different,…
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