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So now that Chris Saxman is out in the 20th House District, what happens next? Republicans will meet this weekend to name a replacement on the ticket for Saxman, a four-term incumbent. Names that are being bandied about include Scott Sayre, whose rumored interest in the 20th was first mentioned to me last fall, when…
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Story by Chris Graham That the jazz industry is struggling is a perverse paradox for local jazz fans. “If you draw a 50-mile circle around Staunton, within that 50-mile circle there are some tremendous jazz guys that are way underemployed, and so I can get really good players for not a whole lot of money,”…
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The armies mustering for debate over lowering health-care costs while raising quality should look first at ways to improve the health of women – and not just when they are pregnant. When infant deaths soared suddenly in Harlem some years ago, I asked my team at New York City’s Health Department to review every case….
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Hod O’Brien – a great name for a jazz pianist, isn’t it? You can smell the smoke in the air at the lounge at the drop of the words. Chances are you hadn’t heard the name before, unless you’re in the jazz cognoscenti, in which case you got out of your chair and bowed in…
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It’s summer. We want fun. We want mindless laughter and crunchy popcorn. We don’t want Ingmar Bergman. No matter what those ancient, snootburger, cheerless critics say about it, what we want is films like “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” currently playing all over the joint.
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The Liz and Llyn Jazz Duo will be the studio musicians for the “River City Radio Hour” on May 15. Joining them will be musician Terry Short, and an expanded peek into the life and times of Olivia Rae Frock, the choir director at the All Saints Church of Propitious Believers.
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– State News: Kaine announces agreement on passenger rail in Lynchburg, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Report explores defense-contractor case decline, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Perriello proposes earmark reform, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – State News: Kaine signs law barring REAL ID compliance, Wednesday, 10 a.m. – Capitol Hill: GSA outlines proposed public-building…
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First-year guard Sylven Landesberg was voted the 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Year, the league announced Tuesday. Landesberg was a convincing winner in the voting by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association, receiving 55 votes to 20 votes for runnerup Al-Farouq Aminu of Wake Forest.
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In 1854, Henry David Thoreau observed that the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation. Whether he was right or wrong, we’ve certainly made tons of movies with that same quiet desperation as an underlying theme. “Revolutionary Road,” nominated for a trio of Oscars and still playing at the Regal Harrisonburg 14, is set…
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From-Here or Come-Here? Sometimes you don’t even have to ask. You can tell by the accent, or lack of one. But that isn’t to say that people don’t care which one you are. It can make all the difference in the world, honestly. We “don’t care,” my friend Jim Nichols famously wrote in a letter…
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