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Staff Report Local executive chef Mike Lund was asked last week to help prepare the first state dinner for President Barack Obama, held last night in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife, Gursharan Kaur. “The meal has been in the works for some time, but I found out that I was…
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Staff Report Harpsichordist Carsten Schmidt will perform the music of Johann Sebastian Bach Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 at 7 p.m., at Central United Methodist Church, 14 N. Lewis St., Staunton. Schmidt continues his traversal of the six Partitas of Johann Sebastian Bach with a performance of numbers three, five and six.
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Every day, I hear from another woman who is losing her job and her health insurance. Every day, I worry. As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I know firsthand what can happen when a woman can’t afford reproductive health care, whether she has lost her insurance or her insurance doesn’t cover women’s basic needs. Cervical cancer develops unnoticed….
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William Haines, a native of Staunton who was the leading male film star in the world in 1930 before he rose to even greater heights as one of the nation’s most influential interior designers, will be the subject of the next Augusta County Historical Society’s Stuart Speaker Series held at the Smith Center on Thursday,…
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Monday, Oct. 19 Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is joined in the press briefing by Dr. Jared Bernstei, deputy assistant to the president on economic policy, and Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council. MR. GIBBS: Good after – or good morning, I should say. Sorry, I’m used to doing this in the afternoon. Before…
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Friday, Oct. 9 MR. GIBBS: All right. I don’t have a week ahead yet, but we will put it in the guidance that will go out a little bit later on this afternoon, so we’ll get a chance to do that then. Take us away. Q On the Nobel Prize, did anyone in the White…
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Monday, Sept. 28 MR. GIBBS: I have no announcements, so take us away. Q Thanks, Robert. Why does the President think a trip to Copenhagen is going to make that much difference? And what does he hope his appearance there will help? MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously, I think he hopes that he can make a…
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Ellen Schorsch, pianist, will present a recital entitled “Musical Humor” on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 3 p.m. at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center, 126 S. Wayne Ave. in Waynesboro. “Musical Humor” is an international program of mostly classical pieces ranging from the 18th century through the present. Featured will be Schorsch’s arrangement of the First…
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Sons of Bill, a band described as “too edgy for Nashville, but too earnest for New York,” will perform Saturday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Ridge Community College Fine Arts Center. Recently named the best band in Charlottesville for the third year in a row by C-ville Weekly readers, Sons of Bill…
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It is a normal response for a brain injury, including a stroke, to get into a surrounding you are comfortable with. For me, it was my home. Initially I had no depth perception and the world outside my four walls was really big and scary. I was 50 years old and was a pretty good…
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