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John Jones saw an ad promoting Open Mic Night at the WTA’s Gateway, and decided to make the drive over the Blue Ridge on a foggy night to sing a couple of tunes. He didn’t expect to be the winner of the inaugural competition opening Season Two of Open Mic Night.
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Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra is considered to be one of the best, if not the best, catchers of all time. He appeared in eighteen All Star Games, won thirteen World Series as a player or coach, and was American League Most Valuable Player three times. What Yogi is most often remembered for these days are some of his unusual quotes which are a delightful combination of truth, wisdom, and ignorance. None of them were ever mean spirited to one particular person; however, Yogi did say “all pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
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A new set of comedians will bring a second season of comedy to WTA’s Gateway in October. David Wingfield and his fellow Richmond comedians Jesse Jarvis and Jesse Thomas promise a night of PG-13 humor. It will be a great way for audiences to spend a Saturday night. Wingfield and Associates Comedy Night is Saturday October 27 at 8 pm at 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.
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I think we had a really good opportunity to beat a really good football team. It goes back to about six or seven plays that if they had gone our way it would have been a different ball game. Some was our doing and some were other things, but I firmly believe we have important games left and its how you finish up.
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Post-debate polls gave Barack Obama a win in the rubber match of the three-debate series with Mitt Romney, but as with his win in Round 2, it was far from the kind of blowout win that Romney had in Round 1 back on Oct. 3.
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Not quite blues, or folk, or jazz, Too Human takes the emotional content of these three genres and blends it into a unique style all its own.
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It started out as a fun evening of chocolate and champagne at an Augusta County Historical Society fundraiser held in the Smith Center for History and Art in Downtown Staunton. And then the evening turned sinister as party attendee and prominent architectural preservationist Bill Frazier turns up dead in the very building he helped restore a decade ago. At least that’s what supposedly happens at the hilarious mystery spoof, “Death by Chocolate,” being conducted by the society on Sunday, November 4 at 7 p.m.
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Obama for America will be holding an event featuring Bruce Springsteen, local elected officials and volunteers on Tuesday, Oct. 23. As part of the Obama campaign’s effort to turn out voters across the Commonwealth, Springsteen will give a special appearance at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville.
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Life has slowed down for Ellen Schwartz and Roger Bruno, by design. “We don’t have to worry anymore about things like, How will this sound if Barbra Streisand were singing it?” said Schwartz, who with Bruno, her husband, performs in the band Too Human, which will play at the Gateway Theatre in Downtown Waynesboro on Friday, Oct. 26.
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The short answer is, That’s easy. Barack Obama, if only in the line of thinking of film director Woody Allen’s observation that 80 percent of success is showing up.
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