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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk! That’s all that Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, and Andrew Garfield do for two-thirds of “Lions for Lambs,” now playing at the downtown Dixie in Staunton. And if you’re still feeling guilty about skipping that last exam in Political Science 101,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two books in 12 months – and he’s working on a case that could easily lead to a third. But Staunton Commonwealth’s attorney Ray Robertson is too busy with the particulars of the saga involving the prosecution of After Hours Video on obscenity charges to worry about the literary aspects…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Last week, newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a Joint Session of Congress during his first official visit to Washington. Upon his election in May of this year, President Sarkozy immediately reached out to the United States, signaling his desire to end the tension that has existed between our two…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Brothers Beau and Kyle Baker couldn’t get the competitive juices out of their blood. So the former state high-school wrestling champions started a mixed-martial-arts training club – with themselves as the charter members.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The transformation of the Shenandoah Valley into the Silicon Shenandoah is not coming along as quickly as some might have hoped – but that doesn’t mean that it’s not coming along.
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: 48-nil Was Virginia really 0-15 in the state of Florida before last Saturday night? That’s some way to get off the schneid. Next up – the schneid that has the ‘Hoos losing seven of their last eight to the Colossus from Blacksburg. WINNER: Tyrod Rulez! OK,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you want to go green, and you’ve taken some steps by improving energy efficiency around the home and office, cutting unnecessary travel and the rest. But you feel like you can do more. “I think most Americans are looking at the sort of things that they do, and a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s the hardest thing a young athlete can do. “It sounds like a good idea – I’ll go, I’ll redshirt, OK. Until you’re used to playing games every year of your life, and that’s taken away. And so you wander around – you wonder why you’re practicing, because you’re not…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] That first half of basketball that I saw the other night in Harrisonburg was mighty ugly. OK, just looking at the scoreboard – which had Siena on top of JMU by a 44-42 count in a game that the Dukes would later win 100-88 – wasn’t in and of itself…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It didn’t use to be the case that dogfighting was considered barbaric or anything like it. Indeed, it was a popular sport for Queen Elizabeth I and her circle back in the late 15th and early 16th centuries – and remained a favorite pasttime of British elites well into the…
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