
Theresa Curry: Too Human brings unique style to Gateway
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.

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.

The River City Radio Hour’s Friday, Sept. 21st performances will mark the beginning of the production’s sixth season. Featured in the opening shows will be The Boogie Kings, violinist Carolyn Lam, comedian Marsha Howard, and The River City Players in a new serial by playwright Bob Crawford. The performances at at 6:30 and 8 p.m. at WTA’s Gateway, 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.

A group of cinema lovers – cinemaniacs, they call themselves now – had this neat idea a couple of years back. We’ll get together the first and third Mondays to watch a classic movie, then talk about it after. From that basic plan sprang the Classic Cinema Club.

WTA’s Gateway will begin its second fall season in September with the addition of four new series. Joining the “Signature Shows” at the venue will be the River City Boys’ Jamboree, the Custin Jazz Night, the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge’s Family Performances and a monthly history lecture. The new series will expand the variety of entertainment WTA’s Gateway has brought to the area.

The Sept. 7 debut of the River City Boys Jamboree will kick off the second season at the WTA’s Gateway. The 2012-2013 season gets a kickstart from a surprisingly strong August that saw the Gateway average just under 100 patrons a night during what is normally considered downtime in the live-arts industry

Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, WTA’s Gateway now has equipment to aid patrons who are hearing impaired

The winners of the Waynesboro Cultural Commission’s 2012 Short Film Competition and Festival are available nightly throughout August on the Waynesboro government access channel (Comcast Channel 7, Lumos Channel 20)

We knew back in 2012 what we were doing to ourselves. It’s 20 years later now, and is it any surprise what’s happened to our Waynesboro? Crozet was already figuring out that spending its tax dollars in stores in Waynesboro didn’t make sense to its own bottom line back before we knew what was about to hit us

We have, unfortunately, experience with losing elections – we being progressives in Waynesboro, loosely defined. And I say loosely defined because the word progressive means something very different in Waynesboro than it does just about everywhere else in the country

Is the 2012 city election going to be about a long-dormant downtown-development issue, or about the current City Council’s decision to roll the dice on a $3.5 million parcel of land that Mayor Frank Lucente hopes will appreciate in value for resale in 20 years? That is the question heading into the home stretch toward…
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