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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] Do you love singing, candy, and getting wrapped up in a great story? Then Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka” musical auditions are for you! The Waynesboro Players in partnership with Imagine That! Theatre is producing this much-loved tale of the world-famous candy man on a quest to find a young…
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Robin & Linda Williams on the bill for Tuesday-night show Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Court Square Theater presents a Hank Williams Sr. Tribute show at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 29. Tickets are $24 in advance, 22 for students and seniors, and all tickets are $4 more at the door. The tickets are available…
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Barnes CD reflects personal journey in music Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The old saying about the difference between blues and jazz has it down. Blues is three chords for a thousand people, and jazz is a thousand chords for three people. “There’s some truth to that,” said Liz Barnes, who as a blues musician…
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Column by Nan Russell www.nanrussell.com Thirteen percent. That number should make you pause if you manage staff, lead a group, or own a business. It’s a number recently released from an on-line survey reported by Reuters. According to Right Management, a subsidiary of Manpower Inc, only 13 percent of employees surveyed said they “planned…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] A wide range of music was served up with the pizza at Shenandoah Pizza on Tuesday night as musicians and music lovers of all types gathered to support the startup of a new music organization in Staunton. Professional and amateur musicians, business owners and fans mingled and networked as…
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A Dad’s Point of View column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com What parent hasn’t dreaded report card time, especially when a child is underperforming? How do two kids, born of the same genetic material, turn out so differently when it comes to school performance and their work ethic? When is it wrong if the “problem”…
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Staff Report EMU news: www.emu.edu They are three men on a mission – seeking to serve up an appetizing smorgasbord of eclectic music that may otherwise not hit the local radio airwaves. John L. Horst, Ted Grimsrud and Jim Bishop produce and host weekly programs on public radio station WEMC, 91.7 FM. They do…
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Column by Jim Bishop Many who actually read these weekly ramblings are aware that I’m a creature of habit. I operate by a regimented timetable with little elbow room for alteration. When I come home in the evening and tell my spouse that I “had a good day,” she replies, “So, you got a lot…
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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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Staff Report Following a three-month series of exploratory and organizational meetings, a group of Staunton musicians, music-venue owners and music lovers will officially launch the Staunton Music Guild at a fundraising gala and membership drive, Tuesday, Dec. 1 at Shenandoah Pizza, 19 E. Beverley, Staunton. The event will feature a number of the Valley’s most…
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.