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Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington netted more than $20,000 from its Monte Carlo River Queen fundraiser last month. “Given the direction the economy has headed over the last several months, we are very happy with the outcome,” executive director Kim Renz said. “Thanks go out to the work of our Monte Carlo committee, led…
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“Drop the coin right into the slot . . . you gotta hear somethin’ that’s really hot…” So declared Chuck Berry in 1957, and these many years later, Jim Bishop continues to plunk Buffalo nickels into that colorful Wurlitzer jukebox and conjure up memories of the artists and music that many grew up with.
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From the pool to pot, Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps should probably sign on to endorse potato chips or ding dongs. His recent activities may finally explain his 8,000-plus-calorie intake on a daily basis. It’s a joke, sort of, but it’s really not funny. What is truly not funny is the lack of outcry…
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I really wanted to see … well, anything else. “The Wrestler.” “Slumdog Millionaire.” “Doubt.” But my young nieces were in tow, so we had to think a little differently. Whicb is how we ended up at Colonial Mall-Staunton on Christmas Day watching Adam Sandler in “Bedtime Stories,” a surprisingly decent holiday movie even in spite…
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The other night, I washed down my cholesterol pill with a glass of egg nog. Ahh . . . that most wonderful time of the year is here.
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jIt’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas – only earlier than ever. This year, area commercial radio station WSVO, Mix 93.1 FM,” went to an all-Christmas music format before Thanksgiving. WJDV, “Lite 96.1 FM,” followed suit on Thanksgiving Day. From Bing Crosby’s 1942 rendering of “White Christmas” to a street-corner harmony version from 1954…
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What do a pear, a “talking” tennis ball and “hee-haw” have to do with conducting children’s choirs? More than 250 music educators from across the state found out during a seminar in children’s choral conducted Nov. 21. Julia White, founder and artistic director of the 17-year-old Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir, led 69 choristers, ages 7-13,…
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Trying to comprehend what’s happening with the economy is for me much like trying to understand algebraic equations or women – a futile exercise – but, I’ll comment anyway.
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Hollywood is still abuzz with the news: “The Secret Life of Bees,” currently at The Visulite in Staunton, is a honey of a movie. And while many films based on best-selling books are disappointing, you won’t get stung by this one. (OK, OK. Enough with the Apoidean puns, already. No more, I promise. Stretching for…
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The Eastern Mennonite University music department’s celebratory concert for the fall semester will include a tribute to a 2008 EMU graduate who died this summer. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Saturday in EMU’s Lehman Auditorium and will feature EMU music students and faculty performing alongside one another. “Death cannot separate,” a new piece…
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