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Column by Jim Bishop I’m thinking of you today because Christmas is near, and I wish for you that often elusive but sorely needed gift of happiness. And as we stand poised on the cusp of a new year, I will continue to wish you happiness as we gravitate ever so surely into 2008.
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Column by Jim Bishop While everyone else is decking the halls and wrecking the walls, yours truly needs to climb up on the rooftop and unclog my Chinese chimney so Santa won’t catch the Hong Kong flue (I’m well-sooted for the job).
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Item by Jim Bishop Greetings, boys and ghouls! We’re coming up on that howlingly delightful time of year, Halloween, and to prepare you as best we can for diminutive ghosts and goblins to come knocking on your door, this week’s edition of the “Friday Night Jukebox” on WEMC will dig up a crypt of “monster…
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Column by Jim Bishop What a pleasant stroll down to the corner of memory lane and nostalgia avenue. A childhood friend from my Pennsylvania hometown sent me a (pop) quiz with questions related to artists and music of the 1950s era. Despite pressing demands, I couldn’t resist jumping right on the musical bandwagon.
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Item by Chris Graham Mark your calendars – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is coming to Staunton for one day only in October. Golden Duck Productions is offering the presentation of the fall classic on Oct. 20 at the Dixie Theater in Downtown Staunton. The production – presented by the Staunton Performing Arts Center –…
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Story by Jim Bishop The (Shenandoah) hills will be alive with the sound of (string) music as a cooperative program between Harrisonburg City Schools and Eastern Mennonite University begins this fall. The city school system is funding a strings instruction program through EMU’s Preparatory Music Program, part of the university’s music department. It will begin…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen You must have seen the surprisingly good movie “The Bridges of Madison County” back in 1995, the one based on the surprisingly sappy novel by Robert James Waller. Well, I’ve just seen the Young Persons version of the same simple tale, ablaze with unrequited love and melancholy…
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Column by Jim Bishop “Here we are . . . after all these years …” Ann Cochran warbles in her musical ode to a couple who’ve stuck together through thick and thin.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, He’s the handsomest sweetie That you’ll ever see … ” Often, upon encountering Lee Eshleman, I would bop up to him singing lines from the Bobbettes’ 1957 musical ditty, “Mr. Lee.” For a…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen A couple of important religious holidays are popping up next week, so naturally the Hollywood floodgates will open and your TV will be inundated with spiritual films galore. Dozens of films have been made about the Jews’ exodus from Egypt, and just as many about the crucifixion…
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