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Home2018October

Month: October 2018

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Book Review

American Prisons: Hell on Earth

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by by Fran Withrow   Want a peek into what hell might be like? Then sit down with “The Sun Does Shine,” and be prepared to thank your lucky stars you are not on death […]

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Columns

Hidden Histories: Night Witches

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by   by Jack R. Johnson For a short while during World War II, the air over the Eastern front was inhabited by witches. That’s what the Germans called them, anyhow:  Nachthexen or Night Witches, […]

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Abigail Spanberger: Defending Her Country Yet Again

October 11, 2018 CharlesM 0

by   PHOTO:  Rebecca D’Angelo                                                   DESIGN: Doug Dobey by Charles McGuigan […]

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Business Profiles

Stir Crazy Cafe: A Smooth Transition

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by       By Charles McGuigan Early Saturday morning, a line reaches from the counter all the way back to the front door. Mainly, the orders are for coffee, a few iced teas, breakfast […]

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Businesses

MSNBC on Location at Lakeside Farmers’ Market

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by by Charles McGuigan When Kyle Anderberg brings his produce to market he leaves no carbon footprint at all. What he does leave are his own footprints—about 700 of them—from Lakeside’s Tiny Acre to Lakeside […]

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Business Profiles

Zorba’s Express a Full-Service Italian Restaurant

October 11, 2018 CharlesM 0

by by Charles McGuigan Santos Contreras left his home in the coastal city of La Union, El Salvador when he was just fourteen years old. From birth, he had witnessed one dictatorial regime after another […]

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Art Show

“Confluence” by Steve Hedberg and “Hearts and Bones” by Tom Chambers At Glave Kocen Gallery

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by   Carrying 100 pounds of gear mounted to his 12-foot kayak, Richmond artist Steve Hedberg set course in September 2017 to paddle the 320 navigable miles of the James River. Hedberg’s mission was to […]

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“Visions from the Trail” at Stir Crazy Café

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by “ Five years ago, Sonja Moore joined a local hiking group, Central Virginia Trailblazers, and renewed her love of the outdoors. In recent years, she has combined her love of hiking and photography. This […]

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Art Show

New Paintings by Tim Harriss at Eric Schindler Gallery

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by     With his newest group of paintings, Tim Harriss takes machine-aided abstraction to an extreme level. His interest in the Hockney-Falco thesis regarding the use of lenses to create optical distortion has long […]

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  • Haunts of Richmond with the Houlihans: Resurrecting the Art of Storytelling November 14, 2019
  • Acoustic Music Nights at Stir Crazy Café November 14, 2019
  • The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre November 14, 2019
  • One Woman’s Fight for Trans Justice November 14, 2019
  • Under the Rafters at Glave Kocen Gallery November 14, 2019

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    Acoustic Music Nights at Stir Crazy Café

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    The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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    One Woman’s Fight for Trans Justice

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    Reviews

    HAMILTON: Bending the Arc

    by     PHOTO by Joan Marcus by Charles McGuigan HAMILTON, the musical, which is playing at Altria Theatre through December 8, is the perfect entrée to serve up with the impeachment hearings. It was, [...]
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    Haunts of Richmond with the Houlihans: Resurrecting the Art of Storytelling

    by   by Charles McGuigan        Design by Doug Dobey It’s a warm, warm, late October evening, just past seven, and the sun’s already set. I’m standing with a crowd of about twenty [...]
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    Arts

    Acoustic Music Nights at Stir Crazy Café

    by   Every Friday night from five till seven in the evenings, Stir Crazy Café will be hosting Acoustic Music Nights. No better place to enjoy this music than a coffee house.   Bill Kaffenberger [...]
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    Columns

    The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

    by by Jack R. Johnson    Graphic Illustration by Doug Dobey It was rarely, if ever described in American history books, much less American television, but last Sunday’s premiere of HBO’s Watchmen’s series introduced millions [...]
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    Book Review

    One Woman’s Fight for Trans Justice

    by by Fran Withrow     Graphic Illustration by Doug Dobey Sarah McBride is a transgender woman who is taking the world by storm. She has already written a book, interned at the White House, campaigned [...]
Latest Headlines
  • HAMILTON: Bending the Arc November 21, 2019
  • Haunts of Richmond with the Houlihans: Resurrecting the Art of Storytelling November 14, 2019
  • Acoustic Music Nights at Stir Crazy Café November 14, 2019
  • The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre November 14, 2019
  • One Woman’s Fight for Trans Justice November 14, 2019
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HAMILTON: Bending the Arc

by     PHOTO by Joan Marcus by Charles McGuigan HAMILTON, the musical, which is playing at Altria Theatre through December 8, is the perfect entrée to serve up with the impeachment hearings. It was, [...]

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