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Preview: Acrobatic Dancing Numbers Make the Musical “Newsies” Soar
They were just supposed to take it.With the increase in newspaper sales during the Spanish-American War, many publishers raised the price on newspaper hawkers from 50 to 60 cents per newspaper bundle....
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Review: "Herald 3" at the Richmond Public Library
Take a final chance to catch the mature work of six local artists.Do artists create for themselves or the audiences who experience the work? This is the broad, age-old question that curator David...
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EVENT PICK: Dia de los Muertos at the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen
Nov. 1 The Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen plays host to the Mexican celebration El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 p.m. The family-friendly event honoring...
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Richmond Halloween Pregame 2015
There's too much creepy fun to pack into just one night.The First Annual Richmond Voodoo FestivalThe Broadberry, Thursday, Oct. 29. Whenever you get the guy who played Eddie Munster in town to help...
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Event Pick: MicroWaves and Pete Curry and the Nachos at Cary Street Cafe
Oct. 28 Edward Prendergast is a party-starting savant. The multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and lead singer for the Richmond group MicroWaves has the unique ability to annoy and please at the same...
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Event Pick: Civil Twilight and Knox Hamilton at the Broadberry
Nov. 3 Civil Twilight was born where the streets have no name. That is to say the Nashville-based indie rockers originally from South Africa have a serious U2 obsession. Bassist, keyboardist and lead...
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Event Pick: Government Issue, War on Women, Omega Boys and Park Sparrows at...
Oct. 29“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.” The reformation of Washington hardcore stalwarts Government Issue could just as well have...
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Food Review: The Boathouse at Short Pump Gets It All Right
There’s nothing I love more than a pleasant surprise. And when I stop to eat a meal at an enormous mall, surrounded by other malls and big-box stores, the last thing I expect is a distinctive, singular...
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Brewing History: CaryTown Teas Offers New Colonial Blends
Since 2006, CaryTown Teas has provided a delicate alternative to lattes and macchiatos from coffee shops that seem to spring up overnight like mushrooms. Owner Patricia Guillouard Adams hand-blends...
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Punch Drunk: 2015's Most Bottom-Barrel Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween is upon us and if you’re like me, you’ve waited until the last minute to even think about costume ideas. Don’t sweat it though. I got you.I’ve compiled a list of some real Halloween outfits...
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Opinion: Virginia Needs to Wake Up From Its Halloweenish Transportation...
Enormous payments made to contractors when work will never be completed. Shell companies running toll roads while blueprinted for bankruptcy. Massive projects built at taxpayer expense without a clear...
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Halloween 2015
Where to find spirits in River City -- both alcoholic and otherworldly.The 13 Most Haunted Places in Richmond From Cold Harbor to the Byrd Theatre, River City is full of ghosts.The 7 Most Haunted...
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VIDEO: Gwar Covers Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop"
It's always fun when Gwar stops by the Onion offices.The group, led by Michael Bishop on vocals, has proven they can take any song and make it their slave, as they do below with Cyndi Lauper's "She...
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The Score
-3 CBS-6 reports that a 14-year-old girl at Moody Middle School could face assault and battery charges for throwing a baby carrot that hit a teacher in the forehead. Thank goodness they stopped her...
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Pasture Co-owner Michele Jones is the New Managing Partner of Comfort
Michele Jones, whose exuberant good humor has infused the very soul of Pasture on East Grace Street, where she’s been both co-owner and general manager, is moving to Comfort at 200 W. Broad St. Jones...
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Weekly Food Notes: Coffee Dinner, Soup-er Bowl + More
Coffee and food go together like Simon and Garfunkel — ignoring the breakup, of course. I’m surprised no one has thought about this before, but fortunately for all of us, Kitchen on Cary came up with...
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After Two Years, CenterStage Names New Executive Director
And you thought finding a new Speaker of the House was tough, as my editor noted on Twitter. After two years, CenterStage announced today the hiring of Richmond native and long-time arts advocate Janet...
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Tuffy Stone and His Team Take Home the Biggest Barbecue Prize of the Year
Ribs: The meat shouldn’t fall off the bone, despite popular notions to the contrary, but it should have a silky, tender chew. But it can’t be tough either. And the brisket — when you slice it, it needs...
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Richmond Native and SNL-Head Writer Launches Sports Comedy Site
For Bryan Tucker, the funny just keeps going.A Richmond native we profiled seven years ago who rose to the top writing job at "Saturday Night Live" as co-head writer, is not only still doing that job...
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Sen. Kaine Tackles Gun Loophole
Says his legislation would have prevented gun sale in Virginia Tech and Charleston church shootings.Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is one of four U.S. senators trying to close a loophole that allows gun...
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