Fan Tales

May 7, 2010

VHS class: Richmond’s Old West End

The following information was provided by Jennifer M. Guild with the Virginia Historical Society: Richmond's Old West ...

May 4, 2010

Living in the moment: May 1970

May 9, 1970 The blistering heat added to the growing sense in the air that anything could happen. Before the progra ...

February 11, 2010

Biograph Times: The Devils & the Details

My first good look at what was to become the Biograph Theatre was in July of 1971. Having gotten a tip from a friend the ...

January 18, 2010

Eric E: Jukebox of Americana

Eric E. Stanley, known as "Eric E" to his fans and "Rick" to some of his friends, died in 2003. The year before Rick ...

January 12, 2010

Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe videos (1999)

The Texas-Wisconsin Border Café was a popular Fan District watering hole, a quirky saloon that served Tequila, Pabst Bl ...

November 29, 2009

City’s anti-show biz history

Richmond's decades-long campaign to stifle show biz was documented in this article, which was printed in the Richmond Ne ...

November 20, 2009

April 27, 1974: Riot at City Stadium

On Saturday afternoon William & Mary and Richmond will play what will likely be the last college football game at UR ...

November 12, 2009

Unplugged, the Day After

With all the rain we've had, this piece I wrote for STYLE Weekly in 2003 seems appropriate. It is about the morning ...

November 10, 2009

A Sign of the Time

One summer afternoon in the mid-1970s, I was walking about 30 yards behind a guy heading east on the 800 block of We ...

September 28, 2009

Art: What it is

In a Richmond, Virginia courtroom in November of 1982 I witnessed an entertaining scene in which an age-old question -- ...

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