January 28, 2012
by F.T. Rea Once I began to understand more fully what an opportunity my job offered, I wanted the Biograph Thea ...
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December 28, 2011
Excerpts of Biograph Times: My first good look at what was to become the Biograph Theatre was in July of 1971. Ha ...
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November 30, 2011
On August 26, 1982 Color Radio (or Channel 36) began beaming its signal, via Continental Cablevision’s cable TV ho ...
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November 2, 2011
The rare poster above for a gig staged one month after Woodstock was silkscreened by then-VCU art student Chuck W ...
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September 13, 2011
My first sense of it was as a noise. It sounded like my upstairs neighbor’s washing machine had the most unbalanc ...
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May 31, 2011
Built by art students, on May 30, 1989, the Goddess of Democracy was erected in Tiananmen Square as a symbol o ...
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May 4, 2011
May 9, 1970 The blistering heat added to the growing sense in the air that anything could happen. Before the pro ...
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April 18, 2011
With the storms that passed through this area over the weekend, this piece about the aftermath of a storm I wrote fo ...
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February 22, 2011
Fiction by F.T. Rea “Com’ere Bustah,” the old coot barked gruffly. Slouched on a bench of stone and wood, ...
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February 14, 2011
"…Now once more the belt is tight and we summon the proper expression of horror as we look back at our wasted yo ...
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The rare poster above for a gig staged one month after Woodstock was silkscreened by then-VCU art student Chuck Wrenn in 1969. Eventually, the kid pictured on guitar, who was the principle performer in the band — its name was changed soon after this poster was made — went on to become a Rock ‘n’ Roll hall-of-famer. Name him.
