When the ball left the free-throw shooter’s hands it scored VCU’s 59th point; the Rams defeated the Hampton Pirates on Saturday night by a score of 59-to-54. Name the shooter.
Fan Tales
April 5, 2008
Most-missed Fan restaurants
Grace Place ad in SLANT (circa 1991) In a discussion this afternoon at Chiocca’s, as the Mets vs. Braves game playe ...
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February 19, 2008
Biograph Archives
The Biograph Archives is a website devoted to documenting the run of the Biograph Theatre at 814 W. Grace St. in Richmon ...
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February 11, 2008
Biograph Times: The Devils & the Details
Note: February 11 is a special date for me; here is why: My first good look at what was to become Richmond's vers ...
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January 30, 2008
Topless a-go-go in the Fan
When the doorway into show business suddenly opened for me I entered gladly. At the time I had a job selling janitor ...
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December 27, 2007
Lois chokes on a gumdrop
The staff art show that hung during the Biograph Theatre's second anniversary party on Feb. 11, 1974 included variou ...
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November 29, 2007
Detached
In the early '80s I began writing a story I called "Central Time." Originally, it was written in the first person to rec ...
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Soble’s Blue Monday Jam
Note: A version of this piece was first published by Richmond.com. on Jan 26, 2000. On the left is Artie Probst, who ...
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November 21, 2007
Cool’s Stretch
The prototype was assembled during a lull in seventh grade shop class. After tying some 15 rubber bands together to ...
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November 9, 2007
Murder spree ended Nov. 8, 1992
It has been 15 years since Richmonders were shocked to read in the newspaper that Lynwood Drake III, who went to Thomas ...
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October 30, 2007
Legendary beat, Lester Blackiston, dies
Lester Blackiston, poet, inventor, art collector and cantankerous cuss died Sunday. From Bill McKelway's o ...
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