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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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