November 12, 2009
With all the rain we've had, this piece I wrote for STYLE Weekly in 2003 seems appropriate. It is about the morning ...
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November 10, 2009
One summer afternoon in the mid-1970s, I was walking about 30 yards behind a guy heading east on the 800 block of We ...
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September 28, 2009
In a Richmond, Virginia courtroom in November of 1982 I witnessed an entertaining scene in which an age-old question -- ...
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September 24, 2009
Here's an unexpected flashback: WTVR-6 has posted a news report on the 1984 campaign for the 5th District seat on City ...
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August 7, 2009
What did Monroe Park look like in 1896, in the days when when trains ran down Belvidere St.? Click here to see at the ...
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July 31, 2009
On August 26, 1982 Color Radio (or Channel 36) began beaming its signal, via Continental Cablevision’s cable TV ho ...
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July 5, 2009
In the seventh grade a friend named Buddy showed me how to fling a quarter into the air so it would land heads-up ev ...
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July 2, 2009
Rebus from a series in SLANT (1991) Here's a rare blast from the past: Fan Free Funnies; click here to visit the home ...
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June 15, 2009
"…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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June 1, 2009
"Detached" is a collection of short stories, all with Rocsoe Swift as the protagonist. The stories weave in popular ...
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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.
