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          <title>Bring cheer to area&#8217;s lonely seniors</title>
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We think at this time of year about children who might otherwise not receive presents, attention or a little cheer for the holidays. But they are not only ones forgotten.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Students break ground</title>
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Thursday night, dance fans can head to Piedmont Virginia Community College&#8217;s black-box Maxwell Theatre to watch some college history in the making.           ]]></description>
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          <title>It takes 2 to Tuna</title>
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Move over, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. The scary specter in Tuna, Texas, is the Christmas Phantom, who&#8217;s casting an ominous shadow over the small town&#8217;s holiday decorations.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Over the river and ... In the Round</title>
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Long before the invention of the shuffle function on CD players and iPods, performers swapped licks and songwriters traded tunes.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Cool deal on one hot show</title>
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It was 34 degrees when I woke up this morning.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Put decorations on the list</title>
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If you are going all out decorating the outside of your home, help others enjoy it.           ]]></description>
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          <title>See why belly dance has core following</title>
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If you are like me, you start looking for a new activity to carry you through those dark cold months of winter. There&#8217;s a cool performance today at Gravity Lounge that might just be the ticket to a new experience.
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          <title>Choir keeping the faith with fans</title>
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From song to song, Bongane Ncube&#8217;s duties in the Soweto Gospel Choir switch from singing to playing bass to dancing. Sometimes, he finds himself doing all three at once.
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          <title>Rein dance</title>
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Long, flowing manes tossed in the spotlight? Check. Crowd-pleasing dance moves? Check.
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          <title>Trunk show&#8217;s treasures have world on a string</title>
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No one could have blamed Nicole Noelle Sherman for not taking another step, much less 158 of them, down the side of Gianicolo Hill.
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          <title>&#8216;Familiar&#8217; take on Bond</title>
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There was a pretty big lineup of films at Regal Downtown last weekend. Barry Sisson put his locally made film, &#8220;Familiar Strangers,&#8221; head to head with the likes of &#8220;Soul Men,&#8221; &#8220;W,&#8221; &#8220;Secret Life of Bees,&#8221; &#8220;Burn After Reading,&#8221; &#8220;Zack and Miri Make a Porno,&#8221; &#8220;Rocknrolla&#8221; and the ever-popular &#8220;Beverly Hills Chihuahua.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Shaken if not stirred by movies</title>
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It doesn&#8217;t take a secret agent to know who&#8217;s slipping into movie theaters this week.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Hospice Tree lights up a path of hope</title>
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I&#8217;ve always considered Hospice a very worthy organization &#8212; tending to folks in their final hours so that they are comforted, accompanied and cared for. So I&#8217;m always happy to write about them.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Strangers&#8217; find familiar location</title>
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The verbal bombshell fell during lunch at Beverley Restaurant in Staunton&#8217;s historic district.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Society is good for  friendship</title>
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Juan Mandelbaum and Richard Herskowitz have been friends for years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Documentary tells lost tale of forced relocation</title>
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Like seashells found on barren mountain peaks, Koreans living in Kazakhstan provide evidence of a great upheaval.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>&#8216;Top Model&#8217; still stands tall after loss</title>
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Though Charlottesville&#8217;s favorite model has been eliminated from a reality TV-show, &#8220;America&#8217;s Next Top Model,&#8221; the 5-foot, 9-inch blonde bombshell hopes the exposure can jumpstart a modeling career.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>You won&#8217;t want to miss this &#8216;Day of Absence&#8217;</title>
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Satire can be a powerful tool for change. So can theater.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Women Build firms up a strong foundation</title>
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When the economy gets rocky, we all suffer. This also is the case for nonprofits. But I&#8217;ve heard a saying about when you have little, give away more and you will be wealthier.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Alienated? Let a festival expert help plan attack</title>
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It&#8217;s almost here.

Next Thursday, the stars, the directors, the producers all roll into town for the 21st annual Virginia Film Festival.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Worrell&#8217;s CD was well worth eight&#45;year wait</title>
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I have been waiting for eight years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>TBA: The Best Actors are on their way here</title>
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It&#8217;s all beginning to fall into place.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Young writers share the stage with the pros</title>
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It isn&#8217;t enough that Paul Reisler and Terri Allard just finished up their most recent songwriting workshop with a pair of concerts two weeks ago. The talented musicians have kicked it into overdrive with four events over the next nine days.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Director finds welcome home in Helms</title>
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UVa alumna returns to direct &#8220;Some Girl(s)&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Give back to firefighters at barbecue</title>
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Several years ago, during a big storm, lightning struck my house. Luckily, I was away at the time because it would have scared me half to death, but it caught fire in the roof. Again luckily, the rain was so heavy it kept it from burning quickly. Also lucky for me, my very kind neighbors called the fire department.           ]]></description>
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Kids can say the darnedest things.
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          <title>Caring for Creatures gives sentimental bonds a lasting glow</title>
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A special memento now decorates the walls of the Caring for Creatures shelter in Fluvanna County. A mosaic with 205 tiles, each designed as a memorial to beloved animal or person, was started in 2005.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Two bands lend talents to help Darfur II</title>
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I just heard about a concert that is coming up next Friday.            ]]></description>
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September packs the house           ]]></description>
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          <title>Women Connect fights isolation</title>
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We all know to some extent that we need other people, but not having a connection with others is actually a real problem which can negatively impact your health. The problem is called social isolation, and research shows the incidences are increasing.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Morris man writes a new family chapter</title>
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Way back in the day &#8212; the late &#8217;90s to be exact &#8212; there was a young man who wrote about the music scene here in Charlottesville.            ]]></description>
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It must be exciting to fork out $100 and then come away with a big-time motorcycle signed by a very famous rock band.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Full steed ahead: Stallions</title>
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For four centuries, they&#8217;ve dedicated their lives to demanding training to perfect their synchronized precision and magnificent leaps. And, no, we&#8217;re not talking about Olympic athletes.           ]]></description>
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Is anyone else tired?           ]]></description>
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Sure, you expect to hear plenty of whining and squawking when students return to school after a refreshing but addictive summer vacation. You just don&#8217;t want it coming out of your saxophone because you neglected to practice.            ]]></description>
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          <title>PVCC marking first decade of Dickinson</title>
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When Anne Megibow first started teaching dance to Piedmont Virginia Community College students three decades ago, her classes met in the basement of St. Mark Lutheran Church. Since then, she has seen the dance program &#8212; and the college&#8217;s fine arts offerings &#8212; grow by leaps and bounds.           ]]></description>
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Most of us know that there is a problem with health care &#8212; particularly the cost and availability of adequate coverage. However, the facts are elusive, and some of us feel helpless about what to do about the situation.           ]]></description>
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There&#8217;s still time to enter the Greene County Fair&#8217;s demolition derby, but you can&#8217;t be a &#8220;possum.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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The largest all-women&#8217;s race in Virginia raised $230,000 last year for the University of Virginia Cancer Center Breast Care Program. This year organizers have increased the goal to $300,000.            ]]></description>
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When Margie Shreve heard they needed help planning the Survivor Saturday for the Charlottesville Women&#8217;s Four Miler Training Program, she stepped up, knowing she had found her niche.           ]]></description>
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The Albemarle County Fair is back at the fairgrounds in North Garden through Sunday, so let&#8217;s start by answering the question callers most frequently ask:           ]]></description>
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If memory serves, a varietal is a wine made of mainly one variety of grape.           ]]></description>
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Go to lunch and help raise money in the fight against breast cancer.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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Willie Nelson is on the road again. At 75, the Texas outlaw country legend is still burning biodiesel on the highways of America &#8212; touring with reckless abandon.           ]]></description>
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Easters in July.           ]]></description>
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Stephanie Rooker is coming home. Temporarily.           ]]></description>
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In &#8220;Forever Plaid,&#8217;&#8217; Jinx, Smudge, Sparky and Frankie get the chance to come back for a day. Thanks to Heritage Theatre Festival fans, they get to come back for almost three weeks.           ]]></description>
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Once upon a time I was backpacking across Europe. When I landed in Paris I was hot, tired and thirsty.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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A Ruckersville family had a little extra fun on vacation &#8212; literally.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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One-man shows are risky business. Not only are you putting all of your eggs in one basket (if your one man sucks, the whole thing falls apart), but you&#8217;re automatically limiting your range too &#8212; there are lots of things any given person just cannot do alone.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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One man will share his musings about how tough it is to make basic human connections amid high-tech weapons of mass distraction.           ]]></description>
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Pat Welch had one of the most memorable roles in Hollywood.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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Put on your favorite costume for the Artisans Night Gala on Saturday night at Al Hamraa Restaurant.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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Kluge-Ruhe hosts a lecture tonight
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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Get ready, theater fans: A summer favorite is back with a new name, a new parking garage and its biggest musical to date.
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Shadow thin and too weak to walk, the emaciated man crawled on all fours across the hardpan earth.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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They are poling.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s the perfect setting - mountains as a backdrop, expansive green fields, a spacious building with a wide, wraparound porch. It only started four years ago, but the Pink Ribbon Polo Cup has become an anticipated event in June.           ]]></description>
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Ride your bike along the scenic countryside and help out scores of people in the Blue Ridge who suffer from multiple sclerosis, a crippling disease of the central nervous system.           ]]></description>
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Every manner of dog &#8212; from Akitas to Yorkies &#8212; will be strutting its stuff at Foxfield&#8217;s steeplechase course on Garth Road this weekend.           ]]></description>
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No way am I going to call them &#8220;stars.&#8221;            ]]></description>
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The forested beauty along Skyline Drive attracts millions of admirers every year.           ]]></description>
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Lance Brenner had a great idea.           ]]></description>
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Barbara Wright and her husband, William, started a Civil War Round Table in Charlottesville because they had been in one in Los Angeles, and when they moved here from California, they were surprised to find out there was no such Civil War discussion group in the area.           ]]></description>
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You can&#8217;t have grown up in Staunton and not know about the Statler Brothers.           ]]></description>
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The Shelter for Help in Emergency has been a staple in the Charlottesville area for the past 18 years, though you may not know where it is located &#8212; a protection for the abused who seek its shelter.            ]]></description>
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A couple of months ago, at the age of 106, Mollie Mae Wood put on her walking shoes and made a suggestion to her 84-year-old daughter.           ]]></description>
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In the spring of 2003, three young aspiring filmmakers went off to Africa in search of a story.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s a fun way to enjoy Mother&#8217;s Day weekend, get outside for some fresh air, and help a good cause &#8212; all at once.
Women Build of Habitat for Humanity of Charlottesville is holding its second Women Build Hike for Habitat. 
You can choose from among eight hikes &#8212; from easy and moderate to the more strenuous. The hikes take place at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.           ]]></description>
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Phenomenal.
Outrageous.
Raucous.
Marvelous.
No matter how you remember your prom, chances are it didn&#8217;t hold a sequined candle to the all-night affair planned in Charlottesville on Saturday night.
So what if it&#8217;s tomorrow night? There is plenty of time to primp.           ]]></description>
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It&#8217;s an enticing concept &#8212; Thanksgiving in Spring &#8212; complete with the traditional dinner of turkey and the fixings, plus a couple other dishes (such as smoked meats) added in for good measure.
The event belongs to On Our Own of Charlottesville, a non-profit peer-run organization that helps mental health consumers (as they prefer to define themselves). The Thanksgiving dinner is the organization&#8217;s main fund-raiser and will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church.            ]]></description>
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The University Theater was still showing movies on the Corner in 1989.
None, however, was more exciting, for me, than the 1962 classic that flickered across the screen at 4 in the afternoon on Nov. 3.
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If you are one of those who doesn&#8217;t know it, Charlottesville is a place for the arts.
And those in the know are trying to show it by securing some recognition for outstanding artists and supporters.
The Governor&#8217;s Awards for the Arts 2008 program is looking for a few good candidates and some real interest from the community in an awards program that is a bit stingy with its awards. The Governor&#8217;s Arts Awards have only gone out three times before in the past couple of decades.           ]]></description>
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There is another local filmmaker in the news.&nbsp;   Just got word that Brian Wimer is in the running for honors at the Virginia Film Competition.
Just got word that there is a Virginia Film Competition.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a new competition,&#8221; said Kathryn Stephens, industry relations manager for the Virginia Film Office. &#8220;We have held the Virginia Screenwriters Competition for 20 years now, and we have noticed that there has been a surge in independent filmmaking, not only in Virginia, but across the U.S.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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Producer Mark Johnson has won four Academy Awards, including an Oscar for one of my favorite films, &#8220;Rain Man.&#8221;
Paul Wagner owns another for his documentary film work. You might have seen his latest last month at the Paramount, &#8220;Absolutely Irish.&#8221;
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:13:01 EST</pubDate>
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Let&#8217;s put the rumors to rest.
&nbsp;  Ash Lawn Opera will be at Ash Lawn 
... at least this year.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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There&#8217;s a rising star in our midst.
&nbsp;  It just took a little out-of-town recognition for us to take notice.
Oh, Laura Wortman and her fiance, Kagey Parrish, don&#8217;t have a CD &#8212; yet. (They are planning on heading into a studio in the next couple of weeks to lay down a few tracks.) But they do own a national title.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:35:01 EST</pubDate>
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Don&#8217;t throw this newspaper section away.&nbsp; (If you are reading this on the Internet, I&#8217;m talking about Friday&#8217;s Extra section.)&nbsp; Put it in a safe place and bring it with you Wednesday night, because it is the key to getting some cool free stuff.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:23:01 EST</pubDate>
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When I was, oh, so young I watched &#8220;Toby Tyler&#8221; and dreamed of running off to join the circus so I could wear blue tights, ride horses and have a chimpanzee as my best friend.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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I would love to go see Van Halen or Cirque du Soleil or a host of other events scattered throughout this week&#8217;s playbill.&nbsp; But there is that dollar issue.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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The plan was to clear out some of the books in my library. Four shelves were overloaded and the stacks on the floor were beyond the teetering point. I got a box and set out to cull my collection.&nbsp; There was a stack by Phyllis A. Whitney.&nbsp;  Did I really need that many?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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A name like the Main Event can&#8217;t help but be intriguing.&nbsp; Furthermore, the goal is a good one - supporting the University of Virginia Children&#8217;s Hospital, specifically the UVa Children&#8217;s Fitness Clinic. This signature event is taking place at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Abbott Center at the Darden School.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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