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  • The Stretch

    Originally published by STYLE Weekly in October of 1999

    With the turning of the leaves, The Fan District of Richmond, Va., will again be transformed into a living impressionistic cityscape. As they always do, the season’s wistful breezes will facilitate reflection.

    All of which leads to [...]

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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:31pm EST

  • Crumb and Mouly in SF video



    Last month I had the pleasure of attending the Crumb/Mouly gabfest at the Carpenter Theater. It was my first time inside the newly renovated theater. As far as what I thought of the new face on what was the old Loew's, it looked nice but I'll have to [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:15pm EST

  • Most controversial 'zine covers

    Webdesigner Depot has an interesting post up with 30 American magazine covers it calls "the most controversial of all-time." I'm sure I bought at least five of the magazines when they came out (maybe still have a couple of them) and I remember about half of them.

    Click [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:55am EST

  • Groh's parting poem

    Here's a bizarre twist to the postgame scene that followed the drubbing head coach Al Groh's Virginia Cavaliers absorbed from their arch-rival (Va. Tech 42, UVa 13) today at Scott Stadium. Virginia finished its season, losing six games in a row, to establish a 3-9 record for the season.

    [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:58pm EST

  • Splattergate

    In 1998, with impeachment in the air and the Clinton administration being hobbled by the investigation of the nature of the president’s relationships with various women -- most notoriously, Monica Lewinsky -- eventually, I felt called upon to lampoon the scandal. So I created a series [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:16pm EST

  • Wachapreague Reflection

    Wachapreague Reflection
    (August 1977) [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:56pm EST

  • Kaine on rights restoration

    Tim Kaine's time as the Commonwealth of Virginia's chief executive is winding down and this morning on his WTOP radio show he had a message for Virginians who have old felony convictions.
    Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who leaves office in January, today encouraged people with nonviolent felony convictions who have [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:13am EST

  • 80 years at UR Stadium

    At Richmond.com there’s a story up about Richmond beating Wm. & Mary on Saturday (13-10) that I wrote; the piece also looks at some of the colorful history of UR Stadium. For instance:

    The advance notices for the two-day rock festival announced it would be a “No Hassles” event, [...]

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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:47pm EST

  • Black Knights of Health Care Reform



    You've got to give it to them, the shameless shills for the health insurance industry are delivering on their end of a deal with the devil. They are going to resist health care reform as long as they have the capacity to do so.

    Like some of' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:43pm EST

  • Flying disc news: Hoppers trounce Nichs

    Hoppers captain Jack Richardson with the Easy Rider Cup in hand

    The group of disc golfers (some of us still call the game Frisbee-golf) that I've been a part of since the mid-1970s is known as the GRFGA. We play on unmarked object' [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:15am EST

  • Cat People

    In its day RKO was known for its ability to produce well-crafted, sometimes artsy or offbeat features using a smaller budget than the other so-called major studios. Nonetheless, it was almost always in trouble, financially.
    Founded in 1929, RKO stopped making movies in 1953 and eventually [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:04am EST

  • SLANTblog Video Report No. 1



    SLANTblog's Video Report No. 1 looks at two big games on one Saturday in Richmond -- Wm. & Mary vs. Richmond (football) and Oklahoma vs. VCU (basketball). Richmond won 13-10. VCU won 82-69. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:07pm EST

  • Still Crazy



    The avalanche of happy birthday wishes I received yesterday via Facebook, and otherwise, calls for an answer. After saying "thanks," my cousin Ray will supply the rest. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:02pm EST

  • Psalm 109 as a weapon

    Some of my readers aren't old enough to remember when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Well, I am. Here's something most of the TV documentaries don't dwell on -- some people openly expressed their pleasure that Kennedy was dead.

    And, before Nov. 22, 1963 there were plenty' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:46pm EST

  • Would we be safer with an atheist president?

    SLANT's spokesdog, Rebus, wonders: All other considerations equal, would it be safer for us to have an atheist president with his finger on the button -- nuclear oblivion! -- than to have a Christian president, who truly believes in an afterlife? Wouldn't an atheist president, who' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:50pm EST

  • GOP talking points

    -- Words and photo by F.T. Rea
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:41am EST

  • VCU men's basketball

    VCU basketball fans can follow the Rams' 2009/10 season at the Fan District Hub.

    Click here for a report on VCU's first regular season game, a win over Bethune-Cookman at the Siegel Center.

    Click here for CAA Monday Notes.' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:37pm EST

  • Head on a Pole Solution

    Republicans are having a good time with their anti-tax tea parties. It has even brought out the creative side of some right-wingers, as they have staged various stunts to demonstrate their contempt for certain Democrats and what they see as excessive government spending, in general.

    While this staging-stunts strategy [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:16pm EST

  • What's wrong with justice in Manhattan?

    Other than the fact that the Bush administration chose not to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the supposed mastermind of 9/11 -- in a courtroom in New York, what is wrong with it?

    Yes, I understand that many Republicans automatically backed whatever the previous president did during his time [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:52am EST

  • Jumping the gun, again

    Jumping the gun, to turn the Ft. Hood shootings into a political issue, is a shameless game. It's also a dangerous game -- it could get more people killed.

    With much of what will eventually be known about the background and crimes of the shooter -- Major Nidal Hasan,' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:28pm EST

  • The Cheaters

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    In 1916 the Richmond Light Infantry Blues were dispatched to Brownsville, Texas to watch over the border and chase Pancho Villa. There they were converted to a cavalry unit. Following that campaign, in 1917, the Blues were sent to Fort McClellan, located in the [...]

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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:05pm EST

  • Richmond's Anti-Show Biz Ways

    When and why did the City of Richmond turn against show business?

    In the middle of the 20th century, officialdom in Virginia’s capital city used its powers to make it more difficult to offer entertainment to the public for profit. Laws and taxes were the tools. The unabashed [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:55am EST

  • Cross-Eyed Mona

    Fiction by F.T. Rea

    September 21, 1977: The Luis Bunuel double feature playing at the Fan City Cinema drew a sparse but appreciative crowd. In the lobby, just before the nine-thirty show got underway, manager Roscoe Swift said to a pair of regular customers who [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:35pm EST

  • About life and death

    The Commonwealth of Virginia is going to use what is its greatest power tonight. At 9 p.m., inside the walls of Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, John A. Muhammad, 48, will be put to death.
    Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 2:08pm EST

  • Buzz Montsinger's CD release party

    The latest from my friend Buzz Montsinger (pictured above), who is having a CD Release party. Here is a tidbit from his web site:

    The Richmond Heart & Soul Revue is a concept that began in the heart and soul of Buzz Montsinger and [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:41pm EST

  • Fancy Melons

    Fiction by F. T. Rea

    “Com’ere Bustah,” the old coot barked gruffly.

    Slouched on a bench of stone and wood, the man wore an oversized pea coat and a dark blue knit cap. Most noticeable were his pale swollen ankles, showing between high-water plaid [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:07am EST

  • Guerilla Art Show 3.1


    The Guerilla Art Show 3.1 will happen for three hours in Byrd Park on Sunday, November 15, between the hours of noon and 3 p.m.

    The last show of this sort was in September. This next show will give everyone a chance to pick [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:06pm EST

  • Central Time

    Fiction by F. T. Rea

    August 16, 1966: Roscoe Swift sat alone in a day car slowly rattling its way into Central Station. The solitary sailor had spent the last hour turning the glossy pages of Playboy and contemplating infinity. As the train lurched he [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:03am EST

  • The Freelancer's Worth

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    Fiction By F.T. Rea

    Jan. 24, 1991: Bright sunlight lit up the thin coating of freezing rain that had painted the city the evening before. In the crisp air, Roscoe Swift, a slender middle-aged man, a freelance artist/writer, walked at a careful but purposeful [...]

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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:15pm EST

  • Elephant Stampede

    My quick-draw analysis of the election results is up at Richmond.com.
    Former Attorney General Robert F. "Bob" McDonnell, a calm, hard-line conservative Republican from Virginia Beach, clobbered his earnest but vaguely moderate Democratic opponent from Bath County, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, by 18 percentage points. Click here to [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:37am EST

  • SLANTblog election guide

    Links to pieces that I've written about this season's politics and elections, as they matter to Richmonders, are below:

    "Local Elections Tuesday" (Nov. 2) at Richmond.com -- click here.

    "Democrats, Over Easy" (Nov. 1) at SLANTblog -- click here.

    "Deeds vs. McDonnell: The Rematch" (Oct. [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 2:35pm EST

  • The Last Customer's Bag

    When a spell of rapid heartbeat commences, experience has taught me to go into a controlled deep breathing mode, to try to quell it as early as possible. Long, slow, deep-breathing, with my stomach muscles held taut, can usually allay the blood-rush demon.

    Most of the time that technique [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:43pm EST

  • Democrats, Over Easy

    Unless one wants to blow off a heap of opinion polls, it appears likely Democrats in Virginia are going to get a real thumping on Tuesday.

    It would be easy to dwell on what a disappointment Creigh Deeds’ campaign has been, with its awkwardness and rather negative-toned strategy. The [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:05pm EST

  • How Margot Kidder made my day

    The movie business changed during the summer of 1975. A new style of creating, promoting and exhibiting feature films was established when “Jaws” opened in 465 theaters, coast-to-coast, and became a box office smash.

    Typically, in those days, major releases opened initially in the most popular movie houses in [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 3:56pm EST
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