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Rams trounce Tribe

Sophomore Joey Rodriguez made good on six-of-seven three-pointers and finished with a career-high 20 points to spur Virginia Commonwealth University to a 66-50 victory over William. & Mary Saturday at Kaplan Arena. Rodriguez, a 5-10 guard, knocked down three of three treys in the second half, when the Rams were on a 30-8 run to pull [...]

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December 6, 2008

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Street Closures for Grand Illumination, Parade

The Richmond Police Department asks motorists and citizens to be mindful of street closings today for the Grand Illumination and tomorrow for the Ukrops/Supervalu Parade. Drivers need to be patient and plan alternate routes around the areas. In preparation for the Grand Illumination, East 10th Street between Cary Street and Canal Street will be closed [...]

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December 5, 2008

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Double Feature at Visual Arts Center

Join the Richmond Moving Image Co-op on Fri., Dec. 5 at 7 p.m for the final program in our four month documentary film series, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Films about Women and War, co-presented by the Visual Arts Center. The film series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits [...]

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December 5, 2008

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Rams bust Broncos

VCU’s Joey Rodriguez (in white) scored 17 points “We’re a better basketball team than we were a week ago,” said VCU men’s basketball head coach Anthony Grant. On Thursday night, with a few spurts of dazzling offense, while applying a steady aggressive defense for most part, VCU defeated Western Michigan before 4,487 at the Siegel Center: [...]

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December 4, 2008

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howirichmond: About getting around town

Interested in modern ideas about transportation? Mass transit? Bicycling? You-name-it? How about applying such brainstorming to Richmond? To read about howirichmond in STYLE Weekly click here. Then check out howirichmond by clicking here.

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December 3, 2008

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RMIC’s 6th Italian Fest

Combine classic and groundbreaking Italian films with classic and mouthwatering Italian food to experience a feast for the all the senses. The Richmond Moving Image Coop’s Sixth Italian Film and Food Festival is going to unfold at Plant Zero Art [...]

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December 3, 2008

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Women’s hoops: UR 56, VCU 48

Sometimes the hoop seems as big as the ocean, other times it’s smaller than a coffee can. Unfortunately for the Virginia Commonwealth University women’s basketball it was the latter as the Rams suffered a tough shooting night and dropped a 56-48 decision to the Spiders of the University of Richmond in a battle for city bragging [...]

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December 3, 2008

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New VMFA exhibit: ‘Under a Virginia Sky’

“Yonder” is a 2008 oil-on-board work by Steven Walker. (Photo by Travis Fullerton, © 2008 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) “Under a Virginia Sky: Paintings by [...]

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December 3, 2008

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Where’s the General’s sword?

Larry Hall’s Time Capsule in today’s RT-D is set in Monroe Park; it’s about Gen. William Carter Wickham’s lost sword. When the drape was removed to reveal Wickham’s likeness, cheers went up. The next day’s Times described the 7-foot figure as “the best quality” bronze. “It represents Gen. Wickham in the full uniform of a Confederate brigadier [...]

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December 3, 2008

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Blood Isn’t Just Red

The piece that follows was published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on its May 1, 1999 OpEd Page. The point it makes about the long-term effects of repeated violent images on television still seems apt to me. Blood Isn’t Just Red by F.T. Rea Television has dominated the American cultural landscape for the past 50 years. A boon [...]

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December 2, 2008

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