Archive for ‘Arts’
Preserving 'The Maltese Falcon'
Downloadable movies on your IPod, Blu-Ray Discs and DVDs delivered to your door… In an age of new media, the Library of Congress recently opened a facility in Culpeper devoted to preserving and presenting the history of film. Martha Woodroof visited the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation and filed this report.
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A Capoiera Master in Richmond
At a recent Richmond block party, Main Street looked like a scene from Sao Paolo, Brazil. Inside a circle of onlookers, two men played a Brazilian marshall art called Capoeira – a blend of theatre, dance, folklore and self-defense. Peter Solomon reports.
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Appalachian Reality
The Barter Theatre in Abingdon Virginia is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, hours from cities usually considered meccas of the arts. But each year the theatre proves the quality of locally produced work through the “Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights.” Nancy King dropped in on a rehersal and filed this report.
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'Women Folk:' A Musical Reunion
For fans of folk music’s heyday during the early 1960′s, prepare to be nostalgic. Martha Woodroof recently dropped in on a musical reunion.
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