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First Fridays Music Walk
First Fridays have gotten to be as much about music as visual art and you can imagine how that pleases me. In between gallery hopping, there’s music to be found for all kinds of tastes.After hearing from several people that tonight was going to be a li…
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Acacia Awesomeness al Fresco
It’s been over three months since Acacia had done one of their “too good to be true” bagged lunches, so I didn’t even have to think about it for a nanosecond before reserving two bags, one for me and one for a friend for today’s offering. Scuffletown P…
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The Real Story, Part 2
Boy, what kind of a lame blogger purporting to “go on and on” writes such a vague and abbreviated post as I did last night? I’ve got no excuse other than how incredibly busy I was from the second I got up yesterday until I got home from Balliceaux at 1…
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Invisible Sonnet
Among the highlights:The reading: “This is how you might resume where you left off.”The art opening: Herd Study (cows reminiscent of an outdoor cafe) and Work Crew (oh, the scribble)The former neighbor/blogger pioneer at Avalon: Blog talk, tequila and …
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BLTs and Fishnets
With all kinds of stuff going on this morning and afternoon, I had limited time for lunch, so I ducked into Lamplighter for a quick sandwich. And wouldn’t you just know I’d get sucked in by the art on the walls?It took me forever to decide on a sandwic…
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What If I Stayed In?
The plan was to finally give Andrew exactly what he wanted. My friend has told me on more than one occasion that he wants to wake up one day and look at my blog only to find a post that says, “I didn’t do anything.”But I have to eat, so I met a friend …
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When Girls Triumph Over Bad Boys
Sometimes I get even more than I plan for and it makes for an unexpectedly delightful outcome. I had thought I was going to a wine tasting and pairing tonight, but it ended up being the celebration of good over evil.I had talked a friend into attending…
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Dog Day Afternoon
We have a new way of being awakened in Jackson Ward and it’s not about the noise, although that is excessive. No, it’s the vibrating bed and it takes an awful lot to shake the foundation of an 1876 house hard enough to rattle the floorboards on the sec…
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Lessons in Punk, Cheesiness and IEDs
I listened to a punk rock icon talk about the good old days, I saw quite possibly the worst movie of my life and I met a guy whose body had been shattered by an IED in Iraq. I guess I’ll start at the beginning.Tesco Vee, former lead singer of the Meatm…
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No Smacking Allowed
With VCU back in session and my later walking time, it’s a whole new ballgame on Grace Street, as I discovered today. Honestly, I practically had to dodge the masses while out walking this morning.A guy approached me, pulling out his earbuds as he got …
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An Evening in Four Parts
Three screens. Two couple dates. Three live bands. Five dishes. Three rooms at capacity. One dessert. One hell of a good time.Earlier in the week, a friend had offered me a ticket to a documentary screening today. I’d declined, saying I was already tri…
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Music for a Cause
“Fuck BP,” toasted Ilad’s lead singer Clifton, summing up tonight’s Gulf Leak Benefit at the Camel (or maybe just wanting to do a shot). The four-band bill provided a lot of entertainment for a minimum donation of five dollars, which benefited the Gulf…
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Reading to an Omnivore
Because I’m so shallow I need the validation of others, I was hugely gratified to go to a fiction reading at Chop Suey Books and see every chair taken. Even better, additional chairs had to be brought in. Who would have guessed that so many people othe…
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Everybody’s Got a Baby But Me
The last thing I was expecting to discover at the opening of the new Virginia Historical Society exhibit was the identity of the father of heavy metal. Just goes to prove the beauty of the unexpected.Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly in the Com…
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Don’t Check Me for Ticks
Just when I’m ready to get discouraged about doing so much alone, I have an evening where I run into friends all night long. It may not be as good as a partner’s company, but it was great to have the unexpected conversation almost everywhere I went.And…
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Boy Bar/Girl Bar
You won’t often find me at Penny Lane Pub, soured as I was by a night of watching really bad karaoke there last fall. And then there’s that male-only crowd that sits on the patio assessing each new customer as if they were grading meat.But Prabir and c…
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Eat! Look! Stay Away!
Do people who walk on treadmills realize the great stuff they miss by not hitting the streets?Like a guy waiting at the bus stop wearing a t-shirt that instructed: “Take your vitamin every day. It’s called a STEAK!” Can’t you just hear the self-righteo…
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Just Don’t Call Me Erin
My reservation for one was awaiting me when I arrived for Acacia’s Wines of the Northwest dinner tonight. The bar, like the restaurant, was crowded, but my single place setting sat waiting for me amongst the crowd, welcoming this single diner.I greeted…
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Speak My Name in Whispers
I got called out for truancy again. Last month I had missed the Listening Room because I’d gone to see music played for Tom & Jerry cartoons, here. I had no idea that my absence had been noted until this past Saturday when it came up while talking …
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Formerly Clueless About Coffee
There must have been something compelling about the subject of today’s book talk at the Library of Virginia, because it was nearly a full house.Author Bryant Simon’s book Everything But the Coffee: Learning About America from Starbucks appealed to me b…
