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    <title>Entertainment News for Richmond Times-Dispatch</title>
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          <title>Dee Dee Renee and TT Torrez show why they&#8217;re tops</title>
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In a glass-enclosed space the size of a New York hotel room&#8212;which is to say, twice the size of a typical radio studio&#8212;TT Torrez works the phones, a blur of jangling bracelets and curly dark hair. &#8220;All right, baby girl, thanks for calling&#8230;            ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Ragtime&#8217; revival will open Nov. 15</title>
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Get ready for the return of &#8220;Ragtime.&#8220; A revival of the ambitious musical adapted from E.L. Doctorow&#8217;s epic novel of early 20th-century America will open Nov. 15 on Broadway, producer Kevin McCollum announced Wednesday. Previews begin Oct. 23 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The $8 million production, directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, will feature a cast of more than 40 actors and an orchestra of more than two dozen musicians. Casting will be announced.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fiction review: East of the Sun</title>
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Sometimes, a sprawling historical novel is a perfect ticket to a pleasant escape. A gripping story, engaging characters and descriptions of other times and other places can entertain and educate. And that&#8217;s just what Julia Gregson serves up in &#8220;East of the Sun.&#8220; As the story begins in London in 1928, 20-something Viva Holloway, a penniless orphan and an aspiring writer, has been hired to chaperone three younger people on their voyage to India. Viva has received word from a woman in Simla that a trunk belonging to Viva&#8217;s late parents has been found, and that&#8217;s all Viva needs to flee her humdrum life in England, a place she has never felt at home. Both her parents and her sister died in India, and the subcontinent calls to her.           ]]></description>
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          <title>11th season of &#8216;Big Brother&#8217; set</title>
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The contestants on the 11th season of &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; include a surfer, neuroscientist, &#8220;World of Warcraft&#8221; gamer and mixed martial arts fighter. As guests in a two-story house with dozens of video cameras, they will compete for the CBS reality show&#8217;s $500,000 grand prize. The show premieres Thursday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Irreverent &#8216;Midsummer&#8217; is so hilarious it hurts</title>
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One-line review: I laughed so hard at Richmond Shakespeare&#8217;s new production of &#8220;A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream&#8221; that I got a headache. The perennial favorite of Richmond Shakespeare and the Shakespeare canon itself is back for a short run at gorgeous Agecroft Hall. Andrew Hamm directs this time, pushing the comedy and mayhem way past any previous boundaries of taste, propriety, reverence for the Bard and other annoyances.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Auditions</title>
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The Richmond Symphony Chorus will have auditions for prospective members on Aug. 18 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Candidates must submit applications by Friday to be considered for an audition. For details or to obtain an application, call (804) 788-4717, ext. 109, or visit http://www.richmondsymphony.com. CHRISTMAS TOWN: A BUSCH GARDENS CELEBRATION&#8212;Busch Gardens will hold a special Santa audition Thursday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Office Rehearsal Hall of the Entertainment Building for its newest attraction, debuting in November. All performers should come in custom to audition.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Miss Conduct&#8217;s Mind Over Manners: Master the Slippery Rules of Modern Ethics</title>
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Navigating one&#8217;s way in contemporary society is no longer merely a question of knowing which fork to use. Rather, as Robin Abrahams persuasively reports in &#8220;Miss Conduct&#8217;s Mind over Manners,&#8220; it is knowing how to cope with &#8220;the dilemmas that live in the gray area between ethics and protocol.&#8220; Abrahams, who has a doctorate in psychology, is the &#8220;Miss Conduct&#8221; columnist for the Boston Globe Magazine. Witty as well as perceptive, she keeps the tone agreeably light as she dispenses practical advice on social interaction in an increasingly diverse and fragmented society.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Nonfiction review: The Wild Marsh</title>
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Readers hoping Rick Bass&#8217; new work of nonfiction, &#8220;The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana,&#8220; would advocate on behalf of his beloved Yaak Valley will have to be satisfied with a few paragraphs that appear on Page 5. &#8220;I have spent the bulk of my adult life advocating for the permanent protection of these wilder, farther places in the Yaak through the congressional designation of wilderness areas,&#8220; Bass writes. &#8220;But right here, right now, is&#8212;in this book&#8212;the only time you&#8217;ll hear me carry on about any of that.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>STILL GOING</title>
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Ongoing productions on area stages Barksdale Theatre-Willow Lawn, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, 282-2620. &#8220;Driving Miss Daisy,&#8220; $35-$38. Through Aug. 2. Carpenter Science Theatre Company, Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St., 864-1400. &#8220;Amazing Tales of Sharks,&#8220; included in museum admission of $9-$10. Through Aug. 16. Empire Theatre, 114 W. Broad St., 282-2620. Barksdale Theatre&#8217;s production of &#8220;Thoroughly Modern Millie,&#8220; $37-$40. Through Aug. 2.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CALENDAR</title>
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TODAY Book Swap&#8212;Exchange of books and/or conversation, 3-5 p.m. at Book People, 536 Granite Ave. Free. 288-4346.&nbsp; THURSDAY &#8220;The Lie&#8221; by O.H. Bennett&#8212;Book talk and signing, 6:30 p.m. at Fountain Bookstore, 1312 E. Cary St. 788-1594.&nbsp; FRIDAY &#8220;Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales&#8221; and &#8220;Haunted Richmond&#8221; by Pamela K. Kinney&#8212;Book signing, 8 p.m. at Minerva Books and Caf&#233;, 233 Barstow Alley, Petersburg. 732-2440.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Daily meditation on death becomes a celebration of creative life</title>
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It all started with an orange piece of paper and a pair of scissors. It grew into an artistic obsession, an award-winning blog with an international following, a book, speaking engagements, solo art shows, a gig on &#8220;The Martha Stewart Show,&#8220; and merchandising opportunities. The day was June 4, 2007. Sitting in his office, local artist/activist Noah Scalin acted on a casual idea he&#8217;d had a couple of days earlier. He grabbed some scissors, cut a skull into a piece of paper and gave birth to a project based on death. For an entire year, he decided, he would create a skull a day.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dee Dee Renee and TT Torrez show why they&#8217;re tops</title>
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In a glass-enclosed space the size of a New York hotel room&#8212;which is to say, twice the size of a typical radio studio&#8212;TT Torrez works the phones, a blur of jangling bracelets and curly dark hair. &#8220;All right, baby girl, thanks for calling in,&#8220; Torrez says as she switches from one caller to the next. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got Maino in the studio today. You want to talk to him? OK, sweetheart, hold on a second.&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:02 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Short hops</title>
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Short hops Nationals OF Adam Dunn is the fifth player in major-league history to reach 300 home runs in less than 4,200 at-bats, succeeding in his 4,145th at-bat. The others are Babe Ruth (3,830), Mark McGwire (3,837), Ralph Kiner (3,883) and Harmon Killebrew (3,928). Dodgers OF Manny Ramirez hit his 534th home run to tie Jimmie Foxx for 16th on the all-time list. Next is Mickey Mantle at 536. Phillies LH Jamie Moyer won his 253rd game to tie Carl Hubbell for 42nd on the career list. Moyer also made his 600th start, tying Grover Cleveland Alexander for 21st all-time. Jacoby Ellsbury is the first Red Sox player to reach 35 steals in consecutive years since Tris Speaker from 1912-14. Ellsbury also became the first AL player to do it in consecutive years before the all-star break since Rickey Henderson did it in 1988-90.RH Tim Lincecum extended his scoreless innings streak to 23, the longest by a Giant since reliever Robb Nen went 252/3 consecutive innings without allowing a run in 2000. Blue Jays 3B Scott Rolen is hitting .407 (35 for 86) during his career-best 21-game hitting streak.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Jenny Lewis rocks and lulls at National show</title>
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With Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis falls effortlessly into polished Fleetwood Mac-styled pop. On her own, with a ragamuffin group of incredibly adept musicians, Lewis delves deeper into a soulful mixture of folk and country with a splintery pop edge.           ]]></description>
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Short hops Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira has gone 68 at-bats without a home run since June 12. Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez failed to drive in a run for the first time in 11 games. Indians OF Shin-Soo Choo&#8217;s seven RBI last night were the most by a Cleveland player since Grady Sizemore drove in seven Aug. 21 vs. Kansas City. Oakland&#8217;s Nomar Garciaparra went 2 for 3 and is hitting .373 (94 for 252) in his career against Cleveland.&nbsp; Tim Wakefield made his 383rd start for the Red Sox, surpassing Roger Clemens for the top spot on the team&#8217;s all-time list.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Jackson death spurs questions</title>
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Los Angeles police under scrutiny in Jackson death The investigation of Michael Jackson&#8217;s death is widening amid questions about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them, and the actions of police. Why didn&#8217;t police seal the mansion where he had been living? Why didn&#8217;t they get search warrants immediately? Why did they tow away a doctor&#8217;s car but not declare the home a crime scene?           ]]></description>
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Short hops The Braves, who were 0-9 against the Phillies at Turner Field last season, completed their first home sweep of Philadelphia since April, 2005. Barry Zito has the lowest run support of any starting pitcher in the majors. The Giants have scored 29 runs in the 931/3 innings he has pitched. Astros starters have posted a 2.13 ERA in the past 12 games, going 6-1 with five no-decisions. The Royals have allowed only 67 home runs, the fewest in the American League.&nbsp; Seattle won last night in the Bronx for the first time since Sept. 3, 2007, ending a 10-game road losing streak against the Yankees.&nbsp; Last night was Milwaukee&#8217;s first trip to Wrigley Field this season, even though the teams are in the same division and located only 90 miles apart.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Aerosmith postpones Sunday concert in Virginia Beach</title>
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Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater because of an unspecified &#8220;artist injury.&#8220; The band, on tour this summer with ZZ Top, also postponed last night&#8217;s show in Cincinnati and tonight&#8217;s gig at Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania. A rescheduled date is expected to be announced soon. Previously purchased tickets will be honored.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Aerosmith postpones Virginia Beach show</title>
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Aerosmith has postponed its Sunday show at Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater due to an unspecified &#8220;artist injury.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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          <title>Poll: 64 percent say too much Jackson coverage</title>
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LOS ANGELES&#8212;Nearly two in three Americans say news organizations have given too much coverage to the death of Michael Jackson, but half say the media have struck the right balance between covering the pop star&#8217;s personal life and musical career. In a Pew Research Center poll published yesterday, 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson&#8217;s death last week in Los Angeles has received too much coverage, 29 percent said the story received the right amount and 3 percent said the story got too little attention.           ]]></description>
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The connection between songwriter and song is one that regularly draws comparisons to that linking parent to child. So typically, when a songwriting band member takes his creation to his musical cohorts, he trusts that they will handle it with care.&nbsp; In the case of Sonic Youth, singer-guitarist Thurston Moore trusts his band mates to disregard all that.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fireworks on the Fourth</title>
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As we head into the star-spangeled weekend, these annual events are guaranteed to put some red, white and blue into your July Fourth outings. Check out our online events calendar for more things to do. And don&#8217;t miss the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday for your neighbors&#8217; thoughts about what freedom means and coverage of Fourth festivities.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Monthlong Wintergreen Music Fest offers smorgasbord of activities</title>
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It&#8217;s called the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and music still is its strongest ingredient.&nbsp; But in the past couple of years, the nearly monthlong festival at Wintergreen Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains has expanded its number of acts and diversity of choices.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Dining Out Review: Tastebuds American Bistro</title>
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I hold some restaurants in such a special place in my heart that I get excited, almost like parents would watching their kids, when they live up to their potential. I&#8217;m bound to grow attached, having kept an obsessive eye on Richmond&#8217;s restaurant scene for more than four years.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Opening&#45;night tickets for CenterStage on sale now</title>
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Tickets for the grand opening performances at Richmond CenterStage are now on sale.&nbsp; The show, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Carpenter Theatre, will include a performance by each of CenterStage&#8217;s nine producing resident companies.&nbsp; Tickets range from $35 to $100 and can be purchased at http://www.ticketmaster.com (search for &#8220;Carpenter Theatre&#8221;).           ]]></description>
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Short hops Florida shortstop Hanley Ramirez pushed his RBI streak to 10 games. The previous Marlins record for consecutive games with an RBI was eight, shared by five players. The major-league record is 17, set in 1922 by Ray Grimes of the Chicago Cubs. Jim Thome recorded his 1,600th walk, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Stan Musial for 12th on the career list. Next is Darrell Evans (1,605). Jon Garland (4-8) hasn&#8217;t won since May 19, going 0-6 with a pair of no-decisions. Blame Arizona&#8217;s offense, which has scored three or fewer runs in five of those games. Jimmy Rollins has no hits in his last 27 at-bats and is hitting only .205.&nbsp; The Dodgers&#8217; sputtering offense has scored eight runs over the past five games. Juan Pierre, who has started every game in left field during Manny Ramirez&#8217;s absence, will return to being a part-time player despite hitting .318 with 21 RBI, 31 runs scored, 15 walks and 21 stolen bases. Joe Mauer went 3 for 3, raising his average to .392. He&#8217;s eight plate appearances short of the 3.1 per game needed to qualify for the batting race. Dodgers pitchers struck out 39 Colorado batters during the past three games.           ]]></description>
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From dobro to go-go, the first eight performers announced for this year&#8217;s Richmond Folk Festival indicate the event isn&#8217;t straying from its eclectic roots. Nashville&#8217;s Jerry Douglas, regarded as the master of the dobro, along with D.C.-based go-go group Trouble Funk, Louisiana&#8217;s Jeffery Broussard &amp; The Creole Cowboys and yodeler Wylie Gustafson are among the artists announced yesterday by Venture Richmond, the organization that produces the event.           ]]></description>
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Natasha Bedingfield will celebrate the Fourth of July with a performance at the 29th annual &#8220;A Capitol Fourth&#8221; concert in D.C. The show will air live at 8 p.m. on  SpringsteenPBS. Joining Bedingfield are Barry Manilow, Aretha Franklin and the cast of &#8220;Jersey Boys.&#8220;&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Also on Saturday, Sirius XM satellite radio will broadcast at noon a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert recorded the night before in Frankfurt, Germany. The show will air on Springsteen&#8217;s dedicated channel. Sirius XM is also giving Sonic Youth&#8212;who perform at The National on Wednesday&#8212;the freedom to steer a nightly two-hour &#8220;Sonic Youth Show&#8221; on the Sirius XMU channel starting Monday.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora have teamed with exiled Iranian singer Andy Madadian for a cover of Ben E. King&#8217;s &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; as a message of solidarity to the people of Iran. The track, produced by Don Was, is not being sold, but it can be found online as an embeddable video (search YouTube for &#8220;Bon Jovi and Stand By Me&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find it).&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Alice in Chains is offering fans a peek at its new album by posting the new seven-minute song, &#8220;A Looking in View,&#8220; at http://www.aliceinchains.com. The band&#8217;s &#8220;Black Gives Way to Blue&#8221; album is due Sept. 29.           ]]></description>
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The opera is on in Rappahannock County beginning tomorrow with a 7 p.m. performance of &#8220;The Turn of the Screw.&#8220;&nbsp; The first Castleton Festival&#8212;believed to be the only chamber-opera festival in the country&#8212;kicks off at the farm of Lorin Maazel, the recently retired director of the New York Philharmonic, and his wife, actress Dietlinde Turban L. MaazelMaazel. It&#8217;ll run through July 19, with performances most days.           ]]></description>
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Michael&#8217;s music During the first half of last week, total national airplay for Jackson&#8217;s most popular 20 songs averaged about 350 spins a day. On the day of his death, that number spiked to 10,000 spins, and on Friday, 20,000 spins. The top five Jackson songs played last Thursday between 3 p.m. and midnight:&nbsp; &#8220;Billie Jean&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Thriller&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Rock With You&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Man in the Mirror&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;Beat It&#8221; SOURCE: Nielsen BDS           ]]></description>
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The will. The kids. The parasitic father. The funeral plans. The London concerts refunds. The Beatles catalog. The unreleased vault of songs.&nbsp; It&#8217;s exhausting thinking about the fallout from Michael Jackson&#8217;s death and more draining to realize we&#8217;re going to hear about these things for a very long time.           ]]></description>
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If you have a craving for Mexican food, you don&#8217;t have to go far if you&#8217;re a Virginia Commonwealth University student or in the vicinity.&nbsp; A couple of weeks ago, Chipotle opened in the new shopping center at Laurel and Grace streets, and now there is also a Little Mexico outpost a block away at 308 N. Laurel St.           ]]></description>
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The title of Woody Allen&#8217;s new comedy, &#8220;Whatever Works,&#8220; might define what the filmmaker has been up to the past few years.&nbsp; Allen churns out one movie a year like clockwork&#8212;some OK, some mediocre, none memorable. Sure, last year&#8217;s &#8220;Vicky Cristina Barcelona&#8221; drew solid audiences, won Penelope Cruz an Academy Award and was a step or two above other recent Allen flicks.           ]]></description>
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Gone but not forgotten Leaving in first run tomorrow are &#8220;Angels &amp; Demons,&#8220; &#8220;Imagine That,&#8220; &#8220;Land of the Lost,&#8220; &#8220;Management&#8221; and &#8220;Terminator Salvation.&#8220;&nbsp; Second run &#8220;Monsters vs. Aliens&#8221; and &#8220;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8221; will play at the Byrd starting tomorrow. Matinee for &#8220;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&#8221; will play Sunday at 4:30 p.m.&nbsp; An unforgettable night &#8220;Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8221; is this week&#8217;s Insomnia Theater at Movieland, showing tomorrow and Saturday at 11:30 p.m.&nbsp;  Send in the clowns &#8220;The 3 Stooges Meet Hercules&#8221; is the Movies and Mimosas feature Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. at Movieland. &#8212;Trudy Knight           ]]></description>
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Recent raves  The most recent restaurants to receive three or more stars from restaurant reviewer Dana Craig:&nbsp; The Black Sheep 901 W. Marshall St.           ]]></description>
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upnext GUITAR &amp; OTHER STRINGS&#8212;July 10, 17, 24, 26. VCU&#8217;s 17th annual paean to stringed instruments opens with hammered dulcimer player Maggie Sansone &amp; Friends in music with a Celtic flavor, 7:30 p.m. July 10, $10. Series continues July 17 with harp guitar legend Stephen Bennett, July 24 with bossa nova band Quatro na Bossa and July 26 with VCU Community Guitar Ensemble. All take place in Vlahcevic Hall, VCU Singleton Center, 922 Park Ave. 828-6776 or 828-1166.           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Uproar, The Pogo, Transit Fear, more, 7 p.m. Thursday, $7.&nbsp;  ANDY&#8217;S RESTAURANT&#8212;Henry Clay Shopping Center, 412 England St., Ashland, 798-9751. Loose Gravel, (classic rock), 9 p.m. Friday, $3.&nbsp;  ASHLAND COFFEE &amp; TEA&#8212;100 N. Railroad Ave., Ashland, 798-1702. Latitude, 8 p.m. Friday, $10-$15. The Taters, 7 p.m. Wednesday, $5. Amy Speace, 8 p.m. July 9, $10-$15.           ]]></description>
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Science Museum IMAX  &#8220;Dolphins&#8221;: 4 p.m. Friday-Monday; noon, 4 p.m. Tuesday; 4 p.m. Wednesday. $8.50.&nbsp; &#8220;Sharks&#8221;: 11 a.m., 2, 5 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2, 5 p.m. Sunday; 11 a.m., 2, 5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday. $8.50.&nbsp; &#8220;Coral Reef Adventure&#8221;: noon, 3 p.m. Thursday-Monday; 3 p.m. Tuesday; noon, 3 p.m. Wednesday. $8.50.           ]]></description>
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Gallery 5800 is celebrating the summer season with &#8220;Summer Magic,&#8220; a one-woman show by Chesapeake-area artist Suzanne Morris.&nbsp; The show consists of 40 framed original oil paintings that depict the sights of summer, including sailboats, beaches and small harbors.           ]]></description>
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Look for these new DVD releases, now on store shelves. &#8220;Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li&#8221;: Though it&#8217;s based on the arcade video game, this movie aims for a marginally &nbsp; Kreukcoherent, humanized tale of good vs. evil in the martial-arts genre. It is semi-successful and too often a bore. One good thing: Kristin Kreuk (of TV&#8217;s &#8220;Smallville&#8221;), who is effortlessly charming as Chun-Li, a young woman adept at martial arts. Chun-Li remembers her father&#8217;s violent kidnapping. A mysterious scroll points to the man who took him, so Chun-Li studies with Gen (Robin Shou), a martial-arts master, who goes with her to Bangkok in search of the evil Bison (Neal McDonough) and his enforcer. 1:36. Rated PG-13 (violence and sensuality).           ]]></description>
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The top five new-release movies from Comcast On Demand in Richmond for the week ending June 28:&nbsp; 1. &#8220;Gran Torino&#8221;&nbsp; 2. &#8220;Valkyrie&#8221;&nbsp; 3. &#8220;He&#8217;s Just Not That Into You&#8221;&nbsp; 4. &#8220;Taken&#8221;&nbsp; 5. &#8220;Underworld: Rise of the Lycans&#8221;&nbsp;  1. &#8220;Gran Torino&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Ticket sales for June 26-28. Dollar figures in the millions. There are no ties; numbers are rounded-off.&nbsp;   1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $109  Total: $109, one week  Locations: 4,234 &nbsp;  2. The Proposal $18.6           ]]></description>
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stillgoing &nbsp;  Barksdale Theatre-Willow Lawn, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, 282-2620. &#8220;Driving Miss Daisy,&#8220; $35-$38. Through Aug. 2.&nbsp;   Carpenter Science Theatre Company, Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St., 864-1400. &#8220;Amazing Tales of Sharks,&#8220; included in museum admission of $9-$10. Through Aug. 16.           ]]></description>
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Aspokesman for Grammy-winning country musician Ray Price says the singer is home in Texas recuperating after surgery to remove polyps from his colon. Price&#8217;s agent, Bobby Roberts, says Price, 83, was admitted to a hospital in his home state on June 22 for routine medical tests when a colonoscopy revealed a large number of polyps in the pre-cancerous stage. Roberts says the surgery was successfully completed the next day.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES&#8212;Michael Jackson&#8217;s 7-year-old will was filed today in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust but cutting out his former wife Debbie Rowe. The will, dated July 7, 2002, estimated his estate at that time at more than $500 million. It gives the entire estate to the Michael Jackson Family Trust.           ]]></description>
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Afederal judge in Boston says Yoko Ono is the rightful copyright holder of rare, intimate footage showing John Lennon and his family in London in 1970. Judge Rya Zobel, who issued the ruling, refused to reinstate a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by a Lawrence, Mass.-based company that says it owns the videotapes.   . . .            ]]></description>
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Hip-hop magazine Vibe shut down today, 16 years after it was founded by Quincy Jones. That will leave just one other major national hip-hop magazine, The Source. The announcement was made today by Steve Aaron, Vibe Media Group&#8217;s chief executive officer. &#8220;It is with a heavy heart that I share some tough news, VMG is closing down effective today, June 30 due to lack of additional financial investments,&#8220; Aaron said in a memo.           ]]></description>
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Michael Jackson claimed to have a net worth of $236 million as of March 31, 2007, according to financial documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed light on the late pop star&#8217;s murky finances and prodigious borrowing.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES&#8212;The Associated Press has learned that Michael Jackson finished an elaborate video production two weeks before he died. The five-week project filmed at Culver Studios, dubbed &#8220;Dome Project,&#8220; could be the final finished video piece overseen by the King of Pop. Two people with knowledge of the project confirmed its existence to the AP on condition they not be identified because they signed confidentiality agreements.           ]]></description>
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They wouldn&#8217;t be allowed to perform in Iran, but singers Joan Baez and Jon Bon Jovi are showing their support for protesters. In videos carried on YouTube, the artists perform songs&#8212;with a few lines in Farsi&#8212;that call for peace. Bon Jovi sings &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; alongside Armenian-Iranian pop star Andy Madadian. The New Jersey rocker adds, in surprisingly good Farsi, the line: &#8220;Hand in hand, with one voice, you and me, countryman, your pain, my pain, be with me.&#8220; Baez&#8217;s version of &#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221; includes a portion in Farsi.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP)&#8212;A lawyer for Michael Jackson&#8217;s family said Tuesday a will by the late pop star has been presented. The word came just a day after the family said in court documents it believed the entertainer had died without a valid will.


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Elvis had one. So did Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe. They are the doctors who cater to celebrities, dispensing powerful painkillers and sedatives to some of Hollywood&#8217;s best-known entertainers.
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Organizers of the 2009 Richmond Folk Festival are seeking volunteers to fill a variety of roles throughout the festival Oct. 9-11. It takes about 1,200 volunteers to produce the festival, which last year drew 185,000 people to downtown Richmond&#8217;s historic riverfront. Potential volunteers are asked to visit http://www.richmondfolkfestival.com, click on Volunteers, then sign up. Volunteers may choose the job they like, along with the specific date and time they would like to work.           ]]></description>
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 Michael Jackson&#8217;s mother asked a Superior Court judge to name her administrator of her late son&#8217;s estate so she can ensure the King of Pop&#8217;s three children are its beneficiaries.
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A Florida medical examiner says television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack but further tests are needed.
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Telecast was completely revamped to recognize the legacy of Michael Jackson. For the most part, it was a joyous wake.

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          <title>Mysteries roundup: Novels set near the ocean</title>
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Summer&#8217;s here, and the time is right for reading by the sea. And if your tastes in holidays and fiction run together, each of these mysteries is set at oceanside or near it &#8212; in England, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California.            ]]></description>
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BUS STOP&#8212;Director Amy Berlin seeks three women, ages 16-50, and five men, ages 20-60, to perform in the William Inge play. Auditions are by appointment only and will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. July 6 and 7 at Barksdale Theatre, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive. Those auditioning must read from the script. Specific callbacks will require a musical component. To schedule an audition, call (804) 344-8052, ext. 4.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:45 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Remember Jackson&#8217;s artistry, not his foibles</title>
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Before the ugliness begins. Before the tug-of-war over children and a dwindling estate become a sordid tabloid feast. Before Michael Jackson&#8217;s status as the greatest globally revered pop-music superstar in history is overshadowed by toxicology results and the flapping gums of &#8220;family friends&#8221; who will attest to his self-destructive behavior but never mention why they didn&#8217;t bother to intervene.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:42 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>STILL GOING</title>
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Ongoing productions on area stages Barksdale Theatre-Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, Hanover, 282-2620. &#8220;I Ought to be in Pictures,&#8220; $38. Through today. Barksdale Theatre-Willow Lawn, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive, 282-2620. &#8220;Driving Miss Daisy,&#8220; $35-$38. Through Aug. 2. Carpenter Science Theatre Company, Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St., 864-1400. &#8220;Amazing Tales of Sharks,&#8220; included in museum admission of $9-$10. Through Aug. 16.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Emeril Lagasse shows taped at Fort Lee air this week</title>
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Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse cooked up a feast in April when he taped a show at the Army Center of Excellence, Subsistence at Fort Lee. After a delay from an original broadcast date, the show taped at Fort Lee is scheduled to air tomorrow on his show &#8220;Emeril Green.&#8220; At Fort Lee, Lagasse prepared enough food to feed a small army. He was dressed in battle camouflage and combat boots like his kitchen helpers, which included men and women in the culinary programs at Fort Lee.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:37 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>CALENDAR</title>
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JULY 5 Book Swap&#8212;Exchange of books and/or conversation, 3-5 p.m. at Book People, 536 Granite Ave. Free. 288-4346.&nbsp; JULY 10 &#8220;Haunted Virginia: Legends, Myths and True Tales&#8221; and &#8220;Haunted Richmond&#8221; by Pamela K. Kinney&#8212;Book signing, 8 p.m. at Minerva Books and Caf&#233;, 233 Barstow Alley, Petersburg. 732-2440.&nbsp; JULY 11           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fiction review: Let the Great World Spin</title>
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Colum McCann&#8217;s powerful new novel, &#8220;Let the Great World Spin,&#8220; opens with a moment of lofty magic. It&#8217;s Aug. 7, 1974, and a man seems to float in the air a quarter mile above lower Manhattan. He is, in fact, standing on a wire stretched between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. And as he begins walking between the towers, pedestrians below him find themselves mesmerized.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Virginia notes: Four volumes of poetry</title>
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I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste.&#8212;Edgar Allan Poe   . . .  Beauty, indeed. Four Virginia poets&#8212;two well-known, two not so, offer anthologies that make summer a time to savor the poetic as well as lighter reading.   . . .            ]]></description>
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          <title>Area theater groups prepare for upcoming season</title>
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Bootleg Shakespeare. A true story about a radium-poisoning scandal. A black comedy whose characters include a talking apartment and a ghostly Justin Timberlake. Those are some of the enticements that Richmond-area theaters will present in the 2009-10 season. Firehouse Theatre Project artistic director Carol Piersol might have been speaking for many company leaders when she said of her play-selection process, &#8220;I make a pile of plays that hit me in the gut - and then I try to get variety.&#8220;           ]]></description>
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If Albert Einstein had lived long enough, he might have invented the flux capacitor&#8212;a fact that wasn&#8217;t lost on Christopher Lloyd. The &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; actor recalls that Einstein was a key inspiration for &#8220;Doc&#8221; Brown, the scientist who invented time travel via a souped-up DeLorean in the 1985 film. But another came from looking at an album cover of Philadelphia orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski, who was shown in front of the cosmos with his arms raised and sporting a great white shock of hair.           ]]></description>
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Every age has its high-flying buccaneers, but few are as candid about their fall as publisher and journalist Neil White is in his affecting memoir, &#8220;In the Sanctuary of Outcasts.&#8220; Wanting to do good, White also knowingly did wrong and consequently was incarcerated in the Louisiana prison that was also the last leper colony in the continental United States.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:23 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Parsons&#8217; Cause performance scheduled for July 4</title>
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Performances of &#8220;The Parsons&#8217; Cause: Prelude to Revolution&#8221; will be presented July 4 at 11 a.m. at the historic Hanover Courthouse, U.S. 301 and Hanover Courthouse Road. A court case known as The Parsons&#8217; Cause took place in 1763 at the courthouse and thrust a young attorney named Patrick Henry into the spotlight with his challenge to the authority of the Church of England and the king of England.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:22 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Museum celebrates remarkable life of Walt Disney</title>
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He&#8217;s the reason adults of a certain age can&#8217;t stop themselves from finishing the song line beginning &#8220;M-I-C-K-E-Y,&#8220; the force causing untold legions to see marching mops when they hear the rousing strains of &#8220;The Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice.&#8220; But the story of Walt Disney the man sometimes gets forgotten in the telling of his legend. Descendants of the 20th-century innovator hope to fix that disconnect with the Walt Disney Family Museum, opening this fall in San Francisco.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:01:17 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>RADIO STATIONS</title>
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AM Radio (590) WLES (Christian Talk Radio) (820) WGGM (gospel, USA Radio news) (870) WFLO (country/bluegrass) (910) WRNL (local and national sports, talk, Virginia News Network) (950) WXGI (ESPN, Washington Redskins, Washington Nationals, Richmond Spiders) (990) WLEE (All news, CNN Headline News and CBS News, traffic, weather)           ]]></description>
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          <title>Pulitzer&#45;winning &#8216;Daisy&#8217; a poignant gem</title>
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A beautiful play, beautifully played. Alfred Uhry&#8217;s 1987 &#8220;Driving Miss Daisy&#8221; won the Pulitzer Prize, and it&#8217;s easy to see why. Uhry uses a narrow focus on three characters to tell a story that is nevertheless broad and deep&#8212;life in the South between 1948 and 1973, touching on race, class, aging and companionship. Present this gem with an ideal cast and a simple production and you have a winner. That&#8217;s what Barksdale Theatre did last summer at Hanover Tavern. This summer, it&#8217;s reprising the show at Barksdale&#8217;s Willow Lawn location, with all the quality intact.           ]]></description>
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The Harlem theater that helped launch Michael Jackson&#8217;s career plans a star-studded musical memorial on the same stage where he and his brothers once did 31 shows in one week, for $1,000. &#8220;They couldn&#8217;t pay their hotel bill,&#8220; recalled Bobby Schiffman, whose family owned Harlem&#8217;s Apollo Theater in 1967. That summer, after the Jackson 5 won the Apollo&#8217;s Amateur Night competition, Schiffman says he gave them the gig that covered the bill so they could go home to Indiana.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sirius XM satellite radio launches &#8216;The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel&#8217;</title>
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Sirius XM satellite radio has launched The Michael Jackson Tribute Channel, which will run through Monday at 11:59 p.m. on Sirius channel 51 and XM channel 62.
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          <title>&#8216;Peace to the King&#8217;: Remembering Jackson</title>
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Comments on the death of Michael Jackson, from Lisa Marie Presley to Dick Clark, from the mayor of his hometown to rapper-actor LL Cool J.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:09:08 EDT</pubDate>
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The man-child named Michael Jackson and the luminous girl known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors jumped into our consciousness at a plastic moment in American culture. Their deaths leave a generation without two of its defining figures.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Richmonder wins national celebrity lookalike contest</title>
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People always told Manaya Mabry that she strongly resembles Mary J. Blige, and now that likeness has won her a trip to the BET Awards. Richmonder Mabry, 28, defeated more than 4,000 contenders in the 2009 Celebrity Lookalike Contest sponsored by BET and Dr. Miracle&#8217;s beauty care. Her prize is travel and a hotel for a two-night stay in Los Angeles and a pair of tickets to Sunday&#8217;s awards show.           ]]></description>
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Short hops &nbsp; John Smoltz joins Phil Niekro and Warren Spahn as the only pitchers to spend at least 20 seasons with one franchise before playing a game for another. All three had their two decades of services with the Braves.&nbsp; Texas shortstop Omar Vizquel singled in the first inning against Arizona for his 2,678th career hit, the most ever by a native of Venezuela.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Aniston is too good for this film</title>
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It&#8217;s easy to forget that Jennifer Aniston truly can act. It&#8217;s easy to get caught up in her sunny looks, in the tabloid frenzy of her off-screen persona, and lose sight of the fact that, when given the opportunity in small, meaty films, such as &#8220;The Good Girl&#8221; and &#8220;Friends With Money&#8221; and even the cult comedy &#8220;Office Space,&#8220; she can reveal some real substance and depth.           ]]></description>
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Michael Jackson, 50, died on Thursday June 25, 2009.           ]]></description>
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LOS ANGELES (AP)&#8212;Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the &#8220;King of Pop&#8221; and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.           ]]></description>
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C&eacute;line Cousteau has been featured in the PBS series &#8220;Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.&#8220;&nbsp;   To celebrate the launch of the shark exhibits at the Science Museum of Virginia, adventurer C&eacute;line Cousteau, daughter of Jean-Michel Cousteau and granddaughter of Jacques Cousteau, will present &#8220;Inspiration From Exploration: Notes from the Field&#8221; today at 7 p.m.           ]]></description>
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There aren&#8217;t any heavy hitters such as The Police or Kanye West, but there is a bigger change to this year&#8217;s Virgin Mobile Festival&#8212;it&#8217;s free.&nbsp; Changing from a multi-day fest at Pimlico racetrack outside of Baltimore to a one-day event at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the Virgin Mobile FreeFest on Aug. 30 will include performances by Weezer, Blink-182, Franz Ferdinand, Public Enemy, Jet and The Hold Steady.           ]]></description>
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f I had to recall the last time I spent a dinner chatting about a chef&#8217;s culinary style one minute and rapping with him to A Tribe Called Quest the next, this article would end right here.&nbsp; Now that I&#8217;ve hung out at Leigh St. Bar &amp; Grill, I&#8217;ve spent a dinner doing just that and would do it again just about any night of the week.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:36 EDT</pubDate>
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Swimming soon in a tank near you, sharks will be available for up-close and personal encounters at the Science Museum of Virginia.&nbsp; The museum will launch its first long-term shark exhibition, &#8220;Shark Space,&#8220; on Saturday with &#8220;Scooper Bowl&#8221; from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.           ]]></description>
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Are you still wild about Harry (Potter, that is) or has the &#8220;Twlight&#8221; crew and its vampire ilk sucked away your interest?&nbsp; We&#8217;re looking for Potter loyalists whose adoration of J.K. Rowling&#8217;s creation is unceasing, and also those who might have outgrown Harry and the gang in favor of Edward and Bella.           ]]></description>
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Paul McCartney has added a D.C.-area date to his growing summer tour.&nbsp; The artist whom &#8220;Guinness World Records&#8221; lists as the most successful musician and composer in pop music history, will perform at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 1.&nbsp; Tickets have been on sale all week for American Express cardholders, but will be available to the general public at 10 a.m. tomorrow.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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This is the last week to vote at http://www.eventful.com to lure KISS to perform in Richmond. The band decided to allow fans the opportunity to decide where it will play on an upcoming tour (whether the results will prove real or this is another KISS gimmick remains to be seen). In any case, right now, Richmond is number 128 on a list of about 500 cities. But unless you want to get beaten by Dubuque, Iowa, and Pikeville, Ky.&#8212;both ahead of us in the list of cities in the running&#8212;get voting.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; Coming next year, Jessica Simpson, back with a reality  Simpsonshow. VH1 has picked up &#8220;The Price of Beauty,&#8220; where we&#8217;ll be able to watch Simpson travel the world to see how ordinary women and celebs achieve their idea of beauty.&nbsp; . . .&nbsp; On Aug. 3, Sugarland will preview their DVD (out the next day) with an hourlong special on ABC. The TV sample and the DVD come from a show shot in Lexington, K.Y., last fall.           ]]></description>
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LaBelle &nbsp; Babyface &nbsp; Even though the lineups in recent years have leaned more toward R&amp;B/pop with some smooth jazz acts sprinkled in, the Hampton Jazz Festival is a legendary annual occurrence.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not unusual for music fans from Georgia to New York to make the drive for the three-day event to not only listen to music, but to gather ritualistically with friends.           ]]></description>
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          <title>The Beat: A concept for concerts: performing whole albums</title>
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The Decemberists did it at The National a couple of weeks ago.&nbsp; Aerosmith ripped through it last weekend at Nissan Pavilion and will repeat the stunt July 5 at Virginia Beach Amphitheater.&nbsp; Even Van Morrison and Motley Crue are jumping on the trend.&nbsp; You want a little something different at your concerts this summer? You&#8217;re getting it from these bands&#8212;and a few more&#8212;who are incorporating the performance of an entire album, start to finish, into their live sets.           ]]></description>
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As long as the economy continues to founder, restaurants will seemingly continue to offer various &#8220;recession buster&#8221; specials.&nbsp; While most deals apply to happy hours and dinners, at least two area establishments are getting creative with lunch specials (and if your restaurant is doing something, let Table Talk know at the e-mail address below).           ]]></description>
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Ramon Rodriguez, who&#8217;s acted in TV shows, has a role in &#8216;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.&#8216;&nbsp;  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  Actor Ramon Rodriguez suspected &#8220;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen&#8221; would be grueling and that was just based on his audition with director Michael Bay.&nbsp; &#8220;I went on tape in New York and then they flew me out to L.A. to meet with him in his office in Santa Monica. For an hour and a half I was in his office running, jumping and diving around his furniture,&#8220; Rodriguez recalled.           ]]></description>
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upnext CHUCK BROWN&#8212;July 3. Godfather of Go-Go Chuck Brown with Laura Izibor, gates at 6 p.m. at Kanawha Plaza, Eighth and Canal streets. $20. 644-8515 or (800) 745-3000.&nbsp;  ASHLAND FOURTH OF JULY PARADE&#8212;July 4. Non-motorized parade starts at 11 a.m. at Henry Clay Road and Center Street and marches to Hanover Arts &amp; Activities Center, 500 S. Center St., for contests, music, crafts, games and small-town fun. Free. 798-2728.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Images from Ghana exhibited at Black History Museum</title>
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The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in Jackson Ward is exhibiting &#8220;Reunion of the Spirit: A Photographer&#8217;s Journey to Ghana, West Africa,&#8220; featuring the work of James L. Thornhill.&nbsp; According to executive director Maureen Elgersman Lee, Thornhill grew up in Jackson Ward. His photographs chronicle his physical and spiritual journey to answer his questions about his relationship to Africa. The images range from the haunting Elmina Castle&#8212;used to house Africans bound for the Caribbean at the onset of the slave trade in the 16th century&#8212;to those of natural beauty as well as the faces of the country&#8217;s women and children.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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stillgoing &nbsp;  Barksdale Theatre-Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, Hanover, 282-2620. &#8220;I Ought to Be in Pictures,&#8220; $38. Through Sunday.&nbsp;   Carpenter Science Theatre Company, Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St., 864-1400. &#8220;Amazing Tales of Sharks,&#8220; included in museum admission of $9-$10. Through Aug. 16.           ]]></description>
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See you later Leaving in first run tomorrow are &#8220;Adoration,&#8220; &#8220;Dance Flick,&#8220; &#8220;My Life in Ruins&#8221; and &#8220;The Merry Gentleman.&#8220;&nbsp; Second run &#8220;Monsters vs. Aliens&#8221; and &#8220;Obsessed&#8221; will play at the Byrd starting tomorrow. Matinee for &#8220;Monsters vs. Aliens&#8221; will play Saturday at 4:30 p.m.&nbsp; Finding the gold &#8220;The Goonies&#8221; is this week&#8217;s Insomnia Theater at the Movieland, showing tomorrow and Saturday at 11:30 p.m.&nbsp;  Terror in the water Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss star in &#8220;Jaws&#8221; for the Movies and Mimosas feature, Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m. at Movieland. &#8212;Trudy Knight           ]]></description>
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ALLEY KATZ&#8212;10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. Girls Get All the Action CD release with Colin Healy &amp; the Jet Skis, Hello Conductor, Audible View and others, 4 p.m. Friday, $10-$12. Bush League, Photosynthesizers, Brad Moss &amp; the New Age and Elevation Click, 10 p.m. Friday, $5-$7. Bobaflex, Unheard Concept and others, 5 p.m. Sturday, $10-$12. 1000 Yard Stare and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $7. Traveling Nachos, Last Epidemic, The Hotdamns and others, 4 p.m. Sunday, $8-$10. Uproar, The Pogo, Transit Fear, more, 7 p.m. July 2, $7.           ]]></description>
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