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Arts Notes: Winter arts offerings keep the chill away in Williamsburg
17+ hour, 24+ min ago (645+ words) January is already gearing up to be filled with a variety of events to help get us through the winter doldrums. The Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center will hold its 23rd Annual High School Student Show from Jan. 14 through Feb. 20, featuring students…...
Williamsburg approves funding for film, museum events
19+ hour, 23+ min ago (350+ words) Three organizations will receive Williamsburg funding for their events this year. On Thursday, Williamsburg City Council approved giving funding support from its Tourism Promotion Contingency Fund for the Virginia Docent Exchange, the Virginia Black Film Festival and the Muscarelle Museum…...
Virginia Beach reality show personality is at it again, competing on new season of ‘Beast Games’
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (276+ words) She's become a reality competition show personality. Her ambition is to win one. Jessi DiPette, 30, of Virginia Beach, made her debut two years ago competing on Netflix's "Squid Game: The Challenge.Her dream is to one day be on NBC's…...
In young readers’ bestsellers, a mall escape and a new ‘The Way Things Work’
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (247+ words) Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. WEEKS…...
Letters to the Gazette
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (10+ words) Letters to the Gazette'Daily Press More in Virginia Gazette Opinion...
Porcelain exhibit links Jamestown colony with imperial China
6+ day, 35+ min ago (691+ words) JAMESTOWN " A new special exhibition at the Jamestown Settlement museum bridges histories and provides a new insight into the lives of early American colonists. "Following the Dragon" features 31 of the more than 100 Chinese Ming porcelain vessels discovered in archaeological excavations…...
He portrays Frederick Douglass in shows across America. Next week, he’ll be in Hampton.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (582+ words) He puts on his frock coat, straightens the gold chain of the pocket watch tucked into his suit vest and morphs into character, becoming a living embodiment of the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. He picks up a replica of a…...
A tale of a family of spies for Japan, Nazi Germany joins bestseller list
1+ week, 3+ day ago (140+ words) Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. WEEKS…...
For middle-grade readers, a dragonlike creature awaits in an egg
1+ week, 3+ day ago (251+ words) Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. WEEKS…...
Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin details life before and after he made history in new memoir
1+ week, 3+ day ago (769+ words) John Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan in 1981 who was fully released from psychiatric care in 2022, has published a memoir he hopes will show the public that he's not the same person who pulled that trigger so…...