Category: People

  • People watching pick: Baggby’s

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    Local blogger Ruth Kastenmayer shares one of here favorite places to sit and people watch on the DTM–a window seat at Baggby’s! So where is your favorite spot? From this seat  in the comfort of air conditioning one can see City Spaces, City Hall, the carousel, the Free Speech Monument, and the Pavilion – “people…

  • Aaron Neville to play Paramount

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    The Paramount Theater just announced that Soul and R&B singer Aaron Neville will perform on June 26. Ticket’s aren’t available just quite yet, but you may want to be vigilant about this one. Those tickets could go fast. Neville has had four top-20 hits in the U.S. as a solo artists, and for many years…

  • Reading: Saunders’ debut novel Ministers of Fire

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    Over ten years in the making, local author Mark Saunders’ debut novel Ministers of Fire has finally hit the bookstores, both online and off, and on Friday, May 18 he’ll be reading from the book at the New Dominion Bookshop on the DTM. Novelist Robert Stone calls Ministers a “beautifully written, restrained, and passionate work…

  • Ian Boden now chef at Blue Light

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    What was sad news in Staunton–the closing of the much-talked-about Staunton Grocery, the farm-to-table inspired eatery in the Queen City created by chef/owner Ian Boden–has turned into good news for the DTM. “I took over as Executive Chef at Blue Light Grill on the downtown mall in Charlottesville, bringing all the great farmers, wonderful products…