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DTM Book Fest Picks: writing and talking about food
Cathal Armstrong (My Irish Table: Recipes From the Homeland and Restaurant Eve), (Andrea Chesman (Recipes from the Root Cellar), Caroline Grant (The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage), Ira Wallace (The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast,) and Joe Yonan (Eat Your Vegetables: Bold Recipes for the Single Cook) talk about food, family, and…
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DTM Book Fest Picks: women and the Bomb
Denise Kiernan (Girls of Atomic City) discusses the women who worked at Oak Ridge to help develop the atomic bomb at New Dominion Bookshop at 2pm today.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: find some inspiration
Nancy Peacock (The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson, Carrie Brown (The Last First Day) and Jamie Quatro (I Want To Show You More) talk about what inspires their stories at New Dominion Bookshop today at 12pm.
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DTM Book Fest Picks: wide world of sports stories
Tim Wendel (Down to the Last Pitch: The l991 Twins-Braves Fall Classic-The Best World Series Ever), Neil Sagebiel (The Longest Shot: Jack Fleck, Ben Hogan and Pro Golf’s Greatest Upset at the 1955 U.S. Open), and Dean Bartoli Smith (Never Easy, Never Pretty: A Fan, A City, A Championship Season) talk sports in City Hall…
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DTM Book Fest Pick: Little known stories about World War II
Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp (Discourse and Defiance under Nazi Occupation) and Craig Shirley (December 1941: 31 Days That Changed America and Saved the World) share stories about the great war. City Hall Chambers today at 4pm.
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DTM Book Fest Pick: poets at the bus station
Bus Lines Community Poetry seeks to promote poetry and flash fiction in public spaces and to provide opportunities for local writers of all ages to share their work in the wider world. Hosted by Susan Berres, Bus Lines Community Poetry Contest, Westley Kern, Charlottesville Area Transit. Downtown Transit Center at 6pm today.
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DTM Book Fest Pick: the journey of life
Jim Herndon (Jack’s Shop: The Long Road Back), Otis Lee (From South Boston to Cambridge), and Loretta Veney, (Being My Mom’s Mom) discuss the memoir and life’s unexpected journeys at City Hall Chambers at 4pm today.
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They say it’s your birthday: 88 Keys turns 88 at Fellini’s
Wilford “88 Keys” Wilson at his Monday night gig at Fellini’s #9. Photo by Anita Byers. Okay, seriously, if you love music, you really have no reason not to come out to Fellini’s #9 on Friday, January 31 for Wiford “88 Keys” Wilson’s birthday celebration. First of all, the dude is turning, you guessed it,…
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Prelude to MLK week: old-style gospel at Fellini’s #9, and more
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is January 20, but for days before and after, events across town and at UVA are being held to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy, including an afternoon of gospel at Fellini’s #9 on the DTM. Over at UVA, author and radio host Michael Eric Dyson, two-time NAACP Image Award winner, and…
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The DTM Launch Campaign: please show your support today!
Thank you to all those who have supported The DTM Launch Campaign. You’ve made it possible for me to create this website, and to cover stories like the recent Downtown Mall beating, which impacted our community on a national level. It’s certainly been a unique experience writing about such a story as a private citizen…
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