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Academics are the main draw for Anne H. Charityof Richmond, Va., who plans to study linguisticsand comparative literature...
With those familiar lyrics, Frank Sinatra began crooning an encore of My Way to a sold-out crowd in Richmond, Virginia, a week ago. Midway through his signature tune, dripping with sweat, the 78-year-old singer called for a chair, then suddenly collapsed. The audience gasped as he landed facedown with a thud. "I thought he had died," Sinatra's bass player told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "I always figured he'd go onstage." Revived a few moments later, Sinatra was rushed off in a wheelchair and spent a few hours in a local hospital before flying...
Frank Sinatra collapsed on a Richmond, Virginia, stage while performing his trademark My Way. Complaining of the heat, the singer fell to the floor "like a sack of stones," recalled a concert-goer. He is recovering in California...
...battle started last November in Richmond with Virginia's new Republican Governor, George Allen Jr., allying himself with "the mouse," a sobriquet used by the locals and even Disney itself to describe the dozens of lawyers and lobbyists who descended on the state capitol. The mouse was managed by Mark Pacala, a negotiator who threatened to walk out of Virginia if Disney did not get what it demanded. Many legislators, while incensed, were still scared of losing such a potential cash cow. After months of wrangling, Virginia will give Disney the support structure it wants but will force the company...
...listen to. aMINIATURE have clearly heard a lot of Big Black and a lot of Replacements--there's one song, "Featurist," on this disc that wouldn't sound out of place on the 'Placemats' LET IT BE LP. But the best analogy for aMINIATURE's sound is a defunct Richmond, VA band called Honor Role, who combined continually off-balance, polyrhythmic bass and drum work with very simple guitar attacks and half-spoken, half-sung, half-muttered grumblings about life, the universe and high school. (Yeah, I know that adds up to three-halves of a vocal line. When...