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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - A Native Nancy Drew. That s what author Angeline Boulley always wanted in a young adult thriller. And that s who she created in Daunis Firekeeper, a determined teen who reluctantly joins forces with the FBI to investigate a pervasive meth ring. We visit about Boulley s first novel, Firekeeper s Daughter, which has already been optioned for a Netflix series. ~~~ Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, so we thought we’d share an essay from Wendy Welch, the author of “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book.” Her book explores what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Allison Quantz reports.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - A Native Nancy Drew. That s what author Angeline Boulley always wanted in a young adult thriller. And that s who she created in Daunis Firekeeper, a determined teen who reluctantly joins forces with the FBI to investigate a pervasive meth ring. We visit about Boulley s first novel, Firekeeper s Daughter, which has already been optioned for a Netflix series. ~~~ Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day, so we thought we’d share an essay from Wendy Welch, the author of “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book.” Her book explores what it means to open an independent bookst
Dominik Kulusic, a German graduate student, hiked and cycled all of Virginia’s state parks during the past 12 months (pictured here in Richmond).
By spring 2020, Dominik Kulusic, a 26-year-old German graduate student in human resources management at Rutgers University, was caught in the crosshairs of the pandemic. Classes were remote. The student gym closed. The Big Apple, a nearby lure, was no longer an option. And by February his housemates, fellow German nationals, had trickled away.
So last April the peripatetic Kulusic left New Jersey for Virginia at the urging of friends. Richmond was his old stomping grounds: In 2016, while an undergraduate at the University of Konstanz in southern Germany studying political science and public administration, he spent a semester at the University of Richmond.
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Opening Concert of Appalachian Music by Tyler Hughes
Join Shoestring Theatre Company for an evening outdoors with the premiere of its first film, Appalachian music and dinner on the grounds at this Spotlight on the Arts event.
I Ain’t Made that Way, with a concert byTyler Hughes will premiere on Saturday, April 24 at 7 p.m. in Veterans Amphitheater, 10455 Armstrong Street, Fairfax. The outdoor space, located next to city hall, will hold up to 100socially distanced patrons. Tickets are sold individually orin pods of four. I Ain’t Made That Way invites the audience to join the Van Buren family of Keokee, Virginia as they celebrate the accomplishments of their favorite son. Harlan Van Buren has just earned two Masters’ Degrees and the whole community has gathered at t