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Studio_Virginia - 11.20.09

A Floyd County music teacher releases a CD featuring his students ... a movie about marching bands that was filmed at UVA, plus Googling for the arts in Virginia, and how the song "John Brown's Body," came tp pass

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Studio_Virginia - 11.13.09

On this week's episode of Studio Virginia, two Roanoke authors release a memoir about a World war Two Navy torpedoman. Also, a Washington & Lee play features a fictional dialogue between Bernie Madoff and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Weisel.

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Studio_Virginia - 11.5.09

On this week's episode of Studio Virginia, a former Roanoke Times journalist now teaches others about multimedia story platforms; an "old school" Charlottesville photographer; the Virginia School of the Arts in Lynchburg and a new book about the trees of Virginia.

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Studio_Virginia - 11.1.09

On this week's Studio Virginia, the History Society's "Paint for Preservation; a Roanoke Ballet Theatre student is bound for a prestigious school in DC and a Virginia Film Festival preview.

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Studio_Virginia - 10.22.09

On this week's Studio Virginia, a new documentary about local TV "horror hosts" called Virginia Creepers. Also, we'll feature singer-songwriter Darrell Scott, who returns to the Lyric in Blacksburg.

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Studio_Virginia - 10.15.09

On this week's program, a UVA professor-writer wins a genius grant; Roanoke's Grandin Theatre throws a big bash and a Charlottesville author writes about the second half of life.

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Studio_Virginia - 10.8.09

On this week's Studio Virginia, a spot light on art galleries at Roanoke area colleges; the valley's first "Create-a-thon," a First Amendment program for children at the Discovery Museum in Charlottesville, and the Carter Family musical heritage on display at Virginia Tech

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Studio_Virginia - 10.1.09

On this week's episode of Studio Virginia, the Big Lick Blues Festival returns to Roanoke; a new musical features a boy's struggle with autism in Charlottesville and the Southwest Virginia Ballet makes its season debut.

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Studio_Virginia - 9.24.09

On this episode of Studio Virginia, the Roanoke Arts Festival returns; a how-to guide for men dealing with a loved one's breast cancer, and an evening with Virginia Tech professor and poet Nikki Giovanni

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Studio_Virginia - 9.17.09

On this episode of Studio Virginia, a  sneak peak at Jefferson Center's new season; a first-time novelist writes about rural life and isolation in Southwestern Virginia, and former WVTF contributor Anna Wentworth is back in the studio with an art show of her own

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