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Weekend Virginia 1 - 8.28.10

Veggie Chef Andrea Mattioni makes black bean burgers...Steve Brown shows us how composers "borrow" from one another

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Weekend Virginia 2 - 8.28.10

Larry Bly returns with more broadcasting stories...Annie Johnson with the Blue Ridge Business Journal reports on her covnersation with Virginia's Director of Business Assistance...Washington and Lee's Amanda Bower finishes the story of her China trip

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Weekend Virginia 3 - 8.28.10

Sandy Hausman reports on allegations of workplace bullying at the Virginia Quarterly Review...We learn why truckers might be better off with a map than with a GPS system...How Dudski would fix baseball

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Weekend Virginia 1 - 8.21.10

How families with autistic and schizophrenic children are turning to the farm for help...a Hokie comes home to write about Virginia Tech football...The Sweded Film Festival comes to Roanoke.

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Weekend Virginia 2 - 8.21.10

Veggie Chef Andrea Mattioni makes polenta medallions and the host doesn't get any...Steve Brown introduces us to the work of 20th Century composer Norman Dello Joio...Amanda Bower goes shopping in China...Blogger Waldo Jaquith is glad broadband is on its way to Southwest Virginia.

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Weekend Virginia 3 - 8.21.10

Floyd County teacher Jerry Sawter recalls some highlights from back-to-school meetings...Annie Johnson with The Blue Ridge Business Journal updates on plans for a historic Roanoke building...bed bugs are back and an expert tells us how to avoid bringing them home with us...Dudski the Sports blogger looks for the proper balance between anthropology and football.

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Virginia Film Festival 2010 - 8.17.10

It's still more than two months away, but organizers of the Virginia Film Festival are sharing the news of the first celebrity that will attend the event. WVTF's Sandy Hausman was on hand for the big announcement in Charlottesville.

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Weekend Virginia 1 - 8.14.10

In this segment, Blogger Waldo Jaquith talks about the Google-Verizon deal and what it could mean for the internet; Veggie Chef Andrea Mattioni puts together a nice cold soup for a hot summer day and group problem-solving at Virginia Tech.

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Weekend Virginia 2 - 8.14.10

In this segment: we visit a unique art exhibit in Charlottesville; a website dedicated to that weird stuff your parents have on display; a report from the Blue Ridge Business Journal's Annie Johnson about Virginia's effort to attract investment from Asia; Amanda Bower tells us more about her trip to China and the time when Virginia's state parks were for whites only.

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Weekend Virginia 3 - 8.14.10

In this segment: a peaceful float on a gentle river turns out to be something very different indeed; saving money on back-to-school shopping at the thrift store; Tchaikovsky gets a bad review and the last laugh; Oldtime Fiddlers compete at Galax and a  Virginia traditional music band that became famous, almost.

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