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FREE The Lynchburg Times Vol. II, Issue 8 • February 24, 2011 Crime 4 Tourism 5 Law symposium 6 New boating rules 6 iPads for Council 10 Heritage HS 11 Blogging seminar 13 • City Schools’ health care costs increase by MILLIONS 13 What• Calendar to doof events and 2 • Crime of the week 5 Dave Matthews Band member to play at where to go for • State budget battle 6 Lynchburg’s Stoney Badger Mar. 2nd Valentine’s• No love for refinancing Day homeowners 10 3 Community Calendar 2-3 Crime Sign, sign, 9 4 everywhere a sign... 5 FREE in Kroger, Food Lion, McDonalds & More • 20,000 local readers! BLACK Page • The Lynchburg Times • February 4 - March , 011 Read every issue online at www.lynchburgtimes.com Thursday, Feb 24 reservations are only available by calling the Theatre. Confederate Railroad in Concert from 8:00pm- We look forward to seeing you at this special 11:30pm at Phase 2 Dining & Entertainment, 4009 The Lynchburg Times “New Perspectives of African-American Life performance. Please e-mail [email protected] Murray Place. 434-846-3206 • News@Phase2Club. in Antebellum Central Virginia” from 7:00pm- or call (434) 845-4427 for more information. com • www.phase2club.com Often described as www.lynchburgtimes.com 9:00pm at Lynchburg College Sydnor Performance a cross between Alabama and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hall, 1501 Lakeside Dr. 434-525-1806 • www. Saturday, Feb 26 Confederate Railroad made their name with a party- poplarforest.org In honor of Black History Month, ready hybrid of modern country and Southern rock. Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest will cosponsor this 7th Annual Downtown Lynchburg Loft Tour from year’s John M. Turner Lecture in the Humanities at 10:00am-4:00pm in Downtown Lynchburg. 434-847- Sunday, Feb 27 Lynchburg College entitled “New Perspectives on 5866 • [email protected] • www.fccv.net The Seventh African-American Life in Antebellum Central Virginia.” Annual Downtown Lynchburg Loft Tour will be held Beauty and the Greeks at the Maier Museum from A panel of historians will discuss changing views on on Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 10:00am to 1:00am-5:00pm at Maier Museum of Art at Randolph the importance of African-Americans in antebellum 4:00pm to benefit the Free Clinic of Central Virginia. College, 1 Quinlan Street. 434-947-8136. museum@ Central Virginia. The panel, made up of distinguished New, different buildings will be open for the tour. randolphcollege.edu or www.maiermuseum.org Each scholars in the field of African-American history, (SNOW Date: March 4) Admission Fee for Loft Tour year FRAME, Randolph College’s student docent includes Poplar Forest archaeologist, Lori Lee, & Reception are tax deductible: Advance purchase: club, selects a faculty member to give a lecture on Lynchburg College professor, Dr. Kirt von Daacke, $20 per ticket Day of Event: $25 per ticket. Tickets interdisciplinary perspectives of art and aesthetics. and Dr. Andrew Witmer of James Madison University. Available at Free Clinic, Visitor Center, Westminster- This year, Dr. Amy R. Cohen, Associate Professor of The lecture will include a question and answer period Canterbury and Good Cherry. NOTE: Approximately Classics and director of the Randolph College Greek following the presentations. The lecture at Lynchburg 80% of the Lofts will be handicapped accessible; Play will share her research and insights into Greek College is free and open to the public. they will be marked as such on the tickets and the conceptions of beauty and the sublime. The ancient Publisher & Editor: maps. Tour 8-10 New Furnished Lofts in Downtown Greeks lay the foundations for nearly every aspect Dan McDermott Friday, Feb. 25 Lynchburg. Reception Following the Tour: The Free of modern Western culture, and nowhere so much [email protected] Clinic ~ 1016 Main Street ~ (4 pm to 5:30 pm) ~ so as in the arts. The Greeks have been renowned Ellington Fridays with Volume 3 from 5:30pm- Refreshments provided by Local Restaurants for their sculpture, painting, literature, and pottery 9:00pm at The Ellington, 421 Rivermont Avenue. Park FREE all day on Saturdays! Ride the “Tour” Bus for more than 2000 years. The ancient Greeks also 434-845-2162 • www.theellington.org Do you want provided by Westminster-Canterbury. Shop, Dine & invented theatre, which combines visual and verbal to hear some of the best local bands and grab a bite Have Fun ~ Downtown Lynchburg. It’s Exciting! It’s arts to hold a mirror up to human society. This event to eat for only 10 bucks? Volume 3 takes the stage Different! It’s Fun! It’s for a good cause! is FREE and open to the public. A reception will for Ellington Fridays. Doors open at 5:30 with music follow. from 6:00 to 9:00. Tickets are $10 and available at Bliss A Fine Wedding Fair from 11:00am-4:00pm at the door only. Riverviews Artspace, 901 Jefferson Street. 434-851- Wednesday, Mar. 2 Cash bar available. 2224 [email protected] www.hillcitybride. com/bliss-a-fine-wedding-fair Local wedding blog, Jeff Coffin & The Mu’tet from 9pm - 1:30 am at The Comedy Zone - Lynchburg from 6:30pm-10:00pm Hill City Bride, is hosting its first event, which is Stoney Badger Tavern, 3009 Old Forest Rd. 434- at Kirkley Hotel Ballroom, 2900 Candlers Mountain designed to be a fun, upscale wedding conference. 594-3674 • stoneybadger.com Admission is $15. Rd. 434-455-1319 • [email protected] www. Brides and their guests will learn fun tips and tricks Advance tickets are available and are suggested as kirkleyhotel.com for wedding planning while being connected with space is limited. The event is open only to adults age Advertising Sales Manager: Friday and Saturday - February 25th & 26th. the vendors that can make their wedding dreams 21 and older. The Mu’tet is led by 3-time Grammy Angie Buterakos Headliner - KIER. Joining Kier is feature act - TORIAN come true. There are informative and exciting panel winning saxophonist & composer Jeff Coffin. On tour [email protected] HUGHES. Showtimes Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm. discussions along with interactive workshops. Be with Dave Matthews Band since 2008 and with Bela 540-683-9197 Doors open at 6:30pm for Dinner & Cocktails sure to register for this event online! Cost: $15 which Fleck & the Flecktones since 1997, Coffin strives to includes a catered lunch expand himself, his band-mates and listeners with Sales Team: A Couple of Schmoes from 8:00pm-10:00pm at It’s All Beneath Our Feet from 2:00pm-4:00pm music flavored by his wide musical interests. Renaissance Theatre, 1022 Commerce Street. at Amazement Square, 27 Ninth Street. 434-845- Dianne Tranks: 434-258-3326 434-845-4427 • [email protected] www. 1888 • [email protected] • www. Thursday, Mar. 3 [email protected] renaissancetheatre.info A Couple of Schmoes amazementsquare.com Did you know that our benefit performance for Habitat for Humanity and Earth holds secrets in layers beneath our feet? Find Pop Evil in Concert from 8:00pm-11:30pm at Phase Michael Bull: 540-660-1199 Renaissance Theatre featuring Bill Bodine and out what the Earth would look like cut in half, what 2 Dining & Entertainment, 4009 Murray Place. Charlie Catalano February 25, 26 “Pay What You sedimentary layers can tell us about our planet’s 434-846-3206. [email protected] • www. [email protected] Will” Admission! Bill Bodine and Charlie Catalano will past and how the ground we stand on can create phase2club.com Melodic post-grunge Pop Evil was be performing for one weekend only in a self-directed mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes! Get ready named as one of iTunes “Top New Artists of 2008”. Alison Duvall: 540-551-2072 show entitled A Couple of Schmoes. The show will to dig deep and use clay to create some layers of Tight, sharp-edged and catchy hard-driving tunes [email protected] entertain you with skits from The Odd Couple, the your own! solidify their place in a category with Crossfade, classic “Who’s on First” and other monologues and Shinedown, and Puddle of Mudd. Tickets On Sale Sceauncia Parr: 434-207-8581 short, silly scenes. Refreshments will be available It’s All Beneath Our Feet from 2:00pm-4:00pm at Now! $10. Ages: 21 & up; Dress: Relaxed; Door [email protected]: for your edible delight. Bill and Charlie will be doing Amazement Square, 27 Ninth Street in Lynchburg. Open: 7:00PM two performances only on Friday and Saturday, 434-845-1888 • [email protected] • February 25 and 26th at 8:00 p.m. each night. They www.amazementsquare.com Did you know that our Kendra Heath: 434-209-3046 are such nice guys that they are doing this to benefit Earth holds secrets in layers beneath our feet? Find Add your event to [email protected] Habitat for Humanity and Renaissance Theatre, so out what the Earth would look like cut in half, what your admission cost is up to you - ANY donation will sedimentary layers can tell us about our planet’s this calendar free. Political Writer: be accepted and greatly appreciated. So open your past and how the ground we stand on can create Just post it on the wallets and come have a fun night at the Theatre! mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes! Get ready Community Calendar at Emily Williams Seating is limited so you MUST call to make a to dig deep and use clay to create some layers of [email protected] reservation. Please call Renaissance Theatre at your own! 434-845-4427 to leave a message. For this event, MyLynchburg.net BLACK Read every issue online at www.lynchburgtimes.com February 4 - March , 011 • The Lynchburg Times • Page Dave Matthews Band member to perform in Lynchburg By Dan McDermott Fleck & the Flecktones and the Dave Mat- horns also.