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JarMarcus King, who co-owns a Williamsburg-based technology company, teaches Hampton students how to assemble a robotics kit.

Williamsburg business owner shares his love for technology with students

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JarMarcus King and his wife opened Reality Link Arena in Williamsburg. It offers training for businesses, but also spaces and tools for students from Hampton schools to test and learn new tech.

Author Suzanne Snowden during a presentation at a recent conference in Chesapeake for independent writers.

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Authors teaching authors at the Chesapeake 'Indie Author Experience' conference

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Actor John Bell of the popular time-traveler "Outlander" series at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. The museum recently opened

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'Outlander' exhibition in Yorktown bridges time and history through costumes

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The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown recently opened a special exhibition, 'Outlander: Costumes Woven in Time,' which features pieces from the popular TV series, 'Outlander.'

One of the stars of Virginia Stage Co.'s production of 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,' which opens Wednesday, is the coat. It is made from hundreds of pieces of quilted fabric in which people, including performers and audience members from other shows, were asked to write down their dreams.

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'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' inspires everyone to shine

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The Virginia Stage Co.'s production of the Rice-Webber classic, 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,' opens Wednesday at the Wells Theatre.

Fashion designer Christian Siriano installing pieces for his exhibition at Richmond's The Branch Museum of Design.

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Richmond's Branch Museum of Design has a fashion exhibition that's 'Undeniable'

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The Branch Museum of Design partnered with VCUarts to create the fashion and art design show, "Undeniable: The Designs of Christian Siriano + Ashley Longshore."

Letters that Taylor Miller received from her great-grandmother before her great-grandmother died in 2007. When her great-grandmother was a teen in the 1940s, she wrote letters to a Hungarian pen pal, Yehudit Biksz. A picture of Biksz is on the right.

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The search for Yehudit: How a stack of letters resolved a decades-old mystery

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A random social media post connects two women — one in Norfolk, one in Israel — searching for answers.

The laptop of librarian Troy Valos displays one of the ship manifests transcribed for the Sold Down River project. (Image: Katherine Hafner)

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Local genealogy conference taking place in Ocean View on Sunday

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The novel 'This Here is Love" is set in 1692 in southeast Virginia. The work of Norfolk author Princess Joy L. Perry has received accolades from The New York Times and the Library Journal.

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Norfolk author's highly praised novel is bound by love, courage and resistance

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Princess Joy L. Perry's debut novel, 'This Here is Love,' is set in 17th-century Colonial Virginia and follows the overlapping lives of the free, the enslaved and the enslavers.

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'Giants,’ opening in Richmond, showcases Black art on a grand scale

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Husband and wife musicians and art collectors, Kasseem Dean 'Swizz Beatz' and Alicia Keys, have a traveling art show featuring more than 130 pieces from their collection. It opens at the Richmond Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on Saturday, Nov. 22.

Elijah Ahmad Lewis as Scarecrow and Dana Cimone as Dorothy in the North American Tour of "The Wiz."

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Broadway's 'The Wiz,' new music, same message, eases on down the road to Norfolk

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Elijah Ahmad Lewis, who plays the Scarecrow in the national tour, said he is well aware of the cultural relevance of the 50-year-old musical. The cast has modernized it for a new generation.