Jason Barr
Freelance ReporterJason Barr is a long-time resident of the Valley. His academic work has appeared in The Explicator, African American Review, and The Journal of Carribean Literatures. His first book, The Kaiju Film, was released in 2016 by McFarland Press. He is currently a composition and literature teacher at Blue Ridge Community College.
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The pandemic sent lots of us home for work in late March, and many workers have settled into that routine as the pandemic worsens. The upheaval in our… -
The arts keep thriving, even in a time of social upheaval and a pandemic. This year, there have been several new volumes, anthologies, and collections of…
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Private property owners in Staunton learned last week that they would not get federal disaster aid for the estimated $3 million in damage caused by floods…
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If you have a college student in the family, chances are he or she is back home this week for Thanksgiving. But how is your student eating while on…
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More and more people are discovering the hard way that what you post on your Facebook or Twitter feed can come back to haunt you at your job. WMRA’s Jason…
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You might think that with all the superhero blockbusters in theaters these days, comic book stores would be raking in the cash. But almost the exact…
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Later this year, the card game Magic: The Gathering will hold a major qualifier tournament in Richmond. The grand prize is a half a million dollars and a…
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Virginia lawmakers voted Wednesday [April 2] to hike gas taxes in some parts of the state to improve Interstate 81. Earlier this year, trucking groups…
