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Preston Long

Living

Bashir’s palace: An Algerian academic and his wife make the Downtown Mall their living room

I started hanging around Bashir’s Taverna a week before the Friday evening that Paris native and singer Jean Jacques, aka J.J., was booked to perform during the dinner service. J.J. had […]

Preston Long | August 13, 2013

News

Into the bookless future: As the county invests $20 million in new construction, libraries come to a fork in the road

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.–Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” In September, Albemarle County will open […]

Preston Long | June 18, 2013

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