Z-TV LIVE! WELCOMES NEW HOST, GINA CAVALLARO
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BY SUSAN FLEISCHMAN Z-TV LIVE! is pleased to welcome longtime Alexandria resident, author and journalist Gina Cavallaro to its on-air staff as host and interviewer. And she’s starting her first appearance off with an exciting show, interviewing TV personality and Alexandria business owner Monte Durham on Wednesday, September 9. Gina’s journalism career began in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at WOSO, the island’s
English-language radio station. She moved on to the English-language newspaper, the San Juan Star, as reporter and editor. In 2000, Gina chose to live in Alexandria closer to fam-
DRIVE-IN CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 got the biggest one they have available,” said Allen. Some people got creative with their movie-watching style. One couple watched the movie from the back seat like they were on a date in the fifties, and whole families packed into minivans with some turning their cars around to open up the back doors and hatchbacks for maximum viewing potential. Patrons could bring their own fare or order from visiting food trucks. Everyone stayed in their cars while volunteers delivered food using electric bicycles provided by Pedego in Old Town, and instead of a cumbersome aluminum speaker hanging from the window, the audience tuned into a secret FM radio station to hear the actors and the dinosaurs roar. Presented by Building Momentum’s “The Garden” and ALX Community, the sixpart movie series sold out within four days of its announcement and has a wait-
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ily and served as press secretary for Puerto Rico Rep. Carlos Romero Barcelo. In 2001, she joined the staff at the Gannett-owned Army Times as editor and then reporter in a job that took her to the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Middle East, Europe and all over the country to cover U.S. troops. In 2010 Gina coauthored Sniper, a collection of stories on the highly specialized battlefield skill through the eyes of the soldiers and Marines who were trained as snipers. Now a senior staff writer for ARMY magazine, a monthly publication of the Association of the U.S. Army, Gina lives in Alexandria with her dog, Nacho.
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Gina is thrilled to join the Z-TV team, and is looking forward to reporting on the people and businesses that make Alexandria so great. “Look, we all know Alexandria is a fabulous little corner of the world. I can’t wait to share my take on it,” she said. “Everybody has a story and I am excited to bring those to our viewers.” Please join us on Z-TV LIVE! at 7 p.m., Wednesday, September 9, for Gina’s first show with Alexandria’s own Monte Durham star of TLC’s “Say Yes to the Dress” Find Z-TV LIVE! on Facebook at The Zebra Press with new shows every Monday through Thursday at 7 p.m. with musical guests, authors, local celebrities and business owners as well as civic and political leaders discussing Alexandria’s hot topics.
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ing list of 600. The collection of movie classics and family favorites will be shown every Saturday through October 3, with plans to add more dates. “The people on the waiting list will have the first chance
to get those tickets,” says Kelly Grant from ALX Community. Gates open at 7:15 p.m. Movies start at 8:30 p.m. The cost to enter is $30 per car per screening. All proceeds go to local charities. Masks are required when patrons are not in vehicles.
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