Earl Hamner Jr. visited his namesake theater in Nellysford for a reading Thursday from his new novel and a book-signing.

Sixteen plain, white bras, size 36C, were given to local artists and quilters with just one instruction: “create some kind of artwork,” says LC biology professor Allison Jablonski, also a member of M.A.A.M.

Although I don’t watch television much and hardly ever go to a movie, I still consider myself a big fan of visual entertainment. Of course, it is the birds that put on a show for me and I tune in to that every day.

Lynchburg College’s Daura Gallery is celebrating “50 Years of Rock” with its latest show.

This month I will share a few of the questions I have heard from my clients and hope they will be helpful to you.

Colonial Williamsburg’s collection of historic pieces is going high-tech.

“Through Endangered Eyes” is an inspiring book of poetry and paintings describing the plight of 21 endangered and threatened animals. Written with simple verse, the poems are obviously meant to appeal to children, but the book seems to be written mainly for adults to read to children. Dillon beseeches adults to take action to help save these endangered species and to encourage their children to do the same.

For Casey Gillis, River Ridge mall’s new 14-screen stadium-seating movie theater feels like another world — one she likes very much.

ABINGDON – It’s perched above the forest floor, where nature sings outside the door, inviting as a place of rest, beside the birds a human nest.

The Morgan family plot at Old City Cemetery has always intrigued Ted Delaney.

With the centennial anniversary of World War I on its way, Don Wilson said he plans to bring a new dimension to the exhibits at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton.

The economic downturn has prompted people to scale back in a lot of ways.

I have never been a huge coffee drinker, but everyone in my family is. Growing up, there wasn’t a day that our single-cup coffee maker wasn’t working overtime to keep up with the demand each morning.

It was a lack of familiarity with advanced mathematics, Ralph King recalls, that derailed him from his first career choice of engineering.

With a computer or cell phone and an electronic tracking device, you can locate a missing pet, follow the path of a stolen car, find a skier buried in an avalanche and rescue a hiker lost in the woods.

When Ruskin Freer moved to Lynchburg in the 1920s, he began keeping very detailed records of the bird population in our area. Over the past 90 years we have continued to add details and now have a substantial amount of information about the birds that live in or pass through the Lynchburg vicinity. In 2004, when the local bird club published the most recent annotated checklist of the “Birds of Lynchburg,” 286 species were listed.

Companies from homebuilders to carmakers to airlines are rolling out job loss insurance programs to entice you to buy big-ticket items.

‘When I go to shows in other communities, people know about our show.‘

—Rosalie Loving Short, co-chair of Lynchburg Art Festival

Abigail Adams isn’t the only big name to visit Amherst.

‘It’s the perfect (event) for our school.‘

-Dawn Blankenship
VSA director of development

The downtown children’s museum is hosting a film festival.

With a piece set to Bjork, this is not your grandmother’s dance show.

Marlene Cambronero-Butkus’ love affair with Carolina Herrera perfume began more than two decades ago.

Eight little hands slide across a touch-screen computer, finding their way to Africa, Europe and North America. Beneath them, the giant monitor glows with a map of the world.

One of the first stories Mary Bailey remembers writing was a tale she co-authored with a friend in third grade.

Ken West is a professor at Lynchburg College. His book, ‘The Shelbys,’ has been translated into Indonesian and Czech. Readers may write to West in care of The News & Advance, P.O. Box 10129, Lynchburg, VA 24506.

This is one event that one break the bank.

Hartsville author Manson Drew Case plans to retrace Union Gen. William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia and South Carolina during his planned book signing tour over the next two years.

Think about what was happening on this date last year.

This artist uses Riverviews Artspace as her canvas.