The Pit, a new music venue that’s open to all genres but learns toward metal, just opened in an old warehouse on Kemper Street.

Hummingbirds, and the flying squirrels that find ways to feed on the sugar water set out for the hummers, require thinking about things from different angles—including upside down.

As food prices rise, more people are expected to plant gardens this year. Here are a few ideas for things that might grow well in your garden.

Spring cleaning isn’t just for your closet. It’s for your makeup, too.

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. – Never mind the sunny skies.

Dolly Parton showed up in a raincoat, ready to show off a new Dollywood ride called “River Battle.“

Donald H. Mustard is the veterans service officer for both the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 8 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8184.

Second bananas sometimes come in first.

The annual tour of historical homes and buildings in Amherst County is set for Saturday.

Andy Henson learned what he knows the hard way.

Joanne Nash specializes in trompe l’oeil—the art of painting images that are so realistic they fool the eye.

Salsa is a form of music and a dance, and it’s happening in Lynchburg

Building a Virginia Tech memorial motorcycle was a labor of love.

Randy Simpson’s love of motorcycles has taken him far. Most recently, it enabled him to help build a memorial bike for victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Don’t give up, says actor Chuck Carrington, who grew up in Lynchburg and went on to do film and television work.

Anne Spencer was known nationally and internationally as one of the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. But some folks who live in the city she called home have never heard of her. So some local artists decided to try to change that by making a film.

Folk, a new boutique, has opened in a building on Fifth Street that once stood empty.
Slideshow: Fashion by Folk

“Art For the Cure: A Pink Ribbon Show” will open at the Lynchburg Art Club Sunday with a reception from 1:30 to 4 p.m. The show will remain up until April 13, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

After years of traveling the world, Carolyne Wright has learned to pack lightly.

Our lives are sprinkled with moments, big and small, that take us out of our daily routines and make us feel alive. The rush of wind on our cheeks as we ride a bike for the first time. The last hug before going off to college. The unfamiliar smell of a new apartment.

Editor’s note: The News & Advance recently featured a story about the basics of crafted beer, including some made in breweries right in our own backyard. Now, we offer a visit to one of those breweries as part of our Backyard Adventures series.

You never quite know what’s in store at the shows being put on by an artists’ collective at the Mezzanine Performance Gallery and Café in downtown Lynchburg.

Allen Blanks, who has been keeping bees for 60 years, sees some ways people are like bees.

Through the years, eight women have worn the same wedding gown when they walked down the aisle.

When Paul Clay-Rooks, a resident director at Randolph College, read about the brutalization of women in some parts of Africa, he wanted to help. So he spent spring break walking from Lynchburg to Washington, D.C., to raise money.

Ask Jim Koger about former co-worker Jere Real and he’s full of adjectives: brilliant, eccentric, “a bonafide character.”