Five questions for Flory Jagoda, Sephardic music’s “keeper of the flame”
Jagoda performs at Congregation Beth Israel later this week
What’s going on this weekend?
UVA museum opens a couple of great new exhibits, local rockers salute Hendrix and National Stand-up Comedy returns.
Sissy Spacek memoir due in 2012
"I just wish I had studied harder in English class," she says in a statement
Governor Bob McDonnell and Garth Brooks: BFFs?
The unlikely pair came together for an ad that promotes the Old Dominion’s tourism and film industries
PCA aims to find out how much local arts are worth
If you’re leaving a concert this year, and some stranger walks up to you to ask what you had for dinner, or where you’re sleeping that night, do not—I repeat—do not be alarmed. It’s only a study, spearheaded by the Piedmont Council for the Arts, which aims to determine just how great an impact spending […]
Which books were most circulated at the library this year?
Sue Grafton’s "U is for Undertow" took the cake
Cute alert: CASPCA has an Elvis-themed adoption special
You ain’t nothing but a (future) hound dog (owner).
Wes Swing repeats himself
Wes Swing taught high school Latin for two years before devoting his time to music. A love of the classics comes through in his imagist lyrics and formally literate arrangements.