UVA alum creates a different way to start the day
Holt Walker made the leap from software to cereal, prompted by an issue that turned out to be an opportunity. “It was really just kind of out of a personal […]
The trio that saved our downtown cinema forecasts the Oscars
And the Oscar goes to… The Testament of Ann Lee! You won’t hear that at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, but you would if Rachel Baker, Annie Galvin, […]
David Vaughn Straughn plays August Wilson in one-man show
“You can’t say nothing bad about August Wilson,” says actor/playwright/director David Vaughn Straughn. Nor does he have any plans to. The director of Live Arts’ acclaimed 2022 production of Dominique […]
Smyrna chef Tarik Sengul earns James Beard nomination
Smyrna has been around for less than four years, but that’s long enough for chef and co-founder Tarik Sengul to get the attention of the prestigious James Beard Foundation: Sengul […]
Ben is back
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz returns to the Virginia Film Festival to discuss director Ang Lee’s 1997 drama The Ice Storm, and to introduce The Sting at a Robert […]
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Every artist who hits it big faces an inevitable question: What do I do for a follow-up? Bruce Springsteen confronted it after his fifth album, […]
Blue Ridge Irish Music School celebrates 25 years of cultural connection
Some childhood interests turn out to be just a passing fancy. But that was not the case for Fiona Balestrieri when she was a young musician. “My first instrument was […]
Musician and actor Jim Waive poured his heart into the joy of music
Long before he stepped onto a stage, Jim Waive was putting on a show. “Our household was filled with music,” recalls Patti Rightmier, one of Jim’s three older sisters. “My mom […]
Loving Cup is the only certified-organic winery in Virginia
On a sunny, breezy Sunday morning in late April, Mary Ames is paying for her membership in the Loving Cup Wine Club, but not by credit card or cash. Instead, […]
Photographer Ézé Amos reconnects with new perspectives
Did you hear the one about the photographer who went out of his way to take terrible pictures? It’s no joke. For his latest project, Ézé Amos, whose photojournalism has […]