According to Dark Star Orchestra percussionist Rob Koritz, the seven-piece cover band is “fanatical” about capturing the spirit of each Grateful Dead show it reenacts. When DSO takes the Ting […]
Recounting the experiences of an around-the-world trip, author and poet Ebony Walden’s new memoir, Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents, engages deeply with her childhood in New […]
Self-described “fresh organ trio” Parlor Greens built its funky instrumental reputation with In Green We Dream, the band’s 2024 debut. The three pros of R&B music—Tim Carman (Canyon Lights, formerly […]
A look back at Robert Cray’s career traces the bluesman working his way up as a student of masters before becoming a legendary musician himself. Inspired by Albert Collins, Freddie […]
Fifty years after the 1976 Judgment of Paris—a blind tasting in France that upended the world’s assumptions about great wine regions when California labels beat out some legendary French ones—Virginia […]
Student stories are the headliner at Light House Studio’s 25th Annual Youth Film Festival, but it’s also the biggest fundraiser of the year for the organization that provides unique filmmaking […]
Like ancients made visible, Virginia is home to 25 species of turtles, many of them already in decline or vulnerable to it, due to eroding federal protections that went into […]
Executed well, songwriting is a skill that stands up to just about any style. That is to say, even if the dressing up of a track is not to your […]
It’s been just over a year since Molly Tuttle dissolved her Grammy Award-winning bluegrass quintet Golden Highway, but the band’s virtuosic fiddle player Bronwyn wasted no time getting back on […]
Dear Evan Hansen follows a high school senior with social anxiety and depression who falls into a complicated coverup after a simple mistake leads to tragedy. Fabricated friendships, fraught family […]