Live From the DNC: From the streets to the nosebleed seats
An eventful day here in Charlotte. For me, it started with a Planned Parenthood rally at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Yes, this is probably the first time in history […]
Follow Jen Sorensen’s Democratic National Convention Twitter feed
You can follow Jen Sorensen’s DNC Twitter feed here. Excerpt: “Welcome to the show. Same lofty seats I had last time.”
ARTS Pick: Zammuto at The Southern
Wednesday 9/5 Workbook Being innovative is exhausting work. Nick Zammuto could have decided that, after a prolific stint with cellist Paul de Jong as The Books, he’d coast with the street cred he […]
Live From the DNC: Soggy Labor Day Slog
Remember what I said yesterday about getting around easily? Forget it. The bus route I’d mastered practically ceased to exist, thunderstorms pounded the city, and the sidewalks were packed. At […]
Local bluegrass band talks about their day as Presidential troubadors
A local bluegrass band being asked to play for the President of the United States…what are the odds? That’s what we thought until a dear friend with a connection to […]
PEC works to turn backyards into native wildlife habitats
Who doesn’t love looking out the kitchen window at all the feathered friends Central Virginia’s backyards have to offer? Unfortunately, due to declining grassland and shrubland areas in the region, […]
Neighboring counties differ on approaches to school consolidation
Ongoing discussions about rural county schools have raised one question over and over: Are small schools worth preserving for the sake of community, even if it means spending more money? […]
Convention check-in: Enduring the parties’ parties
Well, here we go again. With the Democratic party spending this week in North Carolina celebrating the re-nomination of President Barack Obama, and the Republicans still cleaning up from their hurricane-shortened […]
A Staunton couple envisions a surprising downtown home
For Katie and Ty McElroy, the white-picket-fence, manicured-lawn version of the American dream wasn’t appealing. Preparing in 2010 to move to Staunton from Lexington, the couple set their sights on […]
ARTS Pick: John Cage Mushroom Walk
Wednesday 9/5 The sound of shroomin’ The work of John Cage can hardly be categorized. A revered audio experimentalist, sound pioneer, writer, and insightful painter, he is lesser known as a […]