The project would provide affordable live/work and gallery space in the Riverdale development.
Culture
Posted inCulture
50 years after ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ a question of how the Roanoke Valley could mark its connection to a literary masterpiece
Annie Dillard spent a dozen years in the Roanoke Valley, but there’s no official commemoration of her time there or of her Pulitzer-winning book.
Posted inCulture
Roanoke attorney helps reunite mother and child in international kidnapping case
Vicki Francois was tapped by the State Department to represent a woman in Mexico whose infant had been brought to Martinsville.
Posted inCulture
Landmark Southwest Virginia theater to finish 2024 season as building goes up for auction
The iconic Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre building has stood next to Interstate 81 in Wytheville for a quarter-century.
Posted inCulture
Henrietta Lacks, ‘mother of modern medicine,’ statue unveiled in her childhood home of Halifax County
A statue of Henrietta Lacks, the mother of modern medicine, was unveiled in South Boston
Posted inCulture
Court of Appeals blocks transfer of giraffes from Natural Bridge Zoo
One has been moved to South Carolina but the other three remain in Rockbridge County and now, legal limbo.
Posted inCulture
Judge allows Rockbridge County to move 4 giraffes from Natural Bridge Zoo
Complicating the discussion of what should happen to the giraffes: Two are currently pregnant.
Posted inCulture
After ‘near-death experiences’ on the road, Canadian blues guitarist Sue Foley writes a song about ‘cruel old 81’
She says she wanted to pay homage to both the “treacherous” road and also the birthplace of country music in Bristol.
Posted inCulture
Recent Bigfoot sightings at Wintergreen were a hoax. But these men say they’ve seen the real thing in the woods of Virginia
This weekend’s Bigfoot festival at the Nelson County resort welcomes skeptics and true believers alike. Among the latter: Daniel Benoit of Augusta County, who has tales to tell.
Posted inCulture
Jefferson alumni reflect on their teenage years amid integration in anticipation of the school’s 100th anniversary
Some alumni of the old Roanoke high school say they’re heartened by a proposal to open a magnet school in the building.