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Enter: a lively dinner party. Lots of crosstalk. Women in a startling array of historical costumes. There’s Isabella...

Chicho Lorenzo paints through barriers at local exit

When painter and muralist Chicho Lorenzo saw the 7′ tall retaining wall along Barracks Road near the 250 bypass, he...

Photo project shows people through another lens

As the events of August 11 and 12 unfolded across Charlottesville, photojournalist Sarah Cramer Shields watched it...

A Christmas Story sings out at Four County Players

Whether you fell in love with the leg lamp, the pink bunny suit or the double-dog-dare to lick a frozen flagpole, you...

VHO’s Sympathy was centuries in the making

I’ll be honest: I’m not really an opera person. Until this weekend, I assumed opera consisted of people in fancy...

Local women break through in fantasy and horror

‘‘My book came out last year a week before the presidential elections,” says Madeline Iva, author of the fantasy...

Second Street Gallery flirts with the dark side

Peter Benedetti never planned to make a deck of tarot cards. Instead, you might argue, the cards found him. “It’s not...

Lisa Parker Hyatt’s Miami imagery hits home

Even though she lives in the nation’s capital now, Lisa Parker Hyatt can’t leave Miami behind. “I spent most of my...

Russell Richards carves new place for himself

After 17 years with McGuffey Art Center, artist and filmmaker Russell Richards is moving on. Blame it on the windows....

Kluge-Ruhe holds up the mirror

Following last month’s local violence by neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups, many people are...