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A handmade tale

I am sick to death of reading about food. Over the past decade, the preciosity of the new approach to cuisine has...

Stargazers

The President of Chile is running about an hour late. Not surprising, perhaps, considering the dedication ceremony...

Noises on

Early February. Three and a half weeks before the opening of Live Arts’ new main stage production, In the Next Room...

A new film from “The Sopranos” creative team opens the...

There’s a moment in Not Fade Away, the new film by “The Sopranos” creator David Chase that’s screening as the opening...

Virginia Film Festival celebrates 25 years of changing...

The phrase “calm like a duck” comes to mind. It is late September, 11 days before the announcement of the lineup for...

Freedom is just another word for Kris Kristofferson

At some point quite early in your long life it dawned on you that you had already written the words the world is...

On life, death, art, and being Sissy Spacek

Our Oscar-winning neighbor digs for bedrock in new memoir