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Negative ions may have a positive effect on your health

Winter is here, which means daylight is scarce and cold temperatures make most people want to spend a majority of...

Ash Lawn Opera’s Amahl and the Night Visitors builds...

Where Ash Lawn Opera’s summer season showcases imported artists delivering world class opera to Charlottesville, the...

Oh, behave! Should you connect with someone new while on...

Modern dating is full of etiquette land mines, from appropriate texting to when to “friend” request. But here is one...

Critical thinking

(To be read with “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by the Clash as proper background music.) One huge problem with...

The trouble with benefits

A few weeks ago I saw a play at Four County Players called I Love You Because, a cute modern day romantic musical...

Pencil me in

In the age of instant communication, everyone is busy. I get that. I am busy too. As a single mom who works two jobs,...

Labels and love

Gigantic news flash: I have met someone I really like and they like me back! Yep. After three years of agonizing...

Love in the age of smartphones

The universe lacks a person more devoted to their iPhone than I. Ever since my ex-husband insisted we change phone...

Civil libertarian expresses himself through “Instant...

When John Whitehead drew the monsters and violent scenes from his imagination as a child, his teachers deemed his...

Arts Extra

Heritage Theatre Festival’s 1776 is like a long version "School House Rock" episode on the signing of the Declaration...