Step through the bronze doors of The Liberty Trust hotel and you enter a lofted lobby anchored by stately marble columns and featuring an ornate vault door, propped wide open. What once served as the main vault at a historic bank building in downtown Roanoke is now the breakfast nook and tas…
Among the highlights of this year’s Virginia Arts Festival is the world premiere of a mandolin concerto composed by Chris Thile and co-commissioned by Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Thile, a four-time Grammy Award winner, will perform the work May 19-21 with the orchestra, conducted by Eric Ja…
The boarded-up white behemoth sits a few hundred yards from downtown Danville and more than a half-century from its heyday. But the iconic White Mill building, with its almost 550,000 square feet of space on the Dan River, is more than a simple reminder of better times; it’s a symbol of the …
As a child Katie Denton would travel to Maryland’s Gibson Island to visit her great-grandparents and Key West to visit her maternal grandparents, so some of her fondest memories took place in quaint cottages on the water.
Late in Act II of “Othello,” James Keegan, in the role of Iago, lays out his plan for vengeance against the title character. Having been passed over for a promotion, Iago, full of anger and entitlement, asks “How am I, then, the villain?”
Aislinn Lewis is a journeyman blacksmith in Colonial Williamsburg’s historic trades division. She’s the museum’s only female blacksmith and one of few in the profession at large. We sat down with her to talk about hammering out a place in a male-dominated profession.
Chefs can work their entire careers and never have their names uttered in the same sentence as the James Beard Awards. That honor, the so-called Oscars of the food world, can turn ordinary cooks into culinary superstars and culinary superstars into icons.
When it comes to spirits made in Virginia there is one undisputed king – bourbon. It gets all the press. Some even argue that the sweet brown liquor was born here. But the truth is fruit brandy has a longer, and possibly grander, history in the commonwealth.
It’s a drizzly, overcast morning in May and Ash Hobson Carr is busy preparing flowers for a weekend farmers market. Clad in long sleeves, bluish-gray pants, weathered brown boots, and a khaki baseball cap, she sets off from the far corner of the Mechanicsville property on which her farm sits…
Tucked away in a neighborhood overlooking the Lafayette River, Norfolk’s Hermitage Museum & Gardens gives off the cozy retreat vibe its name implies. But with up to 100,000 visitors a year, the museum is in fact a popular destination for art lovers from all over the state.