Arts & Culture

A band from Appalachia is touring now, raising issues about this country’s current political climate.

If you’re an avid reader, you may want to mark your calendar for March 20th through the 22nd. That’s when about 150 authors will be in Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book.

Most teenagers fantasize at some point about becoming a recording star. Now, some Roanoke Valley middle and high schoolers are getting a hands-on lesson in how to produce songs.

Seth Michelson has written a new book about those kids and other migrants he’s met. It’s called Hope on the Border.

A play about the making of a cinema classic is in the works at a community theater in Roanoke.

Giant blue boulders suspend from the ceiling and whimsical mushroom sculptures are dotted throughout the gallery in a new 3-D art exhibit on display at the Radford University art museum.

Two Roanoke institutions will pay tribute next month to a pioneering filmmaker who for three years operated out of the historic Gainsboro neighborhood, and who left a lasting mark on movies.

The Olin Galleries at Roanoke College will host local artist Jake Smith’s upcoming exhibit “Thoughts and Prayers.” The show opens January 23.

Electronic keyboard sales outnumber acoustics ten to one. They are cheaper and easier to maintain. But one man in Virginia says he still keeps busy ensuring existing instruments – which can last a hundred years or more – stay in tune.

Charlie-Man, about a Richmond man's final year at a prep school, is Thomas Cullen's first novel.