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- Golden Globes 2015: The good, the bad and the Jeremy Renner
- Rodriguez, 'Transparent' win TV Globes
- Golden Globes 2015: Who could go home with the gold tonight
- A mad, mad world: New season of 'The Real World' brings out the skeletons
- The best TV of 2014: 'Hannibal,' 'True Detective,' 'Game of Thrones'
- Couch Potato: Mandy Patinkin, Peter Dinklage among 2014's best performers
- Retro-funk stylist Mark Ronson gets a boost from Bruno Mars, Mystikal and Stevie Wonder on new album
- Worth the drive: Americana/bluegrass band Yarn to play in Rocky Mount
- Brothers through music: Bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent to perform in Appomattox
- Local blues band Poorhouse Road offers a high-energy experience
- The People’s Choice Awards usher in a season of post-holidaze fun for Iggy Azalea, Pharrell Williams, Taylor Swift, and, most of all, Katy Perry
- Best music of 2014: Dave Grohl, Jack White, Charli XCX and more
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- Cornershot: Roanoke County historian's Stanley Brothers expertise evident in new book
- Book review: Amy Poehler's 'Yes Please' a delightful, down-to-earth read
- 2015 at the movies: New 'Star Wars,' 'Mad Max' reboot and more
- Primitive son: Blues musician Eli Cook keeps the genre alive
- Man on a mission: Glass grad Devon Morris returns from two-year mission in Mexico
- 'Breaking Bad' spin-off, 'Better Call Saul,' among winter TV premieres
- 'American Sniper' astounds with $105.3 million over MLK weekend
- 'Birdman,' 'Budapest top Oscar nominations with 9 nods each
- Movie review: 'American Sniper' is quintessential Eastwood
- 'The Babadook': Old haunt with a frightening twist
- Film review: 'Unbroken' is beautiful, but impersonal
- The battle of the Christmas Carols
- Jefferson Forest's Cavalier Theatre tackling shock-and-awe French farce
- The Neverland you never knew: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' coming to Lynchburg
- Liberty University's School of Music presents 'I Pagliacci'
- Woman honors 'high art of domestic skills' with exhibit
- Renaissance Theatre holding New Year's Eve fundraiser
- Appomattox Courthouse Theatre presenting one-man reading of 'A Christmas Carol'
- Nov 19 Hop Head: Pint night with Charlottesville's Champion Brewing Company
- Oct 22 The art of beer: From tap handles to beer cans, breweries focus on designs
- Oct 9 Hop Head - The Hoosier State: It’s not all about bball
- Sep 24 Hop Head: Some non-American beers to end our sixer series
- Sep 18 Hop Head: A seasonal sixer that will spice up your fall
- Sep 10 Hop Head: Make your own sixers at high-end grocery stores
What's New
The Great Room: New restaurant mixes passion, authenticity
Whether owner Peter Greenberg and chef Jim Garrison were traveling to Indiana — during a snowstorm — to secure the perfect pizza oven or making pilgrimages to New York City to eat at the restaurant on which they based that pie, “just one menu item was a three-month ordeal,” Garrison says, only half joking.
Actor Keith Tyree talks Lynchburg, 'Lincoln' and staring down Tommy Lee Jones
Tyree has worked as a professional actor in the Virginia area for close to 30 years. He can currently be seen on Amazon's original series "Point of Honor."
What made me happy this month: 'Marvel's Agent Carter,' Jimmy Kimmel on 'The Bachelor' and more
NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, one of my favorite podcasts, always ends with a segment during which host Linda Holmes and her cohorts talk about what’s making them happy that week. I thought it would be fun to do the same, but at the end of each month moving forward.
Movie review: Jennifer Aniston gets a make-under in the drab 'Cake'
Ah, to de-glam. It's one of the surest shortcuts to newfound artistic appreciation: a bedraggled deviation into dowdy drama by a beautiful star. Acclaim by way of sweatpants.
Cornershot: Roanoke County historian's Stanley Brothers expertise evident in new book
The weight of Gary Reid’s knowledge of the lives, times and music of the Stanley Brothers is evidenced by the heft of his new book.
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