Way back in the day — the late ’90s to be exact — there was a young man who wrote about the music scene here in Charlottesville. 

It must be exciting to fork out $100 and then come away with a big-time motorcycle signed by a very famous rock band.

For four centuries, they’ve dedicated their lives to demanding training to perfect their synchronized precision and magnificent leaps. And, no, we’re not talking about Olympic athletes.

Is anyone else tired?

Sure, you expect to hear plenty of whining and squawking when students return to school after a refreshing but addictive summer vacation. You just don’t want it coming out of your saxophone because you neglected to practice. 

When Anne Megibow first started teaching dance to Piedmont Virginia Community College students three decades ago, her classes met in the basement of St. Mark Lutheran Church. Since then, she has seen the dance program — and the college’s fine arts offerings — grow by leaps and bounds.

Most of us know that there is a problem with health care — particularly the cost and availability of adequate coverage. However, the facts are elusive, and some of us feel helpless about what to do about the situation.

There’s still time to enter the Greene County Fair’s demolition derby, but you can’t be a “possum.”

The largest all-women’s race in Virginia raised $230,000 last year for the University of Virginia Cancer Center Breast Care Program. This year organizers have increased the goal to $300,000. 

When Margie Shreve heard they needed help planning the Survivor Saturday for the Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler Training Program, she stepped up, knowing she had found her niche.

The Albemarle County Fair is back at the fairgrounds in North Garden through Sunday, so let’s start by answering the question callers most frequently ask:

If memory serves, a varietal is a wine made of mainly one variety of grape.

Go to lunch and help raise money in the fight against breast cancer.

Willie Nelson is on the road again. At 75, the Texas outlaw country legend is still burning biodiesel on the highways of America — touring with reckless abandon.

Easters in July.

Stephanie Rooker is coming home. Temporarily.

In “Forever Plaid,’’ Jinx, Smudge, Sparky and Frankie get the chance to come back for a day. Thanks to Heritage Theatre Festival fans, they get to come back for almost three weeks.

Once upon a time I was backpacking across Europe. When I landed in Paris I was hot, tired and thirsty.

A Ruckersville family had a little extra fun on vacation — literally.

One-man shows are risky business. Not only are you putting all of your eggs in one basket (if your one man sucks, the whole thing falls apart), but you’re automatically limiting your range too — there are lots of things any given person just cannot do alone.

One man will share his musings about how tough it is to make basic human connections amid high-tech weapons of mass distraction.

Pat Welch had one of the most memorable roles in Hollywood.

Put on your favorite costume for the Artisans Night Gala on Saturday night at Al Hamraa Restaurant.

Kluge-Ruhe hosts a lecture tonight

Get ready, theater fans: A summer favorite is back with a new name, a new parking garage and its biggest musical to date.

Shadow thin and too weak to walk, the emaciated man crawled on all fours across the hardpan earth.

They are poling.

It’s the perfect setting - mountains as a backdrop, expansive green fields, a spacious building with a wide, wraparound porch. It only started four years ago, but the Pink Ribbon Polo Cup has become an anticipated event in June.

Ride your bike along the scenic countryside and help out scores of people in the Blue Ridge who suffer from multiple sclerosis, a crippling disease of the central nervous system.

Every manner of dog — from Akitas to Yorkies — will be strutting its stuff at Foxfield’s steeplechase course on Garth Road this weekend.