Dancing draws a crowd. Executives at ABC were so confident in that fact that they staged “Dancing with the Stars” toe-to-toe with Fox’s power “House” and NBC’s new drama “Trauma.”

Devoted fans have many reasons for loving U2

Devoted fans have many reasons for loving U2

The Decemberists will perform new album in its entirety during Pavilion show

The Southern’s first three shows will be at Fry’s Spring Beach Club.

Badfish cancels tonight’s show at IS Venue; refunds are available.

Not since Live Arts packed up its costumes and paraded to its new home on Water Street has a local group been so excited about its move.

Alex Mejias passed the bar in New York after getting his law degree at the University of Virginia. Andrew Briggs was a schoolteacher.

The show features infrared B/W photography of local landscapes from veteran Daily Progress photojournalist Andrew Shurtleff.

Tickets will go on sale Jan. 17 for a pair of concerts by Charlottesville’s Dave Matthews Band.

Alexander G. “Sandy” Gilliam, secretary to the Board of Visitors, will be master of ceremonies and will read a poem the students have written.

For the second consecutive year, comedian Dan Whitney has been named to the Forbes Celebrity 100, which lists the most successful people in the entertainment industry.

The University of Virginia Cavalier Marching Band and UVa Wind Ensemble will team up for “Holiday with the Hoos,“ an evening of music starting 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 at John Paul Jones Arena.

JPJ still feels good to returning Rascal Flatts

The Harlem Globetrotters will be back in town, bringing their 2009 World Tour to Charlottesville’s John Paul Jones Arena at 7 p.m. March 11.

Neil Diamond’s Web site lists a Dec. 8 date in Charlottesville.

The top competitors from NBC’s popular “Last Comic Standing’’ competition will be coming to the Paramount Theater in the Last Comic Standing Live Tour at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Drive-By Truckers

O.A.R. brings hits to Charlottesville Pavilion

Question-and-answer time with Blue Dogs’ lead singer Bobby Houck

Comedian Ron White will bring his cigar-smoking, Scotch-swilling humor to Charlottesville.

“Works,“ the grand finale of the Look3 Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph, will begin 8 p.m. Saturday at the Charlottesville Pavilion with the music of Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun.

The last words Mary Magnan spoke were to her husband.
  “Oh, John, I don’t want to go,” the 59-year-old woman said before passing away on Feb. 13, 2006. Ovarian cancer took her life, but her voice continues to inform and inspire others in “Body Image\Body Essence,” an exhibit on display at Sage Moon Gallery on the Downtown Mall.

Second Street will honor writers
Second Street Gallery will hold its annual awards ceremony to announce the winners of the 2008 Young Writers Competition at 2 p.m. Sunday.