The Charlottesville area is home to yet another dance championship winner.

James Madison could not have had a more loving caregiver during the last years of his life as he struggled with illness and physical debilities.

There’s no need to scrounge up airfare to Australia to immerse yourself in a dreamlike realm of heroes, creatures and epic stories straight from Aboriginal traditions. Just make an easy turn off bustling U.S. 250, glide up a quiet green hillside and allow yourself some time to linger among the bark paintings and canvases in the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

It was an honor Stacy W. Norman neither expected nor sought.

Making pizza with mom and dad has class

Book lovers who’d like to learn more about Barboursville Vineyards won’t have to wait to hear it through the grapevine. A new book explores the history, mission, wines and cuisine of the Orange County winery.

Foods associated with election campaigns have varied throughout the history of our country. Some have stemmed from the market days of Colonial times. Others evolved from church festivals and from militia parades.

Peter Bergen gives Miller Center forum

The green foliage of spring was just starting to appear along the Danube River when the high-explosive incendiary bombs began to fall.

A series of taps, completely undecipherable to everyone on the planet save for two men, changed the world.

Charlottesville is one of those rare and remarkable places that seem to have a knack for attracting famous people.

Demonstrations in store at Monticello festival

I had mixed feelings about the purchase of Anheuser and Busch by the Belgian-Brazilian firm InBev SA. 

Pulitzer winner
visits Miller Center

“The Change Manifesto” is an inspiring, albeit frustrating book. A book that fairly bursts with righteous outrage, which is the best kind of outrage there is. At times, I felt that John Whitehead — its author and founder and president of the local Rutherford Institute — had taken possession of my thought processes, creating order out of my often chaotic responses to what is happening to our Constitutional form of government.

While several districts in Virginia are waiting until after Monday’s holiday to get their school buses running, students in our area already have been hard at work.

Eyes closed, toes tapped and a hand gently patted the arm of a sofa.

Back in the day, the old soapstone company in Nelson County was one of the largest private employers in the state. 

In the late 1880s businesses and a handful of private homes in Charlottesville started enjoying the benefits of electricity.

Harvest Music Festival returns to Oakencroft

Recently I have been serving barley as an accompaniment to meat or chicken instead of rice, pasta or potatoes. I use the quick cooking variety, which takes only about 10 minutes to cook unless other ingredients have been added as flavor enhancers. Frequently the longer-cooking version of barley is the basis of Beef and Barley Soup, a famous German specialty. 

Be there then for book group’s talk

A soundtrack of classical music played softly as color photographs showing images of demolished homes, upturned cars and macerated landscape appeared and faded on the large Vizio television screen.

Some heroes are defined not by brave deeds in battle, but by their actions in everyday life.

Autumn Hill’s open house has barrel tasting

Have you noticed that many of the peaches this year have rather smooth skins? Have food botanists, through breeding, eliminated that typical fuzz of the peach? 

I llness can devastate a family, emotionally and financially.

Wright nominated for another prize

Kath Weston, who lives in Charlottesville and teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia, decided to write a different kind of road book — one taken by bus. “Traveling Light — On the Road with America’s Poor” is the fruit of her five-year “Buslandia” epic, and it’s an epic in more ways than one might expect. 

The Olympians, some steadying themselves on canes and walkers, marched beneath a large American flag suspended from the dining room ceiling at Our Lady of Peace retirement community in Albemarle County.