So you’re still making St. Patrick’s Day plans, and you haven’t gotten much further than making sure your favorite green garments won’t all be in the laundry hamper by Monday.

These days there are two sides to Jason Ringenberg. Sometimes the Nashville-based singer-songwriter is still an alt-country cowboy punk that continues to mess with the Americana formula. Then there’s his alter ego Farmer Jason, who enjoys entertaining youngsters with an original brand of quirky country kid’s music.

“So, You Think You Can Dance, Charlottesville-’’ will bring an evening of dances from around the world to the Paramount Theater at 7:30 tonight.  Albemarle County Schools Adult Education’s ESOL Partners in Leadership is presenting the event, and all proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.

The recent “60 Minutes” television segment on the shortage of bees to pollinate all types of fruit and vegetable plants got me to thinking about honey. It seems that the bees are dying by the thousands from what is believed to be modern pesticides. This is causing the cost of renting bees for pollination to double in price.

Get out your lucky shamrock and put on something green. This weekend, the Wayne Theatre Alliance will give area kids and their families the chance to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day a few days early.

Families in the Shenandoah Valley were aware by 1926 that a national park and a parkway would be developed on the mountains along the ridges.

5:15 p.m. Van Halen today sent out notice that 17 concert dates, including Charlottesville, have been postponed. 

“I started smoking the bees, and all of a sudden I realized that we were basically looking at empty boxes,” Hackenberg said recently via telephone from Florida. “They were full of honey, but there weren’t any beetles or wax moths, which are two predators that start moving into a bee hive long before it’s even dead.

Where are the best theology lessons taught today- Well, in church, of course, during regular worship or evening classes, and in seminaries or Bible colleges. But what about that one place where you spend far more time-

The wait is getting shorter for Van Halen fans: The legendary rock band’s rescheduled show will be 8 p.m. Tuesday at Charlottesville’s John Paul Jones Arena.  The tour date, originally planned for Feb. 22, will feature guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, original vocalist David Lee Roth and bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, who is Eddie Van Halen’s son.  Tuesday’s show is the first date in a resumed tour schedule that brings Roth and Van Halen back together for the first time in more than 20 years.

Gimme that old-time, hick-hop, country-rap, Southern-rock religion. If it’s good enough for legions of Kid Rock’s fans, it ought to be good enough for me.  Kid Rock will be bringing his “Rock and Roll Revival Tour’’ and new tunes from “Rock ‘N Roll Jesus’’ CD to the John Paul Jones Arena at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Watching the Harlem Globetrotters stirs up all sorts of aspirations to mimic the basketball stars’ graceful moves. Certainly that ball could roll from one of my arms to the other, right- Can’t I bounce it off my knee and score a couple of clean points in the garbage can-

So is Leahy a Celtic group- Or is it country, or pop- Could it be classical- The short answer is “yes.’’ The group of eight siblings from Ontario, Canada, grew up surrounded by musical possibilities.  Their fiddler father and step-dancing champion mother were seasoned performers who encouraged the youngsters to listen to the good stuff, regardless of genre.

Sometimes, following your heart requires taking a chance. For University of Virginia alumna Katie Couric, it meant leaving the stability of being an audience favorite on “Today’’ for the challenge of anchoring “CBS Evening News.”

Dorothy isn’t in Kansas anymore - and the Land of Oz might be a little different than you remember. 

Have you noticed that the price of milk recently increased by as much as 30 cents per half-gallon- Made me wonder whether the cows, like everyone else, are demanding more money. I am told, though, that the price increases in milk are due to higher transportation costs.

Ancestors of Monacan, Saponi, and Tutelo tribes ascended the Allegheny ten thousand years ago and hunted game in the valley and mountains through the 1600s. John Lederer, a German, departed Jamestown and explored the Blue Ridge in March 1669, entering the Shenandoah across Fishers’ or Milams’ Gap.

Daily Progress photographer Megan Lovett went behind the scenes before a Cirque du Soleil rehearsal at the JPJ.

John Huffer knows that history isn’t always flattering. But without it, he says, we can’t really know who we are.

The severely burned boy was fighting to live, but it was clear he would need more help than the hospital in Grundy could provide.  The attending physician placed an urgent call to Dr. Richard F. Edlich, director of the burn center at the University of Virginia Medical Center. When Edlich heard the request to transfer the patient to his facility, he assessed the situation.

It’s smaller, and the salmon pink color is gone. But the house once loved by our fourth president and his popular wife retains a regal look with its handsome brick and Colonial-era facade, even in the midst of red clay and scaffolding. Perched at the top of a gently sloping, expansive field Montpelier bask in a peacefulness that harkens back to an earlier time.

For decades it was simply known as “the plant” to the folks living in the Piney River community.  The behemoth industrial complex in Nelson County was built in 1930 by the Vanadium Co. An ore deposit had been discovered nearby, and the plan was to produce pig iron.

Many of us would like to be heroes - to do the right thing and to help others.  The American Red Cross is offering us all this opportunity. March is American Red Cross Month and, to honor it, the Red Cross is asking for 90 heroes to step up in our community.

The word “classic” is not one to be taken lightly. It carries with it a weighty mix of substance and longevity. Last year, the book of choice for the Big Read in Virginia was F. Scott Fitgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” and this year’s selection is “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Those responsible for making such literary decisions deserve our praise and gratitude.

Can your dog or hamster teach theology- Does your cat or canary represent God- Considering what the Bible says about animals as God’s teachers and representatives, we might want to give our four-legged and feathered friends some serious consideration before their suppertime tonight. They may be overdue for appreciation.