I just finished listening to another excellent Bob Edwards’ Veterans Day Show. The title of this year’s (2010) was “Surviving the Fallen: Military Families and the Dignified Transfer.” He chronicled the process of receiving the men and women killed overseas, from the moment they land at Dover until the family lays them to rest. There [...]
McDonnell’s proposed budget calls for the temporary closure of: Caledon Natural Area in King George County Mason Neck State Park in Fairfax County False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach Twin Lakes State Park in Prince Edward County Staunton River Battlefield Park in Halifax and Charlotte counties. Caledon encompasses 2,579 acres along the Potomac, with [...]
I work from home most of the time and found today’s comic especially funny.
While the recession has put a crimp on some activities, the Graves Mountain Festival of Music, taking place this year May 28-30, remains a bargain and a great venue to settle in and listen to some bluegrass at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains mountains. This is the 17th season, and the lineup this [...]
Wintergreen Resorts has been preparing for warm spells since November when temperatures first dipped into freezing. They’re making their own snow, pumping millions of gallons of water onto the slopes. President’s Day weekend combined with Valentine’s Day are popular winter sports holidays, and Wintergreen doesn’t want the warm weather of the past week to get [...]
Mill Mountain Theatre, once the flagship of Roanoke’s thriving arts and cultural community, is shutting its doors. The theater, which has large and apparently mounting debts, has cancelled at least the rest of this season. 10 years of debt and declining revenues, most likely attributable to the current economy, made it impossible to continue. Assuming [...]
Apple’s iPhone has shaken up the cellphone business. Its next targets are Nintendo and Sony. The iPhone and the iPod touch, which feature big screens and powerful graphics, are emerging as serious competitors to Nintendo’s DS handheld and Sony’s PlayStation Portable. Game publishers such as Sega Corp. and Id Software Inc. are devoting more resources [...]
MTV Games, creator of the hit game Rock Band, and Apple Corps, which owns the rights to The Beatles’ music catalogue, announced Thursday that they plan to create a title that will feature only music from the Fab Four. The deal marks the first time that The Beatles’ music will play on video games. Read [...]
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My top TV shows this summer: Generation Kill Burn Notice Flashpoint The Closer The Factory Weeds Secret Diary of a Call Girl Deadliest Catch Ice Road Truckers Reruns of Simon & Simon
My son’s second grade class took a field trip to Wolf Creek Indian Village in Bastian, VA Tuesday. He took most of the pictures in this set. View the Photo Set
2 out of the last 4 discs have not been in stock at the Roanoke facility. I’d be slightly less irritated if Netflix would ship from the remote facility the same day instead of waiting until the next business day. Your Account | Queue | Help Shipping update Dear Stephen,IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE [...]
The large sign outside Richmond International Raceway off Laburnum on Friday said, “Tickets Available Now!” This has been a common sight at tracks that host racing events this season, but it is alarming when it occurs at Richmond International. The track has sold out every Cup race, 32 in all, over the past 16 years. [...]
I received another e-mail from Netflix today stating that the local (Roanoke) distribution center doesn’t have a movie in stock. Your Account | Queue | Help Shipping update Dear Stephen, THE SHIELD: SEASON 5: DISC 1 was not available at your local shipping center. Instead, we will be shipping this movie from Cleveland, OH [...]
Stern Pinball Inc. is the last of its kind in the world. A range of companies once mass produced pinball machines, especially in the Chicago area, the one-time capital of the business. Now there is only Stern. And even the dinging and flipping here has slowed: Stern, which used to crank out 27,000 pinball machines [...]
Roanoke city officials announced late today that they have selected Charlottesville’s Red Light Management to develop and manage an amphitheater at the former Victory Stadium site on Reserve Avenue. A press release issued just before 6 p.m. said the city’s selection committee thought that Red Light Management’s proposal was “the most responsive to the city’s [...]
Long a familiar sight on the roads of Europe and Asia, motorized scooters are still relatively rare in the United States. While much of the world views them as a practical – and often stylish – necessity, they’ve occupied more of a niche market in the car-centric US, where scooter riders were perhaps justifiably seen [...]