You’ll know what to expect from “Motherhood” even before the opening credits.  A camera pans over a topsy-turvy apartment, two sleeping...

ALLEY KATZ—10 Walnut Alley, 643-2816. White Knuckle Battery, Throtl and others, 10 p.m. Saturday, $7. This Time It’s War, Periphery, This or...

Science Museum IMAX “Sharks”: 11 a.m., 4 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday. $8.50.  “Journey Into...

Look for these new DVD releases, now on store shelves. “Aliens in the Attic”: An extended family gathers in a big Victorian rental home in...

Richard Shindell with Antje Duvekot, 8 p.m. at Ashland Coffee & Tea One Love Reggae Festival featuring Capleton, Anthony B and Cocoa T, 8 p.m. at...

At the turn of the 20th century, French women of style were gilded peacocks festooned with jewels, gaudy things cinched so tightly at the waist that they...

totally authentic and outpaces earlier versions     Technology finally has caught up with Charles Dickens’ imagination.  Jim Carrey...

Box office leaders         1. Michael Jackson’s This Is It $23.2 Total: $34.4, one week (opened Oct. 28)  Locations:...

You might know that Paul Shaffer wrote “It’s Raining Men.“  You might even know that he performed in the first house band for “Saturday...

The choreographer Jessica Lang sees movement where most wouldn’t bother to look.  For the past decade, she has transformed those spurts of creativity...

If you go What: “Avenue Q: The Broadway Musical”  When: 8 p.m. tomorrow; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday at Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage...

Pop star Rihanna says dealing with the media attention after being assaulted in February by singer and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was humiliating. But she...

Chris Brown and Rihanna are seemingly testing fans’ loyalty with dueling specials airing Friday night.

LOS ANGELES—Rihanna says dealing with the media attention after being assaulted in February by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was humiliating. But she...

TOKYO—Brad Pitt says he is in the market for a new motorcycle. The actor, in Tokyo to promote his latest movie, “Inglourious Basterds,“...

The 10th Annual Brunswick Stew Festival will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in Richmond. More than a...

British pop singer Leona Lewis won strong fan support at her first ever full-length concert Monday night, performing on familiar territory in the east...

Tonight’s Styx/REO Speedwagon concert at the Richmond Coliseum has been canceled. Refunds are available at point of purchase. For details, visit...

Jay Leno is perched in prime time, but he still says he would have rather stayed put at “The Tonight Show”—and if NBC offered him that...

Tomorrow’s Styx and REO Speedwagon concert at the Richmond Coliseum has been canceled.

LONDON—Elton John’s spokesman says the singer has been hospitalized after suffering from a case of E. coli bacterial infection and the flu....

LOS ANGELES—“Michael Jackson’s This Is It” is the No. 1 Halloween thriller for movie audiences. “This Is It” led the...

People gathered on the banks of the James River in Charles City County to commemorate America’s first Thanksgiving, in honor of the safe landing...

Rachael Ray plans to serve an early Thanksgiving dinner to an Ohio community slammed by job losses. The talk-show host and cookbook author is offering...

For students of 20th-century history, the title of this book is shorthand for tragedy and disaster. It outlines the self-deceptive, smug and misguided...

It’s the long Labor Day weekend in Holton Mills, N.H., in the mid-1980s, and 13-year-old Henry and his mother, Adele, have nothing special planned....

TODAY “The Naked Portfolio Manager” by Robert Fischer—Book signing, 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble-Short Pump, 11640 W. Broad St. 360-0103....

Ongoing productions on area stages Barksdale Theatre-Hanover Tavern, 13181 Hanover Courthouse Road, Hanover, 282-2620. “Souvenir,“ $10-$38....