Cracks snake their way along the sidewalk in the 200 block of North Sycamore Street, posing a hazard for passers-by and forming an eyesore for shop owners. ...

7 a.m. ABC Good Morning America KSM; William Cope Moyers; Tory Johnson.   7 a.m. CBS The Early Show Dave Price; chef Ming Tsai; yogurt labels; Amanda...

The 40-date Shine All Night Tour starring Martina McBride and Trace Adkinskicks off next month and a date is etched in for March 12 at the Richmond Coliseum....

See you later Leaving in first run tomorrow are “The Hangover,“ “Harry Potter,“ “Lorna’s Silence,“ “My...

LOS ANGELES—A judge has ruled that Mel Gibson’s conviction stemming from his notorious 2006 drunken driving arrest is being expunged. The ruling...

LOS ANGELES—It’s not two left feet, but two fractured feet forcing Tom DeLay to hang up his dancing shoes. The former House Republican Whip...

At noon today, Richmond’s arts community will officially have a new champion. The people behind the scenes have been building up to the moment for...

Kate Gosselin says her estranged husband has withdrawn $230,000 from their joint bank account, leaving just $1,000 behind, and she can’t pay her...

CultureWorks is a new area arts advocacy group. John Bryan is the president, the same role he held for the group’s predecessor, the Arts Council...

David Letterman acknowledges in his on-air apologies to his wife and staff for having sex with co-workers that he has his work cut out for him.

Abanjo and a double bass walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of bad joke?“ Indeed, the two instruments are an unlikely...

The cast and crew of the TV series “Crash” have done a good deed for some of Albuquerque, N.M.‘s homeless. The series, which airs on...

Theatre IV’s production of the children’s classic, “The Ugly Duckling,“ is bright and child friendly, but the story sure has changed...

Richmond Triangle Players may still be wandering in the desert as they wait for their new theater to be completed, but they’re right in home territory...

Richmond Shakespeare has inaugurated its long-awaited residency at CenterStage with a sparkling production of “Much Ado About Nothing.“ The...

Actor James Franco will guest-star on ABC’s “General Hospital” for a lengthy story arc this fall. The “Pineapple Express”...

Uncertainty has loomed large and ugly in many people’s lives this year—struggling economy, job losses, feeble housing market—so take...

His “The Confessions of Nat Turner” stayed on the best-seller lists for weeks in 1967 and eventually earned him a Pulitzer Prize. More than...

La Gran Banda: A traditional “papayera” band, a staple along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, can accumulate up to 20 members. This Miami-based...

Any fan—or, for that matter, nonfan—of Kathy Griffin knows one thing: She never shuts up. If you fall in the nonfan category, that unfiltered...

TODAY “Haunted Richmond” and “Haunted Virginia” by Pamela K. Kinney—Book signing 3-5 p.m. at Chop Suey Books, 2913 W. Cary...

In a 2003 piece for The New York Times, Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt questioned the merit of the Harry Potter series. Her basic argument: Young-adult...

The Jerry Douglas Band: His face is probably familiar because of his frequent presence onstage with Alison Krauss & Union Station. His sound might...

THE GRAPES OF WRATH—Auditions will be held tomorrow from 6 to 10 p.m. at Barksdale Theatre’s Willow Lawn location, 1601 Willow Lawn Drive....

BP, the international oil company, made news in early September with an announcement that it had discovered a “giant” oil field deep below...

Doreen Rappaport’s “Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln” has been selected by the public as the winner of the third...

Debashish Bhattacharya: A student of the lap steel guitar since he was 3, Bhattacharya also learned to sing before he could talk. At age 20, the native...

Andrea G. Stillman will never forget the day in 1972 she first beheld America’s most celebrated landscape photographer. “The door opened, and...

Judging by the unending flow of books, movies and television series, World War II is still being fought. But, as Dan Fesperman shows in his absorbing new...

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