Ballets Russes Tribute by Concert Ballet of Virginia Centennial of the founding of Ballets Russes by Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev When: Tomorrow...

Box office leaders                 1. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs $25 Total: $60.5, two weeks ...

If you go Who: U2 with Muse When: 7 tonight at Scott Stadium (Charlottesville)  Tickets: $32-$252 Info: (800) 745-3000 or

The Showtime network says “Friends” alum Matt LeBlanc is returning to TV in a new comedy. LeBlanc will star in “Episodes,“ a single-camera...

VENTURA, Calif.—An Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Pulp Fiction” has been sentenced to a year in jail for causing a fatal traffic crash...

Four choreographers new to the Richmond Ballet—two men, two women; two local—shape the foundation of its second New Works Festival. Each was...

Richard Hatch, the first “Survivor” winner, is appealing a judge’s decision to keep him in a Massachusetts prison until the end of his...

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith to host Nobel concert

A former employee of Danielle Steel who embezzled more than $400,000 from the romance novelist has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion.

NEW YORK—The New York City medical examiner’s office says DJ AM’s death was accidental. It blames a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs...

Virginia Tech has acquired a collection of sheet music, memoirs and other memorabilia related to The Carter Family, Johnny Cash and other musicians of...

NEW YORK—Hugh Jackman knows how to stop the show. He did it recently when a cell phone call interrupted a preview performance of “A Steady...

ZURICH—The Swiss Criminal Court says imprisoned director Roman Polanski has filed a motion requesting to be released. The court said in a statement...

LOS ANGELES—Conan O’Brien is back at work on the “Tonight Show” and joking about a stunt accident that gave him what he calls a...

If you’re going to crib from the holy trinity—Cher, Bette Midler and Madonna—at least do it well. Lady Gaga has that in her favor. At...

Paul Newman liked to joke about his trademark blue eyes, musing that if they turned brown his career might be in jeopardy, and he was delighted to learn...

Highly dramatic music and energy fills the halls of the Carpenter Theatre

LONDON—The real-life Lucy from the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” has died after a long fight against lupus. The...

Eva Longoria Parker says she is going back to school to learn about her Mexican roots. The 34-year-old “Desperate Housewives” actress says...

OutAbout Second Street Festival African-American culture on Second Street between Marshall and Leigh streets Saturday and next Sunday.

Henley Street Theatre Company artistic director James Ricks has crossed the Rubicon: He has bought a car. “I haven’t had a car since high school,“...

FRONT ROYAL The Skyline Drive specializes in solitude mixed with pulse-racing exhilaration. You can get that three ways as autumn colors come alive across...

Some adages are based in fact, and some truth is stranger than fiction. What else could explain the phenomenon that was Florence Foster Jenkins? The real...

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

CRIMES OF THE HEART—Director Art Trotter seeks two men and four women in their mid-20s to mid-30s. Auditions will be Saturday and next Sunday at...

A standing bear is usually just curious, not threatening. Bears prefer to keep their distance from humans. Help them by making noise. Walking with the...

NONFICTION Chicken Little kind of had it right—the sky is falling, in fireballs and chunks of rock hewn by a tumble through Earth’s atmosphere....

NONFICTION As Scott Rosenberg’s informative “Say Everything” persuasively suggests, the blogosphere now belongs with those other influential...

He was born in Wisconsin, went to college in California and practiced law and politics in Arizona, but William H. Rehnquist spent much of his life in Virginia....