Chrysler Hall

Best-of lists are intensely personal. I sometimes wait months for a performance, only to be disappointed. Or I begrudgingly attend an event because I think I should, and I'm blown away. So here's what thrilled me and surprised me this year. Black...

Here is a complete Virginia Arts Festival schedule. Tickets can be purchased at www.vafest.org or by calling 671-8100. Virginia International Tattoo Sneak Peaks. Noon April 14. A pipe band from the Tattoo will perform a half-hour show. Tidewater...

The Jamestown 2007 celebration and the 11th annual Virginia Arts Festival provide plenty of artistic highs in the coming months. They add to the other colorful spring palette of performances we've got going on around here. Here are five things I'm looking...

I'm happy to report that plenty of wonderful musicians are headed our way. Remarkably, these singers or players launched their careers without help from reality television. It seems it is still possible in this modern age. You're actually hungry for a...

The Virginia Arts Festival presents Yo-Yo Ma and the "Silk Road Ensemble," in concert at Chrysler Hall, Feb. 25. "Make music, not war" was easily the idealized subtext of the eagerly anticipated appearance of celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his "Silk...

Lower Granby Street, fast becoming this city's restaurant row, has added a Japanese restaurant to the international stew. Domo Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar took over a sporting goods store that went out of business last year at Granby Street and...

Here's what our 7cities.com Review Troop was doing this weekend: Highlights: -A tea party at The Painted Lady for a friend's baby shower, where we drank rose tea and ate cucumber sandwiches and lemon bars. It's a gorgeous restaurant and tea is...