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Elaborate comic book- and movie-themed regalia is perhaps the most-visible aspect of the Big Lick Comic Con, which is drawing thousands to the Berglund Center this weekend.
You’ve probably witnessed the sport of curling while watching the Winter Olympics on television, sometime since 1998. You might not know that it’s actually practiced right here in the star city, by the Roanoke Valley Curling Club.
The Junior League of Roanoke Valley’s holiday shopping kick-off, the Stocked Market, is set for Friday through Sunday at Berglund Center.
Legendary Team USA goaltender Jim Craig will be the guest speaker at “Milestones & Miracles” night on Oct. 20, the Berglund Center and Roa…
Singer David Coverdale is suffering what he called a persistent upper respiritory illness.
We’re not in the prediction business here at the cutNscratch desk. But when we’re right, we’re right.
Stand-up comics DeRay Davis and B. Simone are headed for Berglund Performing Arts Theatre.
If Christian pop-rock hitmakers MercyMe carry an atlas on the road, it’s likely dog-eared for Southwest Virginia. The band returns to the Roan…
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Berglund Center keeps rolling out the announcements on its Elmwood Park series, and this one features southern blues/rock jammers Gov’t Mule a…
In the minds of many video music fans, the name Whitesnake harks back to 1987 and Tawny Kitaen doing gymnastics on and around two Jaguars to t…
Berglund Center keeps rolling out the announcements on its Elmwood Park series, and this one features southern blues/rock jammers Gov’t Mule a…
Another hitmaker from the 1990s is on the schedule for Elmwood Park. Sugar Ray, who had a massive hit with “Fly,” will play the city’s annual …
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For 42 years, Fret Mill Music Co. has been a downtown mainstay. It has been a hangout as well as a music market for countless folk, and for th…
We did not expect to return to the matter of the proposed Henrietta Lacks statue, or the internet project that accompanies it, quite so soon.
The Berglund Center served as their elixir before. The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs hope it will again.
For 42 years, Fret Mill Music Co. has been a downtown mainstay. It has been a hangout as well as a music market for countless folk, and for th…
The large, do-gooder civic group is running a funny and down-low shakedown scheme to raise money and get free publicity. I've warned them that blackmail will never work again.
A nu-metal band from the ‘90s will tell you what you can do with that cookie, when it comes to Roanoke.
A top flight soul-rock singer will make her Rooster Walk debut on Memorial Day weekend.
Berglund Center disrespects public health
In reference to "Proposed Franklin County solar ordinance delayed following public feedback" (Jan. 13), NIMBYism is not new. It peaked 10 year…
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COVID-19 made Berglund Center's 50th year a bit different.