Arts & Culture

Comedian Jay Pharoah, who grew up in Chesapeake, and his family started the nonprofit 13 years ago.

The popular drive-thru attraction along the Oceanfront has closed after more than 30 years. The new holiday display takes over the nature trail at the Virginia Aquarium.

Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young started the benefit concert more than 40 years ago to raise awareness about family farms in America. Mike Campbell performed at the first concert and is returning for the Virginia Beach show.

The program's goal is to raise Portsmouth's profile as a hotspot for arts and culture.

ROŪGE: Theater Reinvented is producing the show, set among the vintage WWII aircraft at the Military Aviation Museum.

It’s the first year Shelf Bound Sound will be at the new Downtown Suffolk Library.

The annual festival invites artists and readers to share, sell and discuss zines, compact, mini-magazines that have been growing in popularity — again.

The weekend includes storytelling, lectures by scholars and honoring Cherokee leader Dragging Canoe (Tsiyu Gansini).

Nikkolas Smith, a Hampton University architecture graduate, has become a best-selling children's author and his illustrations have been used in Hollywood blockbusters and at Disney.

Even if I’m not the one to see the end result of this — whatever that could look like — it’s bigger than one person, said Lacroy Nixon.