Arts & Culture

The eight-figure project includes a greatly expanded veterinarian care center and outdoor playground.

Not every story can be in the top 10, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t just as good. These stories almost made the top 10 most-read WHRO news stories of 2023.

Chesapeake doctor Elizabeth Kostal is training to climb Mt. Everest in 2026. The twist? She’s aiming to be the first-ever to summit successfully with a pacemaker.

“Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm” made its American debut in early December at Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum.

A new music festival will take the weekend previously held for Pharrell Williams' Something in the Water as Williams appears to be weighing an October weekend.

Second Sunday organizers were criticized by Jewish groups and the governor after canceling the menorah lighting.

The state’s current budget allocates $250,000 toward the preservation of the cemeteries at $5 a grave, or the average actual routine maintenance, whichever is greater. Currently there are 34 cemeteries receiving state money for preservation and care.

Local artist JJJJJerome Ellis performed the piece this week with an ensemble from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra at the Elizabeth River Project’s new resilience lab.

The exhibit features photos and art from tribes like the Chickahominy, Pamunkey and Monacan.

Indian Residential Schools committed systemic abuse against indigenous tribes in the 19th and 20th centuries. But William & Mary’s colonial-era school may have been a sought-after experience for tribes, new research shows.