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VIDEO: One man’s trash is an eco-artist’s treasure

VIDEO: One man’s trash is an eco-artist’s treasure

Alison Sigethy’s first foray into the art world came at the ripe old age of 6. Punished for talking too much, she sat alone while her fellow first-graders enjoyed recess. But being innovative and spunky, Sigethy [...]

MetroStage’s ‘Lonely Planet’ touches everybody’s world

MetroStage’s ‘Lonely Planet’ touches everybody’s world

When an entire cast consists of only two characters — such as in Steven Dietz’s play, “Lonely Planet” — be assured the piece will reveal a deep exploration of the psyche. This thoroughly engaging, Ionesco-influenced drama [...]

Alexandria’s little known ordinance puts limits on pet ownership

Alexandria’s little known ordinance puts limits on pet ownership

Alexandria is often heralded as a pet-friendly community, but does a 17-year-old law limiting ownership of cats and dogs bode well for that reputation? Since 1995 it’s been illegal for any household to have more then [...]

Hostage drama takes no prisoners

Hostage drama takes no prisoners

There’s an inner peace that washes over your soul when a drama is so powerful, exquisitely acted and heart wrenching — you just want to share the earthmoving experience with your fellow theatergoers. Luckily, in this [...]

A tidily wrapped murder mystery

A tidily wrapped murder mystery

In a whodunit filled with more red herrings than a kettle of fish, veteran Little Theatre of Alexandria director Eddie Page packages a cast of 19 actors into a tidy piece of silken stagecraft. That the [...]

Hobie & Monk: Visitation rights

Hobie & Monk: Visitation rights

Dear Hobie and Monk, What do you say when your 14-year-old daughter wants to invite boys over?  - Unsure Monk: Unless you already have a reason to say otherwise, you say, “Sure!” But then you need [...]

Pet Matters: Potty-trained cats: the feline revolution

Pet Matters: Potty-trained cats: the feline revolution

My friend the feline is oftentimes treated as a second-class citizen when up against the popular canine. Dogs play fetch, go for walks, ride in cars with their heads out the window and even go to [...]

Alexandria’s Cabinet Artisanal Brewhouse embraces the strange

Alexandria’s Cabinet Artisanal Brewhouse embraces the strange

Brewing in a strip mall on the city’s West End, Terry Hawbaker can’t ignore the inherent weirdness of crafting “rustic” beer in the shadows of towering warehouses and abandoned stores. “Our philosophy is sort of embracing [...]

Write what you know: Jay Alvarez brings his tale of Cuban immigration to Alexandria

Write what you know: Jay Alvarez brings his tale of Cuban immigration to Alexandria

Once a glamorous island destination for the famous and infamous, where socialites and celebrities frolicked in glittering nightclubs and casinos, Cuba became a communist outpost riddled with poverty in 1959. Landowners were stripped of their property, [...]

Life changer

Life changer

On the Richmond set of Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” local actor Sidney Blackmer Jr. shared a brief conversation with the famed director. “I worked with your father,” Spielberg told him. Blackmer, son of the prolific Hollywood and [...]