Roanoke Doesn't Suck!!!
Roanokers Jason Turner and Brenda Nicole McGuire decided a year ago to do something about all those peeps who say “There’s nothing to do in Roanoke…” They created a Facebook Fan Page called Things That Don’t Suck in Roanoke so we can post and read about the great many things that actually do go on [...]
Mystery Reality Show Coming Thru Town
Mystery Reality Show Coming Thru Town Black Dog Salvage in Roanoke will be the setting or idea behind a new national Cable TV reality show, according to Assistant Producer Clark McCarthy-Miller. He reached out to local producers in the Roanoke, VA area this past February 2012, seeking able workers for the show’s supporting staff on the [...]
Star City Roller Girls Season Finale
Star City Roller Girls Season Finale with Monster Mash-Up Co-ed Bout 10/30/11
PROject proJECT - Roanoke, VA
PROject proJECT Lights Up Downtown Roanoke!!!
Roanoke Arts and Cultural Plan May 31, 2011
The City of Roanoke held its final public meeting on the proposed Arts and Culture Plan on Tuesday evening in the Special Events Center of the Roanoke Civic Center. Interested parties, many whom had previously attended other meetings over the course of several months since Fall 2010 when the Roanoke Arts Commission first invited various [...]
Breaking News: No End Times Until Local Colors and Other Festivities Are Over!!
Local Colors 2011: May 21, 2011 marks the last day before the latest common-era End Times begins with a big rapturous send-off scheduled for 6PM EDT. While ground zero was officially determined to be Philadelphia, PA, by Harold Camping (leader of Family Radio), he failed to mention that the real bon-voyage party was taking place [...]
Booth at Studio Roanoke
I finally had the chance to go see the critically-acclaimed Booth at Studio Roanoke this afternoon before it closed. I’m glad I went. I truly admire Studio Roanoke’s people for bringing in unique performances like this one. I can appreciate the theatre experience when it’s more than just eye-candy, no matter how much technical effort [...]
Taubman Museum Family Day 2011
Saturday March 12, 2011 The weekend was a huge one for Roanoke, with celebrations in the street kicked off by the St Patrick’s Day Parade and city-wide festivities, including Taubman Museum of Art’s Family Day event. It seems Spring 2011 is unofficially here as the weather cooperated inline with the seasonal time change to Daylight [...]
Weekly Ted Talks – Shadowbox Bringing “Real News” and Conversation to the Community
When you go Downtown, just know there’s always something cool going on. Time of day doesn’t matter, there’s always something. Cool. Today I remembered that The Shadowbox runs a weekly Ted Talks video stream in their micro cinema. The cinema (which also is the Kirk Avenue Music Hall) sits on a street with a gaining [...]

