
2019 ACC Tournament News and Notes
The city of Charlotte welcomes the New York Life ACC Tournament for the 13th time and for the first time since 2008 as the 66th annual event gets underway Tuesday at Spectrum Center.

The city of Charlotte welcomes the New York Life ACC Tournament for the 13th time and for the first time since 2008 as the 66th annual event gets underway Tuesday at Spectrum Center.

There is a fascinating chapter toward the end of Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America titled “What Kind of Despotism Do Democratic Nations Have to Fear?”

New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book talk and signing with Claire Millikin and Blake Calhoun on Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m.

Virginia Humanities announces $79,700 in recent grants to 15 nonprofit organizations in support of public humanities programs for audiences throughout the Commonwealth and beyond.

Crystal and I launched Augusta Free Press in 2002, but actually, phrasing it that way makes it sound more planned than it was, which was, not really at all.

The Virginia Festival of the Book—a program of Virginia Humanities celebrating its 25th year of bringing writers and readers together to promote and celebrate books, reading, literacy, and literary culture—announced four new headlining programs.

Even though the state exists under the moniker of Virginia’s Wine Country, local distilleries of other types of spirits are on the rise. The most popular drink of 2018, in Virginia, was a Jalapeño Margarita, according to a new study by Hangover Heaven IV Hydration.

Ring of Honor has confirmed that new signees PCO, Brody King, Bandido and Mark Haskins will be appearing at all of the company’s upcoming U.S. events.

New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville will host a book launch party celebrating the release of Adam Nemett’s debut novel, We Can Save Us All, on Thursday, Nov. 15.

Gov. Ralph Northam today awarded $6 million in School Security Equipment Grants to protect students and teachers in 102 school divisions and the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
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