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Actor and producer Bob McFarland takes on dual roles and genders this month in the hometown musical “Mame,” performed by The Lake of the Woods Players.

Adult church group snorts, hoots, chortles and snickers.

Eye surgeon Dr. Binoy R. Jani will begin performing procedures at the Culpeper Surgery Center in October.

F’burg cover band will mix in some original songs too

A Fairfax-based cover band will play the Hazel River Pub for the first time this weekend.

She was an illegitimate child born in an obscure South American village.

Kubrick flick screens for free Friday on Mt. Pony

Quick, what’s America’s biggest wine region? If you answered California’s Napa Valley, you’re way, way off thanks to a federal ruling that creates a new one starting Wednesday.

Cover band’s new member adds a new perspective

The Library of Congress Packard Campus on Mount Pony will be closed this weekend in observance of Independence Day.

“The Bad and the Beautiful” plays Saturday on Mount Pony

Every play bears the indelible fingerprints of its maker, but “Design for Living” has its maker’s DNA.

Disney-Pixar’s latest animated venture, “Up,” is a great adventure and their first voyage into the 3-D world.

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Hardcore Trekkies and closet sci-fi fanatics alike will love the 2009 version of “Star Trek,” which surpassed $70 million at the box office this weekend.

A conceited young prince learns a valuable lesson in Culpeper Middle School’s adaptation of “Beauty and the Beast Jr.”

The joys of language across the U.S.

Finding the love and removing the stress from cooking

When the Blue Ridge Chorale performs its spring concert, it wants the audience to feel the warmth of a July afternoon, the soft caress of freshly mowed grass and the joy that comes with the advent of summer.

On my way home from visiting family in Georgia I stopped in North Carolina to hike up Crowder’s Mountain with none other than country music artist, Jimmy Wayne.

Were you around in Culpeper 75 years ago?

If you believe the advance publicity, you will expect “See What I Wanna See” to invoke intertwining themes of “lust, greed, murder, faith, and redemption.”

He may look like a young Kurt Cobain of Nirvana fame with his long blond locks hovering over his shoulders, but instead of grungy heavy metal, Eli Cook surprisingly belts out angsty blues vocals.

The Library of Congress Mount Pony Theater continues its diverse programming of free films this weekend with a nod to Dickens and Disney.

Blues Farm plays at the Pub on Saturday

The Charlottesville foursome — Fritz Berry, J.D. D’Errico, Larry Sappington and Neil Tibert — will take the stage around 9 p.m.

If you’re on a budget but you’d like to fly somewhere for your next vacation, there’s good news.

The Library of Congress Mount Pony Theater re-launches its free movie programming Friday at 7:30 p.m. with “A Hard Day’s Night” (United Artists, 1964).

“No Line on the Horizon” upholds love, love, love as the cure for all that ills the world. U2’s 12th studio album is young and fresh in that regard, and yet it’s grownup, peppered throughout with words of wisdom and an unceasing search for peace and meaning in life.