Last week, Gov. Bob McDonnell and the Department of Transportation unveiled a series of electronic signs to help motorists find the quickest route to the Oceanfront. But I reworked these signs to provide a more accurate measure on how far visitors are from Virginia Beach fun.

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“Chernobyl Diaries” manages what seems impossible – turning one of the greatest disasters in modern history into a boring cliche. It is an achievement not to be celebrated.

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On the beach, a book must compete with the wind, kids, bikinis, and six-packs and heat of varying ilks to hold the reader's attention. We think these will do it.
"Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad," by Peter L. Bergen

Donavon Frankenreiter understands the relationship between music and surfing. They're both composed of rhythm.

Author Truman Capote called Andy Warhol "a sphinx without a riddle," but what did he know? Half a century after Warhol caused an art-world sensation with his renderings of Campbell's soup cans and a newly dead Marilyn Monroe, the meaning, merit and mentality of the quintessential Pop artist are still being debated.

The news that "Men in Black III" cost $375 million to make was not encouraging.
The trouble with this series of alien-hunter movies has been too many serious-looking monsters that get in the way of the laughs.

RALEIGH, N.C.  Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson is in critical but improving condition at a North Carolina hospital after undergoing colon surgery. Folklore Productions represents Watson and says he had the surgery Thursday night at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. A hospital spokeswoman said he remained in critical condition this morning.

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In the classical music world, it's a monster. Huge and complicated and a bear to pull off.
Mahler's 8th.
Part of it is the numbers.
During a rehearsal this week at Chrysler Hall some 280 singers clomped up a steep riser, 10 rows deep, behind a Virginia Symphony Orchestra swollen to 120 players.