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Virginia Zoo’s new Eastern mountain bongo calf has captive audience
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Early Thursday morning at the Virginia Zoo, the lions, cheetahs, as well as the giraffes were trying to get a closer look at its new addition. “Last Wednesday, Oct. 13, Clover, one of our female eastern bongos, gave birth to a little baby girl,” said Emily Spence, curator of the Africa […]
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How the Perry Glass Studio's Pumpkinpalooza has become a hot fall tradition
Whether it’s marbles, jewelry or mushrooms, the Perry Glass Studio offers plenty of options to create something special in glass. But nothing fires up the masses more than Pumpkinpalooza, classes that start well before temperatures start to fall. It runs late September through early November on Thursdays and weekends and allows folks to apply crushed glass to molten glass to create a pumpkin.
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Generic Theater moves into a new home with volunteer help and finds new fans
When the musical revue “Putting it Together” opens at the Generic Theater's new location next month, it will feature an ensemble of seven. Yet the cast that put it all together — transforming a space that hosted Scottish rite ceremonies into a black box theater in a few months — numbers more than 100.
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Smoked Brisket Draws Lunch-Rush Lines To This Tiny Walk-Up Barbecue Joint In Chesapeake, Virginia
Some of the best lunches in Chesapeake are handed through a window, not served at a table. In the Deep Creek area, a small barbecue spot that looks like an ordinary house pulls in a crowd three days a week, and the brisket is the reason most people show up.
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Norfolk Botanical Garden Lights Up More Than 1.5 Million Lights Beside Brand-New Glass Conservatory
Tickets are now on sale for the Dominion Energy Garden of Lights at Norfolk Botanical Garden, with the holiday walking tour set to open November 6 and run through January 3. The show drew more than 100,000 guests last year, and organizers are already warning that many nights sold out in 2025.
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Norfolk McDonald’s offers free breakfast combo for First Responders Day
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Norfolk McDonald’s is offering a free small breakfast combo to all first responders on First Responders Day this Wednesday, Oct. 28. First responders, including EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, and police officers, who show up in uniform or with ID at their local McDonald’s can redeem the offer. The local McDonald’s owner […]
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Virginia Opera Opens 2026-2027 Season with Pagliacci
Hampton Roads, Richmond, Fairfax, VA –Virginia Opera opens its 2026–2027 season this November with Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, a gripping, fast-moving drama where the line between performance and reality disappears and a story of love and jealousy takes a devastating turn. Performances will take place November 6 and...
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Review: Sold on Virginia Stage’s brave ‘The Heart Sellers’
“The Heart Sellers” — an odd and ambiguous title for a play, yes?. So, first off the bat, please note that this is not a Virginia Stage Company two-hander about the illegal trade in human organs for transplants. It is, instead, a multilevel pun on the Hart-Celler Act,...
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Tickets on sale for Norfolk Botanical Garden of Lights
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Tickets are now on sale for a Hampton Roads holiday favorite: the award-winning Dominion Energy Garden of Lights! The walking light experience at Norfolk Botanical Gardens starts on Nov. 6, and this year will feature some new additions. On Tuesday nights, visitors can ‘meet Santa’s elves’ as the elves walk around […]
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South Huntsville Lands 43,000-Square-Foot LuLuLand Adventure Park by Summer 2027
The Shoppes at Meadowbrook — Approximate Site of Proposed LuLuLand. A 43,000-square-foot indoor adventure park is headed to South Huntsville, with LuLuLand Adventure Park set to take over the former A-1 Appliances store at The Shoppes at Meadowbrook. The project is slated to open in summer 2027, bringing zip lines, rock climbing walls, dodgeball courts and more to a stretch of South Memorial Parkway already packed with big-box retail traffic.