Sat 19 Jan 4pm free at JMU: more trombones than you can wiggle a spitvalve at, exuberantly blatting and fronking-out jazzy tunes (see pic). In the spirit of this event, WMRA's The Spark replays a chat with trombonist Robert Mott. Brass music "takes strong lips" and skilled raspberry-blowing ability.
After a couple months last year spent running a tiny, one-person eating space housed inside a wine shop in downtown Harrisonburg, Steve Pizarro is taking the plunge into a full-time restaurant ownership. Martha talks with the jolly owner of the once-and-future Cuban Burger.
The next time you stop at the pump, how would it be if instead of paying 17.5 cents to the state of Virginia for each gallon your purchase... you pay NO state gas tax? But, you would have to pay about a penny extra in sales tax on most everything else you buy.
Highland County’s Rick Lambert is a project caver. Rick has been caving for decades and tells about some of the changes along the way --and about the joys of mucking about in the mud while wearing a hard hat.
Past NASA scientist Dave Pruett wishes it weren't so often thought of as an either/or choice when it comes to intuition and reason. He spent a dozen years trying to get his thoughts down on paper. And the book is ready.
The "right hand man" of epic football coach "Bear" Bryant was coach Carney Laslie. Leslie's granddaughter, Carey Keefe, is working on a memoir of him. The ending has an odd twist --and she reads us part of it.