Archive: 2015
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TAPS and Atoka: The Changing of the Guard
At the intersection of roads leading to Marshall and Warrenton, to Unison and Bluemont, and the turnpikes to Winchester and Alexandria, sits the tiny…
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Museum of Hounds & Hunting Art Sale at Salamander Resort
T he Museum of Hounds and Hunting North America, Inc. will showcase an exhibition and sale of paintings and sculpture by contemporary sporting artists,…
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Mulford Realty Expands Services in Northern Fauquier
M ulford Realty is happy to announce a new office and expanded real estate services in Northern Fauquier County. Mulford Realty has provided intelligent,…
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Middleburg Garden Club’s Annual Christmas Flower show, Greens Sale and Bazaar
This extremely popular event is back this year in a picture perfect setting of the charming village of Middleburg, Va. and is part of the Christmas in…
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Middleburg Film Festival Top Prizes & Reviews
SPOTLIGHT is the audience’s favorite film and top prize winner from the Middleburg Film Festival. From director/writer Tom McCarthy, the film follows the team…
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Middleburg Concert Series Christmas Cantata Features Contemporay Composer
O n Sunday, December 20th, at 4 PM the Middleburg Concert Series will present the final performance of its 2015 season, with a celebration of Christmas music.…
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Astronaut Mark Kelly Visits Powhatan School
It is not often that a small independent school in a rural area is given the opportunity to meet a true American hero who also represents the best of the best…
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Racing For Charity & Virginia Equine Alliance Wire-to-Wire Winner
R acing for Charity has all the earmarks of being a runaway success. On Sept. 20 at Great Meadow in The Plains, the Virginia Equine Alliance presented Virginia…
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Middleburg Town Council Report - November 2015
Tribute to Howard Allen Vice-Mayor Darlene Kirk opened the November regular meeting of the Middleburg Town Council with a tribute to Mayor Betsy Davis, the…
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Howard Allen, Treasured Middleburg Citizen, Trusted Friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Dedicated Steward of his Village
Betsy Allen Davis and Page Allen agreed, when they spoke at their father’s funeral, they simply didn’t realize when they were children that Howard Allen was an…
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Town Council in Transition
At November’s regular meeting of the Middleburg Town Council two of its members, Bundles Murdock and Kathy Jo Shea, announced that they would not be running…
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being an Undergraduate in America These Days - RED
The “Show Me” state has shown us how stupid campus political correctness has become. But Missouri University is just one among many. Yale and other hotbeds of…
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The Outpost's "Help Us, Help Others Sale"
The hope for Pam and Keith Foster when opening The Outpost in Fall of 2012 was to not only establish itself as a cool and distinctive shop, but also a store tha…
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The Human Body Shop
L et’s begin with a few specific examples from the not-too-distant past. In 2006, a team at Wake Forest University removed muscle and bladder cells from a…
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The Artist’s Perspective - November 2015
I care about my eyes. We all use them and we all, given a moment to think about what I have just said, would rank them as one of our grandest possessions, but…
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Review: Spotlight
There's been a lot of Oscar buzz for director Tom McCarthy's dramatic true story film, Spotlight, saying that we could even be looking at this year's Best Pictu…
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Review: Macbeth
William Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of the playwright's most popular tales, has been brought to the screen for a new generation by up-and-coming director Justin…
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Review: Louder than Bombs
Louder than Bombs, the first English language film directed by Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, is the type of film that makes you want to run home and hug ev…
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Review: I Saw the Light
This really has been quite the year for music biopics, hasn't it? Love & Mercy covered the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, Straight Outta Compton tackled controversia…
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Review: Harry and Snowman
Get out the old riding boots, snap on that helmet, and be prepared for the leap of a lifetime- if you can find the horse first. Harry and Snowman? More like Har…