Concord News

A Concord man is in critical condition after a Sunday night motorcycle crash in Lynchburg.

The fine old Southern art of storytelling is being stunningly demonstrated at N.C. Stage Company with Peter Neofotis dramatically reciting two tales from his new book 'Concord, Virginia.' 'Reciting' is far too antiseptic and clinical a description of the high drama portrayed by this young actor-writer, who gives us segments of his fictional ...

The fine old Southern art of storytelling is being stunningly demonstrated at N.C. Stage Company with Peter Neofotis dramatically reciting two tales from his new book 'Concord, Virginia.' 'Reciting' is far too antiseptic and clinical a description of the high drama portrayed by this young actor-writer, who gives us segments of his fictional ...

A lane closure that is causing backups on a busy Lynchburg thoroughfare could stay in place for several weeks.

Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter" is well-acted, and writer-performer Peter Neofotis is "eerily magnificent." Last update: August 3, 2009 - 1:00 PM Harold Pinter's "The Dumb Waiter" Keeping crucial info from view is a Pinter hallmark, and here the famed playwright employs a dumb waiter at a seedy hotel to animate and mystify a tense, terse little tale ...

There will be a Gospel Concert featuring Smokey Wilson from Concord, Va. on August 2, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at the Buena Vista Baptist Church.

The subtitle of this small collection is "A Southern Town in Eleven Stories." In these 11 short pieces set in a town in a little valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge, Neofotis uses recurring characters and locations to gradually bring into focus the likeness of this small place.

They say: "Neofotis performs stories from his prize-winning book, newly published by St.

The two-day trial of a Concord man accused of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a Lynchburg woman ended Wednesday with a hung jury.

A bee may have been partially to blame in a wreck that caused a landscaping truck to spill its load of wood on U.S. 460 Tuesday morning, state police said.

Welcome to Concord, Virginia. Tucked into the rolling hills of rural Virginia, "in the places set between folds in the Earth, voices echo against mountains..." Through 11 short stories, author Peter Neofotis carefully weaves together a fictional patchwork of voices, characters and history of a close-knit bygone Southern town torn between tradition ...

Diana Krall pumps out her 12th studio album; Holly Williams makes Hank very proud, Elvis Costello shows us he' still got it!; Polly Scattergood the new Tori Amos??; Among the Oak and Ash make folk relevant again... More>> BOOKS By Christopher Sandlin Through 11 short stories, debut author Peter Neofotis carefully weaves together a fictional ...

For the last three years, Peter Neofotis has been performing his short stories in various venues around New York City - all of them set in a fictional community which gives his debut collection its title: Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories .

Twenty-eight-year-old author, Peter Neofotis developed the tales of his short story collection, "Concord, Virginia" by night, while working by day at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NY, where he was a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Many Rockbridge area performers consider Theater at Lime Kiln their home. On Saturday, June 27th and Sunday, June 28th, Lime Kiln hosts two events featuring artists who can make that claim.

An application to spread biosolids on a total of 3,587 acres scattered over more than 160 sites in Campbell County was opened up to public comment Thursday night.

Concord, VA - The Swat Valley region of Pakistan is in chaos. Millions of refugees are swarming camps- short on food, water, and medical supplies- after fleeing areas now claimed by the Taliban.

Demolition crews are tearing down two Fifth Street buildings, a move designed to attract new development but opposed by corridor advocates.

Theater at Lime today released information about its 2009 season, stocked full of music, Shakespeare, juggling and STONEWALL COUNTRY! Executive Director Kim Renz says this should be a really successful year for the 26-year-old arts presenting organization.

A long-haired man walked into Doug Pickeral's downtown barbershop about 30 years ago and asked for "a G.I. haircut." The way Pickeral tells the story, he was halfway done with the haircut when the man spoke again: "Doug, I just killed a man." "You didn't kill nobody!" Pickeral said in disbelief.