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Annual Williamsburg art festival returns this weekend with new ideas, experiences (opens the original)
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WILLIAMSBURG — The backbone of An Occasion for the Arts’ popular annual festival, an exhibition of original works by 150-plus professional artists from across the country, hasn’t changed. The bones around that open-air gallery — call them “zones,” actually — are what will set the 2026 event apart. Come this weekend, an updated AOFTA festival will debut four new themed spaces focused on youth artists, local and regional creatives, event patrons, and visitors looking for a party with live music, f
Newport News native to appear in Tyler Perry’s Netflix film ‘Doing Life’ (opens the original)
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Jasmine Sargent was a junior in college before she performed in her first play. She was studying for a master’s degree in forensic psychology when a friend with terminal leukemia persuaded her to pursue her love of acting instead. “He told me, ‘Life is short,’” said Sargent, a Newport News native set to appear in an upcoming Netflix film directed by filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry. “When he died, it just lit a total fire under me to follow my true dreams. I felt like this is what I was meant to
Williamsburg-area teen science whiz is finalist in national competition (opens the original)
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JAMES CITY — Isabel Rossi does math problems to relax in her free time. She has read articles from her father’s Physics Today magazine since sixth grade and, at age 14, coaches a middle school mathematics competition team. And recently, the Jamestown High School freshman became one of 30 finalists in a prestigious national science competition for middle schoolers, thanks to a project she completed last year as an eighth grader at James Blair Middle School. Judges for the 2026 Thermo Fisher Scien
The way it will be: Bruce Hornsby’s latest tour to end with stop at Ferguson Center (opens the original)
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Bruce Hornsby wanted to take a break from songwriting. The Williamsburg resident had composed 50-plus songs and released four records between 2019 and 2024, but an idea kept waking him up in the middle of the night. His brain was stuck on a once-embarrassing incident at the local Indigo Park Pool when he was 16. Hornsby had just learned to drive a stick-shift ’41 Chevy and hoped to impress an older crowd with a grand entrance. All he got was a collective shrug. “I’d always flogged myself about i
Ocean Breeze Waterpark goes to the dogs for annual Pup Party (opens the original)
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Summer isn’t over for 9-year-old Kona Fritz until she hits Ocean Breeze Waterpark in September. The 65-pound Kona likes to swim in Runaway Bay, the park’s giant wave pool, and feast on countless crunchy treats. If she gets tired, she climbs into a chair and lounges. “We wrap her up in a towel and she just dog-watches,” said Kona’s mom, Erica Fritz of Virginia Beach. “Once we get home, she sleeps the rest of the day — sometimes most of the next day, too. We’ve been every year they’ve had it becau
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