Hidden treasures: Stepping off Blacksburg's beaten path
August 31, 2011
As the features section’s man on the ground, my chief responsibility is keeping a finger on the pulse of Blacksburg.
Content on Shopping:
Students continue to save with deals
July 27, 2011
Times are hard and our pockets are feeling much lighter than they were a few years ago.
June 1, 2011
Daily emails are the new Sunday morning coupons for the spenders of the 21st century.
Kohl’s: Miraculous one-stop shop for every need
October 19, 2010
The choices you make during beach week stick with you for the rest of your life. I should know: My friends have kept mental, and in some cases physical, logs of my outbursts, never failing to bring them up at inappropriate times.
September 2, 2009
Things to do downtown and around the 'burg
June 21, 2009
Nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Blacksburg often appears to be little more than a sleepy college town.
Column: When it comes to paper or plastic, choose neither
April 21, 2009
This weekend I went to a baby shower for a co-worker from home. I went straight from Blacksburg and only stopped once: at Babies 'R' Us to pick up something from her registry. I ran around the store and picked out my present. Everything was going perfectl
He said, she said: Grocery shopping for life's essentials
March 26, 2009
October 24, 2008
Muscian's Tour of Blacksburg: Where to go, buy, learn
September 10, 2008
When I was young, I remember listening to Green Day's "Dookie" and coming to the hasty conclusion that I wanted to do nothing with the rest of my life but play guitar.