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  From the WFIR News room this is your Culture Calendar – With a look at some of the local events coming up this weekend and in the near future. Sponsored by the Roanoke Cultural Endowment....

Roanoke-based author Beth Macy has just released her fifth non-fiction book, “Paper Girl – A Memoir of Home and Family,” wherein Macy discovered during trips back to her childhood ho...

  An historic motor lodge is celebrating it’s grand opening this morning. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno tells us the Colony House Motor Lodge had a soft opening in August today is the ...

Kylie Jenner has revived her edgy alter ego, King Kylie, while making her music debut on Terror Jr's new single, "Fourth Strike." The song is a follow-up to their 2014 track, "Three Strikes," which wa...

In a new Vanity Fair cover story, Charli XCX discussed her upcoming film, The Moment, which she described as a "2024 period piece" and "the realest depiction of the music industry that I've ever seen....

Megan Thee Stallion took to Instagram on Monday (October 13) to announce the return of her annual Hottieween Party, which is set to take place on Halloween night (October 31) in the Houston suburb of ...

Sabrina Carpenter took to her Instagram Stories to praise Taylor Swift as the "greatest of all time" (GOAT) after Swift's Billboard No. 1 album, The Life of a Showgirl, shattered records by selling ov...

D'Angelo, the pioneering soul and R&B artist known for his critically acclaimed albums Brown Sugar, Voodoo, and Black Messiah, died on Tuesday (October 14) at 51 after a prolonged battle with panc...

A Roanoke novelist has a new book on the shelves. Mike Allen’s second novel uses the Appalachian Trail as a backdrop for this supernatural thriller. WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno has more. ...

ROANOKE –Virginia Senator David Suetterlein and Delegate Joe McNamara responded to today’s announcement of Roanoke City government’s pursuit of a casino at the Roanoke Civic Center. ...