Nestled a stone’s throw from the Nelson County line, Stelling Banjo Works has been making and selling a high-end line of banjos since 1974.

Megan Lovett goes behind the scenes before a Cirque du Soleil rehearsal at the JPJ.

Jong-Uck (Max) Park became Darden’s Luckiest Student after choosing a briefcase which contained $18,750.00 Wednesday morning at the school in Charlottesville, Va.

Hillary Clinton spent about 90 minutes responding to students’ questions Monday in professor Larry J. Sabato’s American politics class at the University of Virginia, offering her views about energy policy, “good” politics and why she would be the toughest Democrat against the GOP’s John McCain.

Special Olympics at Wintergreen ski resort.

Three University of Virginia graduate students have built a robot that performs avant-garde musical compositions. “This is the first instrument in what will one day become a huge robot orchestra,” said Troy Rogers, one of the device’s designers. “It will begin to dominate the global soundscape.”

Pictures from a wintry day in Charlottesville.

Adam Rogers leads a circuit bending workshop Saturday evening as part of the Audio January series at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville. Participants reconfigured sound-making toys and keyboards to make new noises.

What exactly is it about the violins made by old-world masters such as Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri “del Gesu” that gives them such exquisite voices? To this day, most of those violins remain singularly unapproachable in terms of sound quality and are handed with reverence from master to master.

Located in the historic Green Springs District of Louisa County, the Gryffon’s Aerie farm is home to Ramona and Collins Huff, their two children and a variety of animals, including cows, pigs, sheep and chickens, to name a few.