Bobby Ellerbee has one of the best collections of studio cameras in the country. Like RCA’s first color camera—and would you believe it once belonged to Red Skelton?

A popular music store where local bands sell their music and advertise shows is closing Saturday. The store’s owner in Richmond didn’t want to renew the lease at Candlers Station shopping center for another year.

Before he was a county sheriff or a state senator, Ed Robb was an undercover agent for the FBI, infiltrating the Mafia and bringing down drug lords

I have connected the dots and uncovered what is undoubtedly an organized global bovine conspiracy against the human race.

Hill City Homebrewers which is affiliated with the American Homebrewers Association, meets once a month to sample each other’s brews, trade tips and diagnose problems with beers gone bad.

This year’s Super Bowl, airing Feb. 1 on NBC, is setting a record at $3 million per 30 seconds of commercial time.

Two-hundred years ago Monday, Edgar Allan Poe was born to the nightmare-inducing delight of readers everywhere.

Tourist officials in Australia are advertising in 18 countries for a tropical island caretaker who will earn $150,000 for six months feeding fish, watching whales, cleaning a pool, greeting tourists and occasionally picking up the mail.

The Obama/Spider-Man comic, which is being released today, includes the president-elect in a short backup story. Peter Parker (Spidey’s alter-ego) is attending the presidential inauguration when he spots a duplicate Obama. Realizing one of them is a supervillain in disguise, he leaps into action.

Big halftime performers at the Super Bowl through the years, from Gloria Estefan to Tom Petty.

According to a story in The Washington Post, an airline and two officials with the Transportation Security Administration recently paid $240,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit alleging they barred an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen from a 2006 flight until he covered his T-shirt, which bore a phrase in both English and Arabic.

It’s not every day you could see 31 paintings by Queena Stovall, Virginia’s Grandma Moses

To recap last week’s preview of the first six months of 2009: President Barack Obama takes the oath of office to the delight of millions, but approval ratings plummet when he fails to fix everything in the first two hours of his administration. Flush with bailout money, Chrysler introduces the sporty Dodge Desperate, which runs on actual cash stuffed directly into the gas tank, according to new Chrysler CEO and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Newspaper readership and ad revenues rise when Americans realize that much information on the Internet isn’t true. Americans abruptly return to the Internet when they realize newspapers have far fewer pictures of naked people than the Internet.

What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2009? Whether it’s a traditional goal or a little off the wall, we want to hear from you!

Once again, as media outlets take a “special look back” at events that shaped the previous year - really an opportunity for journalists to write a bucket-load of year-in-review stories in advance and spend a week or two polishing their resumes and looking for a more inviting career path, like bomb-disposal technician - I instead choose to use my super powers to predict what lies ahead in 2009.

With so many distractions, you probably didn’t hear that using Facebook makes you a better employee, or that drinking wine can help you avoid lung cancer, or that doing tai chi makes life easier for asthmatics.

“We want to make the house exactly like it was when she was there,“ said Judy Sue Kempf, the president of Celebrating Patsy Cline Inc., a nonprofit group that owns the modest house at 608 S. Kent St. “That’s where her career was formed.“

I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said, “Scott, what were the top monkey-related stories of the year?“ I wouldn’t have any money, but I would have the beginning to a column on the top monkey-related stories of 2008, as compiled by me, Media General’s senior simian correspondent, and the Monkey Action News Team, those like-minded readers who send in monkey reports from around the globe.

Red Bull, the industrial-strength caffeinator that is a staple among college students, now has a yet-to-be-published book charting its iconic rise - thanks to engineering students at the University of Virginia.

From music games to action packed worlds, video games are once again the hottest thing this holiday for kids and parents alike. And while parents have traditionally been alienated from the fastest growing medium in entertainment, there are increasingly more games being made for an unfamiliar generation.

The Roanoke Childrens Choir prepares for their holiday concert at the Jefferson Center.

I was where I did not want to be: standing in a big discount store late on a Sunday afternoon smack dab in the middle of shopping season waiting on customer assistance that would never come. It started with a promise that was, at the very least, of debatable origin. “Daddy, can we get a Christmas tree this weekend?“

Singers Chris Brown and Rhianna attended the Gretna High School football game on Saturday to cheer on Essex High School.

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According to insufferably cute videos sent to me by several members of the Monkey Action News Team, readers who scour the planet via the Internet for monkey-related news they know I will enjoy and perhaps turn into a quickly written holiday-season column, Anjana the chimp has adopted two white Bengal tiger cubs at Florida’s Jungle Island, playfully roughhousing with them, comforting them when they cry and even bottle feeding them at supper time.

He’ll play the Salem Civic Center on Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Our interactive map makes it easy to trace your path and check cameras along the way.

The concert will be February 17, 2009.  Tickets go on sale December 5th, 2008

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here’s what’s going on ‘round town.

As much as I admire President-Elect Barack Obama, I’m reconsidering my offer to serve in his administration. It’s not because of ideological differences, it’s because I wasn’t aware of the written exam.