Category: Features

With trends like chokers, bobbed haircuts and full denim ensembles on the rise, the 1990s may very well be making a comeback. Well, so are the 1970s.  And the 1950s. And the 1920s. “Fashion Unfolded: A Glimpse into the High-Class Fashion of the Decades” is the theme of Family and Consumer Science’s 12th Annual Fashion Show April 6, and designers […]

The White Hart Café, a favorite downtown Lynchburg study destination for students, recently celebrated one year under new ownership. Daniel Coco and his wife took the responsibility of owning a coffee shop and café knowing full well how hard it could be. “I’m not just some investor that is trying to turn this place for a profit,” Coco said. “This […]

Students sipped hot coffee and munched on doughnuts while enjoying the festivities at Valentine’s Karaoke Feb. 15, hosted by Student Activities.   Throughout the evening, there was a variety of song selections performed by the students, everything from Plain White T’s, “Hey there Delilah,” to “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” from Grease the musical.  Sarah Matherly, a sophomore in Liberty’s Education program, […]

Italy, France and San Francisco.  Daughters and Sons founder and owner Jason Arbusto pulls elements from these cities and his own culinary adventures to bring his Sicilian pizza to 5th Street.  When asked why he wanted to live in Lynchburg, according to Arbusto, he was “looking for a small city in the south to settle in. Somewhere more like where […]

Over 200 students packed the LaHaye Event Space to witness the first student concert of the semester. Three student bands: Rhineland, Oceanic and ANX treated those in attendance to a high-energy show that had fans cheering from beginning to end.  Prior to the first performance, both Rhineland and Oceanic were brought out onto the stage for a quick introduction. Both […]

You can almost always expect some kind of homey smell to overtake your senses well before your foot crosses the threshold of Liberty University’s Commuter Lounge. But the lounge isn’t just for commuters, it is for graduate students as well.  Gretchen Cline, associate director for Graduate Student Life, moved quickly and swiftly. Bright eyed and full of charisma she did […]

Scenes of suicide. Car crashes.  Infant deaths. Violence. Poverty. Jonathan E. Hickory saw it all from the bottom of a beer bottle.  Every time he remembered walking into a crime scene, he took another sip. Having been a police officer for 15 years, he thought he was used to seeing the grief and pain. However, with every new gruesome report, […]

Foraged & Cut is a local business owned and operated by Natasha Coan.  According to the Foraged & Cut website, Coan fell in love with floral designing after designing her own flower arrangements for her wedding. Coan then worked for a flower farm before opening Foraged & Cut.  Coan is passionate about supporting American flower farmers and works hard to […]

LU Serve launched the Lynchburg 101 Series to bring students expert insight into the controversial topics of the day. The first series of 2019 held of Feb. 6 discussed the topic of mental health with a panel of speakers from the School of Psychology along with representatives from Lynchburg’s Horizon Behavioral Health, located in Lynchburg. Debra Jefferson, Horizon’s Crisis Intervention […]

When curator of the Jerry Falwell Library Biblical Museum Dr. Randall Price is not teaching Liberty students about archeology, he is in Israel digging up pieces of history. In the past few years, Price has been instrumental in the recovery of many important artifacts from Qumran, the same series of caves where the Dead Sea scrolls were found in Israel. […]

The International Student Center hosted its first ever Lunar New Year celebration, ringing in the year of the pig with traditional Asian foods and trivia games.  As students gathered in the ISC Feb. 5, the sound of music and the smell of dumplings and spring rolls filled the room. Flags of different countries lined the tables as decorations, along with […]

 Will Rogers performed at the Lynchburg Academy Theatre in the 1920s. He swings back onto that newly renovated downtown stage Feb. 1-10 in Alluvion Stage Company’s production of “The Will Rogers Follies.”  Liberty University Theatre Arts Department Chair Linda Nell Cooper directed the show. She credited Rogers for popularizing styles of entertainment like stand-up comedy and solo acts.  “He’s a […]