Brian Cox

The Virginia Tech men's basketball team held its first official practice Monday, Sept. 23 inside Hahn Hurst Basketball Practice Center.

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A print of a famous map depicting 18th century British territories in North America sold Friday at a Sotheby’s auction in New York for more than $3,700. The 300-year-old cartographic treasure is widely known as the “Beaver Map” because of the distinctive inset depiction of a colony of Castor Canadensis busily constructing a dam near Niagara Falls. Bidding closed just...

A new attraction opened in the ByWard Market Friday that holds the promise of winter recreation regardless of weather conditions. For the first time, a synthetic ice rink welcomed skaters to a public square in the historic downtown business district.

Jim Sheridan and Zahara Moufid Acclaimed Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan will direct King of the Wind, an equestrian epic about an 18th century Arabian colt that would go on to sire the modern thoroughbred bloodline. The film will be produced by Alan Moloney and Gary Levinsohn, adapted by Sheridan from Marguerite Henry’s novel.

183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy, a sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction.

Brian Cox fantasizes about how hes going to die.

It goes without saying that The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is one that left an impressionable in-print on cinema. Many other films have tried their best to emulate its epic nature in the years since – even director Peter Jackson himself with the shaky Hobbit series – but few have captured correctly, so…