Table of contents
COVER
Unfathomable
The death of an Albemarle County mother and her three teenaged children in a murder-suicide has devastated the community, leaving local parents struggling to help their children cope with a tragedy even adults can't grasp. What happened on Stony Point Road?
FICTION
Tolly Merrick's award winning fiction
Two adolescents explore the gray area in death, guilt, and responsibility– as well as the molting woods behind David's stepdad's house.
FACETIME
Amanda Smith's Panda Cakes
A straight path to filmmaking turns sweet as a new company is born in Panda Cakes.
MOVIE
Virginians and their moonshine
Lawless shows audiences to never get between Southerners and their hooch. But Roger Ebert wonders if Nick Cave's screenplay is too violent.
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Lead image by Flickr user bru76. Other images by Dargan Coggeshall, Tom Daly, and Dave McNair.