Multimedia
Taubman Museum of Art
Explore time-lapse photography of the museum's construction, an in-depth look at its collection and a bird's-eye perspective of the building's exterior.
Selected video
- The Hottest Bartender
- Corned Beef & Co. bartender Buck Ellis serves patrons Saturday night in downtown Roanoke. Roanoke Times readers and roanoke.com voters chose Ellis as Roanoke's hottest bartender.
- Long lines, high prices for gasoline as Ike approaches Texas
- The threat posed by Hurricane Ike to Gulf Coast oil refineries triggered a double-digit spike in gasoline prices and long lines at fueling stations across the Roanoke Valley on Friday afternoon. At 7-Eleven on Ninth Street Southeast in Roanoke, lines of cars stretched up several nearby streets. The price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.65 by mid-afternoon -- a bargain compared to nearby stations.
- Selling Obama memorabilia
- A handful of Democrats are raising money and excitement during the political season by following Obama's tour stops and selling memorabilia along the way. Cousins Julius West and William Parmlee enjoy their new-found business, and believe they are helping by giving a majority of the profits back to the campaign.
- Moving art to the new museum
- How do you move a whole museum-full of art? Very slowly. Over the past 11 weeks, staffers and volunteers at the Taubman Museum of Art have been wrapping, boxing, crating and otherwise readying more than 2,000 artworks for the move from the museum's old quarters at Center in the Square to the new $66 million building two blocks away.
- Speeding on I-81
- You might think that with gas being up 93 cents a gallon from a year ago to $3.48 in the Roanoke Valley, motorists would have slowed down to conserve fuel, especially for long-haul trips. Not so -- and Virginia State Police Trooper Andy Cochran has you on his radar.
- Roanoke woman trains for Ironman triathlon
- Kati Derrick will compete in her second Ironman Louisville, a mega-triathlon that consists of 140.6 miles, this Sunday. Derrick is also a personal triathlon trainer and is coaching Robin Giordano to do the Ironman Louisville with her.
- Hitchhiking from Roanoke to Greensboro
- Kristen Lentz, of Conway, S.C., and John Blitch, of Hickory, N.C., hitchhiked in Roanoke.
- Obama campaigns in Martinsville
- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama began a two-day Virginia campaign swing in a community with the state's highest unemployment rate, telling a Martinsville audience that he will take aggressive steps to improve the plight of economically-distressed communities that are reeling from plant closings and layoffs.
- First day of football practice at Patrick Henry
- Benjamin Mesadieu of Patrick Henry High School practiced football on Monday, the first official day of practice in Timesland.
Other multimedia
- Carilion collections
- Roanoke resident David Crimmins speaks about his living situation and his experience with Carilion garnishing his wages to pay for medical bills.
- Time lapse of Scott Stadium
- A record 64,947 filled Scott Stadium in Charlottesville see Virginia open its 2008 college football season against the USC Trojans. USC beat Virginia 52-7.
- Breast cancer survivor delivers 'miracle baby'
- Cara Cubitt lost her breasts and hair to cancer before she was 30. The Vinton woman refused to lose her hope of motherhood.
- Young runners get stinging incentive
- The participants in a miniduathlon were urged on by some angry yellow jackets.
- Panoramic: A day at Douthat State Park
- Spend a day at Douthat State Park through a series of interactive panoramas.
Special series
- Virginia Tech multimedia coverage
- Stories, video, photo galleries, interactive graphics and PDFs of special sections dedicated to the Virginia Tech shootings.
- Henry County Sheriff's Office: Above the law?
- Henry County's sheriff, 13 deputies, and 7 civilian employees were charged with multiple crimes in a 48-count indictment.
- Homicide on the Huckleberry
- For 37 hours in August 2006, William Morva, a high school dropout who hung around Blacksburg coffee shops, was on the run.
- Running on empty: Hellgate 100K
- The Hellgate 100K is an event feared even by ultrarunners -- people who may run a marathon-length race as a regular workout. It's 17 hours of Virginia's roughest terrain, with the goal of covering at least 66 miles on foot. About 65 percent of the entrants usually manage to finish the race.
- Hokies at Home: A sensory tour of Game Day
- Experience the sights and sounds from Virginia Tech football.
- Sporting Life Photo Blog
- A photo blog celebrating the sports we play and the competitive spirit that comes with them.
- Capoeira
- In a stark, cinder block room in Salem, the smell of sweat lingers in the air. A group, mostly males in their 20s, begins a series of gravity-defying moves including flips, spins, cartwheels and handstands.It’s called capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art practiced by African slaves in Brazil centuries ago. It arrived in Salem two years ago.
- The AT: An Uncertain Path
- No longer just a footpath, The Trail has become an early warning system for sprawl, pollution, habitat loss and the ecological threats facing the eastern United States.
- Land of Opportunity
- In increasing numbers, Hispanic immigrants are putting down roots in the Roanoke Valley. They're pouring concrete, opening hair salons and filling classrooms. Some employers, meanwhile, are attributing their success to this new labor pool. In this occasional series, The Roanoke Times explores the local impact of the national debate about immigration.
- Homestand
- Get a behind-the-scenes look at four days in minor league baseball with Homestand.
- The Crooked Road
- Reporter Ralph Berrier Jr., photographer Kyle Green and videojournalist Seth Gitner take you on a musical journey along The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, from Ferrum to Clintwood with back-road stops along the way.
- Jordan's War
- Roanoke native Jordan Sherwood is a still young man, but he's already a combat veteran with two Purple Hearts. After his second war injury, he returns home to recuperate and ponder his future. As a combat photographer, he has a rare skill the Marines need. Will he be sent back to Iraq again?
- Unlikely Refuge
- This story begins all over the world, in deserts and mountains and coastal plains. It ends in a Raleigh Court apartment complex that is the most diverse 9-acre spread in Roanoke — a holy jumble of Christians and Muslims, Africans and Eastern Europeans, working-class whites and blacks.In some ways, theirs is a classic immigrant story: They arrive from far-off lands and come together in a melting pot of cultures.But when African-born refugees join the mix, the immigrant's tale takes on a new — and more complicated — twist.
