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Coldplay rules the 2025 year-end Billboard Boxscore charts with their record-setting Music of the Spheres World Tour, which grossed $464.9 million between October 2024 and September 2025. This marks t...

During an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday (December 9), Christina Aguilera revealed that she is planning to release a deeply personal new album alongside a career-spanning documentar...

Billie Eilish and Oscar-winning director James Cameron are teaming up to reinvent concert films with Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D), which is set to debut in theaters on March 20. The 3-m...

On Wednesday (December 10), event organizers revealed that Diana Ross will help ring in 2026 by headlining "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest." The 81-year-old Supremes legend and...

Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl has topped the 2025 year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart, marking her fifth time leading the final roundup and making her the only artist to achieve this feat more...

Two years in the making – the brick and mortar home for The Blood Connection donation center at Valley View has finally cut a ribbon. The Blood Connection had been using a mobile blood and ...

A Downtown Roanoke Attraction is turning 42 and getting a little work down to keep it fresh.  WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno has more on what’s happening at Center in the Square. https:...

The curtain goes up this weekend on another holiday tradition. The Southwest Virginia Ballet's presentation of the Nutcracker is at the Berglund Center. WFIR's Denise Allen Membreno has more. https://...

Alice Kassens Roanoke College photo Consumer Sentiment is much higher in Virginia than it is in the nation as a whole – and that might be good news for local businesses that often count on the T...

Culture Calendar graphic From the WFIR News room this is your Culture Calendar – With a look at some of the local events coming up this weekend and in the near future. Sponsored by the Roanoke C...