This Friday marks the beginning of musical sounds as the VSU Opera and Valdosta Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in the Whitehead Auditorium at 10 a.m. “It’s been a tradition to do a Friday youth performance. Children from schools are usually bussed-in for it,” Dr. Carol Mikkelsen, head of the voice area of the [...]

The Contemporary Writers Series, hosted by VSU’s Department of English, is an annual event presenting award-winning and well-known authors around the country. The Contemporary Writers Series will present Dr. Tony Barnstone today at the University Center Theater at 7:30 p.m. “I have written four books of poetry—12 books altogether,” Dr. Barnstone said. “I am also [...]

With the intent to help local families suffering from severe or terminal illnesses, VSU’s Accounting and Finance Honors Society, Beta Alpha Psi, is hosting a 5K run for Saturday, Jan. 28. The race was first organized in 2010 by accounting professor Dr. Leisa Marshall after former student Steven Brogdon’s father was diagnosed with stage-four colon [...]

A masked gunman fatally wounded Valdosta radio DJ Stephon “Juan Gatti” Edgerton, 40, late Friday night. The Valdosta Daily Times reported that after leaving his shift, on Friday, a man approached and shot him twice in the body and once in the head. Edgerton called 911 at 11:53 p.m. to describe the gunman as a [...]

The Valdosta School of Ballet is performing “Sleeping Beauty” Jan. 21 and 22 at the Valdosta High School Performing Arts Center. There is a scheduled performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and a matinee Sunday at 3:00 p.m. The performance is directed by Jacque Wheeler, professor in the theatre and dance department, and Brandi Cunningham Roberts, [...]

Placed neatly at 704 N. Ashley Street, across from the Dairy Queen, is a large gray building renovated into Valdosta’s newest tattoo parlor and gallery, The Brass Quill Gallery.

Thursday, the biology department will host a science seminar about “Managing fungal diseases in organically managed peanut fields.” The seminar will take place at 4 p.m. and last for at least an hour. Dr. Diane Rowland, a University of Florida professor in the Department of Agronomy, was set to be the speaker, but unfortunately fell [...]

Tonight Ancient Athens will come to life in Sawyer Theatre. VSU’s Theatre & Dance “The Oresteia” at 7:30 p.m. tonight through Nov. 12 and Nov. 14-16. Another showing will be Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. “The Oresteia” is a trilogy of Greek plays written by the playwright Aeschylus. The trilogy was originally performed in Athens [...]

The VSU Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services and the American Sign Language Club hosted the sixth “Deaf, Deaf World” Oct. 28. The event was held twice that day in the Student Union Ballroom B and C, with a great turn-out from students. Some were there for extra credit, some for personal interests but all [...]

Friday, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services at VSU will host the “Deaf, Deaf World” event in the Student Union Ballrooms B and C. Two sessions will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The object of the event is to raise awareness of the difficulty those who [...]

Hungry students and a loving heart led Blazer Gardens President, and senior sociology student, Bobbi Hancock to reach out to the campus community and start Blazer Gardens—a garden in which produce is grown organically, and the leadership teaches students how to grow their own food—an idea conceived in fall of 2010. “I was working with [...]