[Sabbath-Night-in-the-Church] No family is perfect – just look at the Penrose family presented in the play, “Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha.” Performed by Taking Flight Theatre at NOVA’s Loudoun campus from Oct. 8 through 23, the play allowed the audience a glimpse into the dysfunction and wounds that family can inflict upon each other.

Faced with a career in either football or music, Bear Rinehart, lead singer of NEEDTOBREATHE chose the latter and still hasn’t looked back. NEEDTOBREATHE will bring their intimate folk sound to the 9:30 club on Nov. 4 in support of their most recent album, “The Outsiders.”
“You have to have that thing in your life…  you just couldn’t live without it,” Rinehart said in an interview with NOVA Fortnightly. “I just wasn’t that way about sports, and I am that way about music.”
The band, which has known each other for over …

Don’t put away the costumes yet because there is one more event that will happen soon after Halloween. Anime USA 2010 will begin from Nov. 12 to 14 at the Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington.

Listening to Joshua Radin’s third album, “The Rock and The Tide,” is much like watching a friend get a makeover. Their new, chic look is a step in the right direction, but every now and then you miss their old, comfortable style.

Center Grady Little readies a shot versus GMU.

Early in the morning of Sunday, Oct. 10 at the Ashburn Ice House, NOVA ice hockey’s defenseman Colin Milford scored a sudden death overtime goal with 2:05 remaining to shock the George Mason Patriots, 3-2 before a goodnight owl crowd, with a game that began at 10:30 p.m.

Magic: The Gathering card game witnessed a change in its standard, the likes of which have rarely been seen, on Oct. 1. The new expansion, titled Scars of Mirrodin, was released rotating the Shards of Alara block out of standard and changing the face of the game as players knew it. Not only was the popular archetype Jund, which at its prime was played by no less than 40 percent of all players in every major event worldwide, thrown to the wind but the classic archetype of Blue-White Control was given even more power and has been seeing Top 8 placements in every event since Scars came out.

In perhaps its best game of the year, on the afternoon of Oct. 19 at Woodbridge’s Howison Homestead Park, NOVA lost a closely contested match to the National Junior College Athletic Association powerhouse Howard Community College Dragons.

Scholarships were presented to the students by Gen. James Amos, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps; Carlton Kent, sergeant major of the Marine Corps; and Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education, Scott D. Pearson. The event called attention to the critical need for public-private partnerships to support education initiatives for military families.