Liv­ing in Vir­ginia means you have slightly more love for the work of Edgar Allan Poe than your aver­age Amer­i­can — and if you don’t, you prob­a­bly should. CORE The­atre Ensem­ble is pre­sent­ing some­thing very cool this week­end: a series of Poe sto­ries and poems recre­ated by a team of five actors. Should be creepy and eerie and great, and for only $10 the price is just right.

By now, you’ve cer­tainly heard of “The Wrestler.” Golden Globes, Acad­emy Awards, SAG Awards-you name it, and it’s prob­a­bly already been said about Dar­ren Aronofsky’s lat­est work. Star­ring Mickey Rourke and fea­tur­ing Marisa Tomei and Even Rachel Wood, “The Wrestler” promises a gritty glimpse into a life of a washed up pro­fes­sional wrestler with wan­ing dreams of a comeback.