As Charlottesville gears up for the second winter storm of the century—in 2010 alone!— galleries around town have postponed their first Friday openings, Morgan Perkins, director of Sage Moon Gallery said. McGuffey Arts Center announced it’d be throwing in the towel and picking up the shovel. Second Street Gallery—they’re opening a cool exhibit called “Conflict/Interest” this week—boldly led the pack with a cancellation yesterday evening.
But before I go any further with the bad news, here’s some people who appear to be braving the storm: A DJ set from Thomas Dean and Adam Smith, otherwise known as Lunatic and the Rascal, will go on at The Box will as planned at 10pm. Ditto, apparently, for The Garage on N. First Street, where you can see the opening of "It Was Real to Us," photographs by Sebastijen Jemec and Megan O’Hearn. (There will be hot chocolate there.)
Be safe if you’re going out, folks. Now, onward with the bad news:
The sold out Amos Lee show at the Jefferson Theater has been postponed until March 21. Tickets will be honored.
The sold out Iron & Wine show at the Paramount Theater has also been postponed to a date that’s yet to be determined because of the storm. Opera lovers are also out of luck, as the Met in HD presentation of Simon Boccanegra. The folks at Jefferson Theater will announce by 10am tomorrow morning whether the Amos Lee show, scheduled there tomorrow night, has been put off.
Over at UVA the Best of Both Worlds dance and step competition has been rescheduled for Valentine’s day. And the Virginia’s Got Talent? Competition is rescheduled for Sunday, February 28.
The Miller Center postponed two events, both of which looked pretty neat: Tomorrow’s scheduled talk by Peter D. Hannaford, called "Presidential Leadership and the Nature of Change," and the most distant cancellation so far, Monday’s talk by Susan Eisenhower—that’s Ike’s granddaughter—"America’s Energy Future: The Promise of an Interstate Energy Grid." The good news? You probably wouldn’t have been able to go anyway, since all of the Miller Center’s programming happens at 11am on weekdays.
Perkins said that Mudhouse Downtown would remain open, but I’d be surprised if there are any other holdouts, as it seems the whole commonwealth shuts down whenever a bit of dandruff falls from the Big Man’s shoulder. As for the ten or fifteen dudes I last weekend racing down the hill at Washington Park on an AeroBeds, let’s hope you’re ready for an early rematch.