Thank you, Burr Beard
Let me play Devil’s advocate here for a moment. Burr Beard—the controversial general manager who left WTJU last week less than six months after being hired, citing “family concerns”—is the best thing that ever happened to UVA’s community radio station. When Beard announced plans to introduce changes to WTJU’s programming that DJs feared would curb […]
Electric and eloquent: A conversation with the Extraordinaires
Catching up with the band before a show tonight at the Jefferson Theater.
Whats up this weekend?
Eternal Summers do the do tonight at the Tea Haus. Plus, plenty of other options, from Ann Sisters to Invisible Letters, and much more.
Darkness, light and Josh Ritter
The Festy Experience kicks off this weekend in Nelson County. This year’s lineup was curated by the Infamous Stringdusters, and includes local acts like Trees on Fire, and Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri (who will play together), and national acts like Railroad Earth and Toubab Krewe. Most exciting for many folk lovers is the Idaho-born […]
It's hip to be in a square
When I was given the assignment of traveling to a local elementary school to square dance, the first thing I did was panic. (I’m not much of a dancer, or at least it terrifies me.) The second was to go home and beg my girlfriend to come along. Fortunately, she had nothing else to do […]
You are invited to contribute to the secret Charlottesville compilation
Do you make music secretly? Send it to me anonymously for this mixtape
Melody Supreme, Charlottesville’s newest record store, lives
Plus, inside this week’s paper; the Virginia Film Fest will bare all; and the Tuesday Evening Concert Series season begins
Guillermo Del Toro is among special guests for Virginia Film Festival
Next month’s festival will feature "Pan’s Labyrinth" director and about 100 films over three days; Aronofsky’s "Black Swan" points at the festival’s new direction