Johnny St. Ours’ “Outliers” headed to Cannes Film Fest
48 Hour Film Project winner is an official selection at one of the world’s premiere film festivals
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts breaks its cocoon
When I-64 dumps Charlottesvillians in the heart of Richmond, and they see the stoplights, the long, flat stretches of pocked roads and chain restaurants they’ve never heard of, one thing usually comes to mind: I should have stayed in Charlottesville. But if there’s any reason to weather the task of getting to Richmond, it’s the […]
C-VILLE Minute: your weekend preview
Sons of Bill will almost definitely play some new tracks tonight, plus the inside scoop some of the other goings ons about town.
Another big award for the Virginia Quarterly Review
UVA’s decorated lit-journal wins an Utne Independent Press Award for international reporting
New World Odor; Barling and Collins; Self-released
Rarely have members of history’s great duos—Thelma and Louise, Simon and Garfunkel, Williams and Sonoma—used each other as an excuse to be so bawdy as guitarist Stephen Barling and cellist Brandon Collins. On their new full-length, New World Odor, Barling and Collins casts a demented eye toward silly topics: e-mail spam, staying up all night […]
Daughtry guitarist's recording studio takes shape
Brian Craddock remembers the first time he ever saw Shep Stacy. Craddock was sitting in a classroom at Albemarle High School, looking at a band that was playing in the courtyard. Playing music during school was a special privilege that was reserved, he says, for only the most well-behaved rockers. An impressionable freshman at the […]
George Melvin, local jazz pianist, has died
The celebrated musician would have turned 64 next month.
Who’s the coolest woman in Charlottesville r&r?
Is it Marie from Corsair? Sarah White? Pompadour’s drummer? Join an informal readers’ poll.
Flaming Lips; The Charlottesville Pavilion; Thursday, April 15
If you were at the Flaming Lips concert at the Charlottesville Pavilion in 2006, Thursday night’s show might have felt like a time warp.