The second annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph starts the show nearly a week early with a screening of Control, a biopic about the Manchester, England, punk act Joy Division and the life and death of the group’s lead singer, Ian Curtis. The film will screen at Vinegar Hill Theatre on Friday, June 6, at 9:30pm, for a ticket price of $10.
The Daily Progress’ website is currently accepting submissions for the 2008 Readers’ Choice Awards, soliciting votes in a slew of categories under the heading “Vote for your favorite in the Charlottesville area!” But for those of you who don’t like playing favorites, don’t worry – the Progress’ contest is all about R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
The doors of Satellite Ballroom opened at 8:30pm and, 90 minutes later, my notebook was every bit as empty as my $3 Red Stripe. There were no signs of any performers taking the stage, but I could see them among a collection of high schoolers and one young man that resembled Garth from “Wayne’s World” […]
The final words that Theodore Estes, son of a Nelson County sheriff, heard before the bullets from Nelson County judge William Loving’s gun sent him spiraling out of this life on April 22, 1907, were an indictment, conviction and sentence, packed with gunpowder and sent through his 26-year-old body. “So you were out buggy riding […]
Art galleries are a bit like the Hokey Pokey—either your left foot is headed in, or your left foot is out. Maybe you’re the type of person that makes time in your life to see John Doe Michelangelo’s latest oil paintings, and maybe you’re not. These two types of people are as separate as collage […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
A collection of more than 100 boots bearing the names, ages and hometowns of Virginia residents killed in the Iraq War are on display at the east end of the Downtown Mall, parallel to the Free Speech Wall. The exhibit is on display afternoons through Sunday, May 25…
In 2000, Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren curated a site-specific exhibit for the UVA Art Museum, titled “Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium.” The show featured works by many artists that Warren and her gallery represent currently, from Megan Marlatt and UVA associate art professor William Bennett to Rosemarie Fiore and Lydia […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Months after the November announcement that Daniel P. Jordan, the 24-year veteran and chief executive of Monticello’s governing body, would retire, a press release from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has announced that Leslie Greene Bowman will take over on November 1 of this year. Bowman’s appointment is timed to coincide with the opening of the 42,000 square foot, $55 million Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center and Smith Education Center.