Leslie Banta’s memory of her nightmare is very sharp, the details burned into her brain, possibly furrowed somewhere near those loops and wrinkles that inform her work as an artist. Her family had just moved from Montgomery, Alabama, to Tuscaloosa—the same city, it bears mentioning, where multimedia artist William Christenberry spent much of his adolescence, […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
In the audio archives of National Public Radio, my voice is there, recorded live during…
The Monty Montgomery that Charlottesville remembers is largely gone, and the calm figure in his place doesn’t show any links to the madman that once inhabited his body.
Main feature: You can’t say that!Roll call for the 2008 Muzzle Awards, this year starring The Cavalier Daily and a host of other would-be censors If your business card advertises you as both a stand-up comedian and juggler, you might wonder if tacking on a third occupation—“lobbyist,” for example—is trying to keep one pin too […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
It’s a sick day, and Curtain Calls is sprawled across the sofa with ginger ale and crackers galore, malcontent for reasons beyond his grumbling, somersaulting gut.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
The songs on each of Paul Curreri’s albums are about the subtle movements and antiquated objects that a person fixates on when something immense is breathing down the back of a city’s shirt collar. An ache in an elbow joint, say, that tips a man off to a storm. A creaking floorboard. A mass of […]
Second-year art major Laura Lin is framing a handful of portraits—many watercolors, a few oil pastels, most still bearing the heavy pencil lashings of a young artist—on a makeshift table beneath a single lamp and an open ceiling.