The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Face of the neighborhood [with video]
A middle-schooler on a motorized scooter putters up to the door of the Westhaven Community Center, leans his ride carefully onto the grass, then flings open the door and runs inside.
Nonfiction, with pulp
Despite all the button-busting, broad-chested swagger of the steeled human sculptures that form the skyline of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay—the Orson Welles drive to destroy something immense like a planet or a media structure, or the Harry Houdini pairing of ingenuity and stubbornness, superpowers grappling with human […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Corner philosophers
A single attendant opens the Corner parking lot at 9am every day, working the slow portion of the shift at the booth that stands watch over the asphalt tract behind the Satellite Ballroom.
Real Emotional Trash
Alright, local Pavement fans: If you want your local rock historian’s take on the new record from Stephen Malkmus…
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Joel’s tavern
In 1989, Joel Jones worked for Crutchfield electronics company and lived with John Quinn, then the resident director of a new local drama troupe called Offstage Theatre.
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco
I spend the first five minutes of Cirque du Soleil’s opening night at the John Paul Jones Arena, the first performance in a five-night stand by the Canadian-spectacle-gone-Vegas-glitz-fest, not writing a thing. Instead, I mutter awed syllables with the people around me, cutting phrases like “Did you see that?” and “How’d those trapeze artists pull […]