The shouts in St. Paul’s Memorial Church sound like a cross between ecstatic salvation and eternal damnation, but the man commanding the noise—Jason Kobielus, a lean, dark-haired third-year drama major at the University of Virginia—is almost completely quiet.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
The first two matches of the inaugural Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers tournament end quickly.
Ten years ago this month, a 27-year-old Louisiana native named Jeff Mangum and his band, Neutral Milk Hotel, released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, an album that spent the ensuing years turning mixed reviews into a near-uniform chorus of praise.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
It’s a quarter past 6am on February 2, and Curtain Calls is sitting inside a nearly empty…
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column here.
McGuffey Art Center’s main office is spilling short bits of sound—cats yawning in the sun, palms sifting through sand, teapots spouting steam, the gasps and sighs people make in their sleep and never acknowledge.
The following is a verbatim transcription of the dialogue between my id (which we’ll call “Blabbermouth Brendan”) and superego (“Neurotic Brendan”) during a performance by UVA Klezmer Ensemble leader Joel Rubin and Pete Rushefsky, a friend of Rubin since the two performed regularly together in upstate New York. Torah the Explorer? No, it’s Joel Rubin […]
I’m getting spooked,” says Anna Matijasic, the 26-year-old fiddler for Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees, and I know the feeling, a dull pounding in my gut. More: Country GrammarRecords that Jim Waive was listening to while recording Strike a Match It’s a bit past 8pm on a Wednesday last September. Jim Waive and the […]