Sons of Bill, with Shannon Worrell
The doors open at 8pm and, half an hour later, only 20 people or so circle around the line of cocktail tables at the rear of the Satellite Ballroom, or step over to the bar to grab a Kalamazoo Stout …
C'ville hip-hop R.I.P.?
Inside the warm wooden belly of the Outback Lodge, a crew of local rap musicians named Heavy Hustle Entertainment has finished its set of tunes and roams the floor in a pack, their homemade black t-shirts bearing the words "Heavy Hustle Ent." on the front and, on the back, stage names like "Big Mike" and "Young Shotti," baseball caps sporting the abbreviation or outline of their home state, Virginia.
Art at 35 mph [with photo gallery]
The holiday vandal is strong, Elizabeth Breeden is certain of that. Strong enough to knock the head from "The Biker," Richard Whitehill's steel sculpture that pedals in suspended animation on McIntire Road, with a sledgehammer…
The Big Doe Rehab
cd When gangsta rap ensemble Wu-Tang Clan recorded "Da Mystery of Chessboxin’" for 1993’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), they opened the track with a clip from a 1981 martial arts film called Shaolin & Wu Tang. In the film, members of rival kung-fu clans are pitted against one another by a government official that […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column.
Screw Santa! [with video]
During the snowfall last week, a light dusting that nearly brought the city to its knees, Curt was asleep, his TV still casting scenes from…
Danny Schmidt, with Louis Ledford [with audio]
music A week before his solo set at the Gravity Lounge, Danny Schmidt sat next to Paul Curreri on a sofa onstage while Jan Smith performed his song "Dark-Eyed Prince" as part of the annual King of My Living Room concert. Smith gave Schmidt’s song the slow, measured tempo it keeps on record, her voice […]
The C-VILLE Minute! [video]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts column. Read this week’s column.
Old-fashioned [with video]
Fifty-seven years old and a fit, striking presence, Tim O'Kane appears much younger than his age despite his grey hair, pulled back into a short ponytail that hangs taut above the collar of a blue rugby shirt.
Twelfth Night
stage Despite signs pointing to the contrary, I have felt like some relentless Shakes-peer is bribing local theater companies to perform Twelfth Night and formed the impression that the show has been up on nearly every local stage in the past year. In actuality, the only other theater to stage the show this year was […]