There are no white-hot breaths of feedback, no gallumphing bass lines, bleeding from Jarrod Hood’s small wooden house in Belmont where local heavy metal band Horsefang practices a couple nights per week. Not yet. Instead, there are a few yips from Hank, a skittish hound, and Rigel, a squat bulldog, as Nicholas Liivak, Horsefang’s guitarist, […]
Mystified by the selection of author John Grisham and Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley as the commencement and valedictory speakers for UVA’s graduating class of 2007, C-VILLE went about brainstorming the selection process. While not precisely steeped in “fact” or “reality,” this was by far our most entertaining conclusion. Enjoy. Dusk had fallen like […]
Vusi Mahlasela doesn’t sound like I expect him to when he greets me over the phone. His voice sounds nothing like the lilting, weaving instrument that leads Zulu music legends Ladysmith Black Mambazo through a series of “whoop” and “yeeeee” noises on the song “Heaven In My Heart,” nor does it bear the smoke-rounded, South […]
cd Here are my two Helen Horal anecdotes: I first met Helen on November 16, 2006—the night that she won the First Amendment Writes competition at Starr Hill. Horal plugged her acoustic guitar into an amp in a back room at the Biltmore and ran through a victorious-if-giddy rendition of “Wonderwall” by Oasis. Up there […]
Six millimeters could’ve made all the difference for Christopher Allen Smith. While many cities have regulations that go beyond the federal rules on imitation firearms, all meet one minuscule requirement: “Each toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm shall have…a blaze orange plug inserted into the barrel of such toy…recessed no more than six millimeters from the […]
The last four films to screen at Carmike Cinema on Friday, April 20, all began at approximately 10pm. The longest of the bunch at 104 minutes, Disturbia—a blend of teen horror and Hitchcock’s voyeuristic Rear Window—most likely finished before midnight. At roughly 1am on Saturday morning, someone had their eyes trained on Carmike Cinema: The […]
“Operation Hook-Up” began in the summer of 2006 when Fifeville neighbors began calling the Charlottesville Police Department to complain about alleged acts of prostitution in Tonsler Park on Cherry Avenue. Word worked its way to Sergeant Marc Brake and, after problems were verified through surveillance and foot patrol efforts, a few undercover officers, including Joseph […]
Thirty years ago, it was more common to arrange sexual favors through a direct trade for narcotics, according to an inmate at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail. But Charlottesville’s finest don’t deal with direct trades; rather, undercover officers such as the Charlottesville Police Department’s Joe Brown need to ensure that suspected prostitutes agree to a specific […]
Welcome to “Chuck Town,” a percussion-heavy province where the “Godfather of Go-Go” himself calls the shots over brass and warbling guitar funk, and his loyal subjects shout from their doorways and windows,
music There are new fliers around the Satellite Ballroom tonight: Two hang loosely from the PA system near the stage, a third sits above the bar and all of them read: “Have Fun. No Stage Diving. No Crowd Surfing.” Danny Shea, manager of Plan 9’s Corner location and booking agent for the Ballroom, says that […]