Watching Steve Keene paint is a bit like watching the Ford Motor Company run in reverse. The goals are the same—a simple process and affordable products—but the assembly line is all screwy, as if Keene carelessly painted over it with images of Bob Dylan or John Coltrane or beer cans. In the Steve Keene assembly […]
Can she out-Baez Joan Baez, who performs the previous night?
His descriptive skills and narratives could put other writers to shame. But we’re hanging our heads for another reason entirely.
Virginia Quarterly Review nabs praise for one of the year’s best magazine covers.
Or, what my vacation had to do with Dr. Pepper, Axl Rose and Barry Manilow
An exclusive look at the folk and blues legend’s 2005 concert in Charlottesville.
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Let’s put the whole “one-horse open sleigh” and “making spirits bright” thing aside for a second and look at the rest of the verses for “Jingle Bells.” Want the CliffsNotes version? The man driving the sleigh picks up a gal, promptly dumps himself and his date into a snowdrift, gets laughed at by a stranger, […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
Not to dog all over that lovely photo of Brad Pitt on our cover but, it being Thanksgiving and all, some holiday film fare is in order. Sure, some of you are practically aging in reverse over Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But the rest of us? Well, we have other Benjamins to […]