Checking in with Sian Richards
What are you working on right now? The Performers Exchange Project is looking to add a few gigs for our last performance, Our American Ann Sisters. We performed here, we performed it at the Hamner, we took it a few other places. We took it to the Catskills in New York, so we’re looking to […]
You have no secrets
Headbone connects to the headphones Headphones connect to the iPhone iPhone connected to the Internet Connected to the Google Connected to the government. —M.I.A., “The Message” You are being watched. Your Facebook friends are watching you. So are their Facebook friends, and total strangers. The guys who run Facebook, too. Your keystrokes […]
City Market in the market for a permanent home after 17 years
Sales have tripled at the City Market in the past decade and more growth is expected.
New Stories from the South 2010; Amy Hempel, editor; Algonquin Books
At first glance, the landmark 25th edition of Algonquin’s venerable New Stories From the South appears to be alphabetically arranged. It starts off with newcomer Adam Atlas and then moves on to old-timer Rick Bass, who led off 2007’s A-to-Z version—but then it jumps down the alphabet to Brad Watson, who has not only the […]
A magic isle of fabric and tape
At Four County Players' Cellar black box theater, the low ceiling and columns are delicious obstacles.
The Dishwashers; Live Arts; through November 14
Even before the action begins in the Live Arts production of Morris Panych’s The Dishwashers
City Market vendors pay 150 percent more in state fees
The manager and food vendors of the Charlottesville City Market received an unpleasant surprise upon opening the bill
Readers respond to previous issues
Abortion is risky I am glad that Ms. Daugherty and the women she interviewed were unharmed by their abortions [“Cuccinelli versus women’s health?” Opinion, Sept. 21]. Sadly, not all women share that experience. Like all surgeries, abortion poses serious risks. These include excessive bleeding, puncture of the uterus, infection, and (rarely) maternal death. Abortion facilities […]
New rules could make safer abortions more difficult to acquire
Abortion, legal since 1973, is the most common surgical procedure that women get, and one-third of all American women have had one