Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St. Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5pm. 923-3900. Through September 27: “Home Sweet Home: Scenes We Know and Love,” oil paintings by Randy Sights Baskerville. BozArt 211 W. Main St. Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. Through September 27: “Surfaces—Abstracts in Acrylic,” works by Ucky Light. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative 209 […]
What are you working on? I just got back from Puerto Rico, but before I left I’d been working on a lot of dance improv projects at the [Twisted Branch] Tea Bazaar with a group of friends, and I’d also been doing a lot of solo work over the past year with music improvisers. I’ve […]
We know that for years you’ve been seeing other people—and we’ve been watching you watching them. That’s right, we’re talking about TV. Eleven years ago, we celebrated the rise of cable-access wunderkind Trevor Moore, who went on to a Hollywood career from Covenant High School. And speaking of D-Listers, we subjected C-VILLE TV critic Eric […]
Some journalistic traditions deserve to endure: coverage of season-opening football games, jokes at the expense of millionaire rock bands, exasperation at callers who want to pitch stories about Charlotte. But there are certain stories we’d be glad to surrender to history. One example: the dire needs of people who don’t have health insurance who depend […]
Peter Hatch, whose books The Gardens of Monticello and The Fruit Trees of Monticello are standard-bearers in historic gardening
Art Upstairs Gallery 112 W. Main St. Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5pm. 923-3900. Through September 27: “Home Sweet Home: Scenes We Know and Love,” oil paintings by Randy Sights Baskerville. BozArt 211 W. Main St. Wednesday-Thursday, 3-9pm; Friday-Saturday, noon-9pm; Sunday, 1-4pm. 296-3919. www.bozartgallery.com. September 4-27: “Surfaces—Abstracts in Acrylic,” works by Ucky Light. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello […]
First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Angelo “Dreaming Dam Square,” mixed-media collages by Loes van Riel, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs Gallery “Home Sweet Home: Scenes We Know and Love,” oil paintings by Randy Sights Baskerville, 5-8pm. BozArt “Surfaces—Abstracts in […]
What are you working on right now? I’m working on a piece right now, about halfway finished, and the idea is that I’m doing this ring of fire floating on the waves. So we have several layers of waves, and I’m using larger flames as the ring comes around to the front, to the effect […]
Law and order is a great deal more complex than any 60-minute TV show can convey. It’s not just evidence and a verdict, that’s for sure. And that’s one reason we’ve looked at it from many angles over the years. From the gulf between the ideals of community policing and the funding it requires, to […]