Enjoy a sophisticated afternoon at the opera with The Met Livein HD screening of Fedora. The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Umberto Giordano’s breathtaking drama is full of arresting arias, magnificent melodies, and charged confrontations. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva stars as Fedora, a 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer. Maestro Marco Armiliato […]
City councilor resigns After two years of serving on Charlottesville City Council, Sena Magill has resigned. Magill announced her surprising departure at the end of council’s January 3 meeting. Overcome by tears, she asked Councilor Michael Payne to read her resignation statement on her behalf. “The needs of my family have changed during my term […]
Baker Gallery Woodberry Forest School, 898 Woodberry Forest Rd., Woodberry Forest. “Studies in Nature” by Kelly Coffin. Through February. Botanical Fare 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. Watercolor paintings by Juliette Swenson. Opens January 17. Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. “A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world” showcases […]
Acoustic guitar and mandolin player Flynn Cohen makes original music that’s both experimental and traditional. Drawing from a range of techniques and influences, including flatpicking, strumming, Irish, and old-time music, Cohen pushes against convention with a mastery of many styles. When he’s not playing solo, Cohen tours with award-winning folk band Low Lily, and Irish […]
Suit up for an off the hook night of individual jamming together at Pro Re Nata’s Silent Disco. Dancers can groove out on their own terms using wireless headphones that feature different music channels and adjustable volume. Switch between a live DJ, oldies and country, 2000s throwbacks, and electronic dance, to find the rhythm that’s […]
Settle in and order extra popcorn, because the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring clocks in at just under four hours. Peter Jackson’s fantasy classic is back for a special screening to ring in the new year. Follow along as Frodo and the fellowship battle terrifying orcs and […]
Rebecca Berlin joins county school board Rebecca Berlin is the newest member of the Albemarle County School Board. On December 15, the board unanimously voted to appoint Berlin to the White Hall Magisterial District seat. Berlin replaced longtime board member David Oberg, who represented the district for seven years. In October, Oberg announced he was […]
By Paul Rosenberg with illustrations by Anson Stevens-Bollen Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories—like Watergate before the 1972 election—that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful […]
Richmond removes final Confederate statue Richmond removed its statue of A.P. Hill on December 12—the last of the Confederate monuments owned by the city to come down. Just before 10am, a crane lifted the bronze statue, located in the middle of a busy intersection, off its pedestal and onto a flatbed truck. The monument was […]
Sarah White’s Country Christmas Show returns for a festive evening filled with twinkling lights, decorated trees, delicious cookies, and, of course, honky-tonk tunes. The Virginia-based singer-songwriter began her career in the late ’90s, and has since performed with Merle Haggard, Justin Townes Earle, Earl Scruggs, and Dave Matthews Band. For her Christmas show, she brings […]