Botanical Fare’s Drag Bingo is a game night like no other. Come ready to play multiple rounds to win merch, gift cards, and more. Hosts Chicki Parm and Cake Pop! (right) serve realness and keep the party rolling, while the café serves up the vegan eats. Take a break between games to watch a dazzling […]
Mary Alice Hostetter understood the power of words and stories very early on. Her new book, Plain: A Memoir of Mennonite Girlhood, chronicles her journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Over the course of the book, Hostetter leaves behind the fields and fences of her […]
Return of SROs? After replacing school resource officers with unarmed safety coaches, Albemarle County Public Schools is considering bringing police back into Albemarle High School, in response to parents’ complaints about fights, truancy, vaping, sexual assault, and other student misconduct. “Working with the police department to hire and assign a highly effective, well-trained school resource […]
Stand-up comedian Brian Regan is known for his mirthful routines that tackle mundane, everyday events like how to cook Pop-Tarts, visits to the doctor, and the refrigerator’s meat drawer. Regan embodies his jokes with a big physicality that includes plenty of funny facial expressions, and fills the entire theater. The “comedian’s comedian” hosted his second […]
The Lua Project blends multiple music styles from different continents and centuries into one cohesive sound. Deeming themselves “cultural pollinators,” the band sings about contemporary themes of family, work, and loss, while drawing on elements of Son Mexicano, Appalachian song forms, Jewish and Eastern European tonalities, baroque melodies, and Scotch-Irish narrative storytelling. The performance accompanies […]
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 […]