Gonna get hot Feel the passionate fury of flamenco and the smoldering heat of tango at the Latin Ballet of Virginia’s Alma Latina. The production uses rhythm, music, and dance to celebrate the history of Latin America by weaving together tradition, culture, and politics. The company is joined by internationally known flamenco dancer Francisco “El […]
October Exhibitions Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library 170 McCormick Rd., UVA Grounds. “No Unity Without Justice” centers around the work of UVA students and Charlottesville community racial justice activists who organized demonstrations and events in response to Charlottesville’s 2017 Summer of Hate. Through October 29. “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and […]
By Carrie Meslar As I’m putting the finishing touches on this article in the San Diego airport, I’m also having a breakfast sandwich … when it hits me. This thing tastes like bacon. An uneasy feeling creeps in as I peel the sandwich apart to reveal a strip of the pig stuff. It tastes like […]
Kingdom of Mustang Into Beautiful BlueKool Kat Musik Kingdom of Mustang delivers its fourth album, Into Beautiful Blue, as a power pop slice of nostalgia. The band is a musical collaboration between members of the popular ’80’s-era UVA group The Deal—Mark Roebuck and Michael Clarke—along with Tim Ryan, and Rusty Speidel. Stacked with decades of […]
Heart of the matter On her fourth record, American bluegrass singer-songwriter Sierra Hull sheds light on the beauty, chaos, and sorrow of growing up. And after spending over half her life in the music industry, Hull has plenty of stories to tell—she played the Grand Ole Opry at age 10, Carnegie Hall at 12, signed […]
Memory lane Keep your wits about you during Four County Players’ production of The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ famous memory play. Cole Edwards stars as the narrator Tom Wingfield, a merchant marine reminiscing about the Depression years he spent with his overbearing mother and shy sister. The lyrically potent and intensely personal play examines the […]
Classical act Russian piano virtuoso Alexander Malofeev performs a program of classical compositions for the opening concert of the 2022-23 Tuesday Evening Concert Series. The 20-year-old will open the show with two works by Beethoven—the ethereal Moonlight and the dark and stormy Tempest—before the evening crescendos with Medtner’s rhapsodic Sonata in G Minor, and closes […]
CHS students protest Youngkin’s proposed transgender student policy Several hundred Charlottesville High School students walked out of class in protest of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposed transgender student policy on September 28, emphasizing the harmful impacts the guidelines could have on the health and safety of transgender students across Virginia. The controversial policy would force transgender […]
SOL scores drop Four Albemarle County elementary schools—Greer, Mountain View, Red Hill, and Woodbrook—have been accredited with conditions for the 2022-23 school year, meaning their Standards of Learning exam pass rates in one or more student demographic groups did not meet state standards, according to a statement issued by the school district on September 22. […]
By Ezra Maille Julie, a 21-year-old UVA student, was at a bar with her friends when she was physically assaulted. A stranger grabbed the baseball hat off her head, and when she attempted to get it back, he struck her in the face, before fleeing the scene and being apprehended by university police. After the […]