Ruin(s) your evening: Song, comedy, and theater make a magical midsummer evening at Shakespeare at the Ruins. Four County Players, central Virginia’s longest continuously operating community theater, returns to the historic Barboursville ruins to open its 50th anniversary season with As You Like It. Katie Rogers, Kate Johnson, Robert Wray, and Robert Eversberg star in […]
Secret session: After 18 years together as musical and life partners, Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz have unlocked the formula to making remarkable jazz. Influenced by Celtic, Brazilian, and Indian music, as well as the New York jazz scene, McGarry’s luminous, seductive voice and Ganz’s expansive arrangements have earned the pair three Grammy nominations. In […]
Solo and soulful: The one-man band Theocles is the project of local singer-songwriter Theo Herrin, who left a job at the Mayo Clinic in 2020 to work as a full-time musician and teaching artist at The Front Porch. Equipped with just a mic, guitar, and loop pedal, Herrin’s live shows feature soulful pop covers, from […]
One of Youngkin’s new Board of Visitors appointees opposes UVA’s ‘wokeness’ Last month, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced four new appointees to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors: Dr. Stephen Long, Amanda Pillion, Doug Wetmore, and Bert Ellis Jr. Unlike the other appointees, Ellis, CEO of Ellis Capital, has been vocal online in his support […]
March on: An old classic is infused with modern sensibilities at the Virginia Theatre Festival. Acclaimed playwright Kate Hamill takes Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women in a contemporary direction that sees the March sisters grappling with traditional gender roles, political beliefs, family dynamics, and love, as they grow from children to adults in a […]
Break loose: Local singer-songwriter Silas Frayser formed a sound that rests between acoustic beach rock and folk rock. His 2021 EP, The Silas Frayser Band, features emotive vocals, catchy picking, and lyrics that deserve a second listen. The guitarist’s duo provides the smooth tunes needed for a stress-free night following Pandemonium Day—a day for letting […]
Looking back: Photojournalist Eze Amos took more than 9,000 photographs on August 12, 2017. Now, five years later, he is sharing what he experienced and witnessed during and after the alt-right rally in his exhibition, “Witnessing Resistance.” Featuring 18 images taken between 2016 and 2017, the show is narrated by Amos, and it acts as […]
Rent prices on the rise While Charlottesville is seeking ways to make housing more affordable (see p. 12), rent prices keep climbing as pandemic eviction protection and rental assistance programs end. “Just over the past month, the median rent increased by 2.3 percent. And when we look year over year, rents in Charlottesville are now […]
By Katie Kenny In the past few decades, rising housing costs have forced many families who have lived in Charlottesville for generations to move out of the city. They’ve left for Louisa, Fluvanna, and Greene counties and the City of Waynesboro, localities close enough to commute to Charlottesville but where the cost of living is […]
Pop-noir: New Jersey-bred singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins captured the romance and danger of the Jersey Shore’s sprawling boardwalk with psych-rock grooves, girl-group melodrama, and a bit of honky-tonk on her 2020 release Italian Ice. Not ready to let the sounds of summer go, a year later Atkins released Memphis Ice—a stripped-down, cabaret-style reimagining of the songs […]