PICK: Guy Clark Documentary
Texas tuned: Guy Clark (left) was known as a songwriter’s songwriter. The legendary musician-luthier’s songs have been covered by a range of Nashville heavies, from Jerry Jeff Walker and Ricky […]
PICK: Nettle Shirts Puppet Works
Puppet love: In Jane Yolen’s original fairy tale “Dawn-Strider,” a jealous giant named Night-Crawler captures the sun from the sky before learning an important lesson about love. Nettle Shirts Puppet […]
In brief: Mail woes, nothing but net
Ball together All eyes were on Tonsler Park Sunday night for the Banks Collage Basketball Association Championship. Some fans set up lawn chairs around the court, and others leaned on […]
Galleries: September
September shows Atlas Coffee 2206 Fontaine Ave. A selection of photographs by Katie Hickson. BozART Located in Hot Cakes, Barracks Road Shopping Center. “Local-scapes,” landscapes in oil by Julia Kindred. […]
PICK: Freefall Music Festival
Falling for it: Just like local alt-weeklies, local alt-radio stations are fans of the well-crafted pun. Which is why WTJU’s Freefall Music Festival is exactly what it sounds like: concerts […]
PICK: Craig Karges
Totally mental: Mentalist and illusionist Craig Karges opens PVCC’s live performance season with a challenge: If you can prove that volunteer audience members are actually coached ahead of time, and […]
PICK: Brent Cobb
Southern goodness: Brent Cobb found fame in Nashville, but his heart remained in his home state of Georgia. Now that he’s based in the Peach State again, he’s taking a […]
In brief: Refugees welcome, Albemarle bans guns
Refugees welcome Over the weekend, activists gathered in downtown Charlottesville to draw attention to the crisis in Afghanistan, where extremist Taliban forces recently seized control of the government following U.S. […]
On the agenda
Keep everyone safe from COVID Starting this week, both city and county schools will have most students physically in class five days a week, for the first time since the […]
PICK: Elle Cosimano
Mystery machine: Finish up your summer reading list with a bang during an evening with mystery author Elle Cosimano. She’s got a stack of young-adult thrillers to her name, and […]