In the second season premiere of “My Life on the D-List” (Tuesday, June 6, 9pm, Bravo), comedienne Kathy Griffin, fresh from playing the Paramount, spends a substantial amount of time tooling around Charlottesvilleâand the resulting footage is not pretty (just take a glance at the adjoining sidebar, and recoil at our rube-itude).
The survey included 944 military respondents interviewed at several undisclosed locations throughout Iraq. The survey was conducted January 18–February 14, 2006. The margin of error for this survey is +/-3.3 percentage points.It began with a bunker-busting missile barrage known as “Shock and Awe,” and now, three long years later, the war grinds inexorably on—no longer […]
Art Spiegelman would have been like any other adolescent comic fan, losing interest in the form at about age 13, but for the fact that right about that time he discovered something that hijacked his attention—ka-pow!—and turned him into a lifelong comics reader. For Spiegelman, that was Marvel’s trippy, mystical Dr. Strange series by […]
Bill Cosby. Blackalicious. The Rolling Stones. A year ago, it would have been almost unthinkable that artists this big, this cool, would be coming to little ol’ Charlottesville. And yet here we are on the eve of the 2005-2006 cultural season, and here they are, gracing our stages, playing our clubs, generally rocking our worlds. […]
When Second Street Gallery vacated its home in the McGuffey Art Center—its location since 1984—City-subsidized McGuffey was left with 850 square feet of prime real estate and several options. Suggestions ranged from more studios to accommodate the collective’s ever-growing applicant pool to a large sculpture gallery to a guest-curated space to be run by non-McGuffey […]
The Lewis and Clark celebration currently showering down on Charlottesville gives a mostly rosy account of the “discovery” of the American West by Thomas Jefferson’s intrepid explorers. But, as they say, history is written by the winners. Corey D. B. Walker’s job is to give a voice to history’s underdogs. “One thing that I’m interested […]
After two UVA fraternity brothers decided to express themselves by donning blackface and tennis dresses to portray Venus and Serena Williams at a recent Halloween party, it became clear that many people—on and off Grounds—know little about the region’s painful past regarding race relations and other social issues. Corey D. B. Walker aims to fix […]