Printmaking is a messy art requiring space that isn’t always available at home. Artists Thomas Dean and Jeremy Taylor are hoping to help solve this problem at Infinite Repeats, a gallery and studio that offers creatives the space and equipment to work on their projects, including screen printing, etching, and risograph printing. “It’s a great […]
Local soccer fans considering making the trip to New York or Los Angeles for the 2026 World Cup or 2028 Olympics needn’t go that far for a fix. In fact, they’ll only have to travel as far as St. Anne’s-Belfield, where Charlottesville Blues FC is looking to seize on the growing popularity of American […]
The theme of Anton Chekhov’s 1898 play Uncle Vanya is captured by two words in the title of Aaron Posner’s 2015 adaptation: life sucks. That message won’t have audiences leaving the theater downhearted, however, when Live Arts kicks off its 33rd season with a concurrent run of Uncle Vanya and Life Sucks. Even if the […]
Since 2013, the City of Charlottesville has officially recognized the third Saturday of September as Cville Sabroso Day. This year, more than 4,000 people are expected in Washington Park for the annual Cville Sabroso Festival, central Virginia’s largest annual Latin American music, dance, and culture gathering. That will break the event’s previous attendance record, according […]
Midfielder Grace Santos and goalkeeper Carver Miller made their professional debuts 73 days and a continent apart. Santos’ team won in Reykjavík, Iceland. Miller’s squad triumphed in Portland, Oregon. Neither victory came easily. Santos set up for a corner kick on April 27 knowing her team, Fram F.C., was the underdog in a clash with […]
In the midst of preparations for the Virginia Theatre Festival’s production of Cabaret, lead actor Ainsley Seiger missed a few rehearsals to fly to Monaco for the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. That’s the cost of staging a play led by an actor with a regular role on NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” And it’s a […]
A baseball catcher has a dangerous job. There are the usual risks, like knee strain and getting hit by foul balls, but junior Kyle Teel had something new to worry about on Sunday, June 11. If the University of Virginia won game three of the best-of-three Super Regional against Duke, the team would celebrate qualifying […]
For fans who enjoy pointing to their televisions and saying, “I watched them back when they played for UVA,” this University of Virginia athletics season is required viewing. From marking national bests and setting school records, to going on championship streaks to taking teams to the postseason, athletes are making UVA history this year—and they’re […]
One day, Psyche Williams-Forson’s daughter stopped letting her father pack Ghanaian food for her lunch. Her lunchbox smelled different than others, and she didn’t want to be made fun of. This is still a familiar scene for some American students coming from migrant families, and unless people rethink their understanding of food culture, it will […]
A man catches a silver trout, which turns into a “glimmering girl with apple blossom in her hair” before fading away. Though he grows old searching for her, he will find where she has gone, pledges the narrator of William Butler Yeats’ ethereal 1897 poem “The Song of Wandering Aengus.” This yearning poem’s lyrics open […]