It’s difficult. Even Virginia’s dean of political analysts Larry Sabato didn’t know how to explain three weeks of inaction in the U.S. House of Representatives at the same time two wars raged worldwide and one American party seemed determined to nominate a presidential candidate who has been found liable in two civil suits and is […]
In an odd way, the handsome 36-year-old at Vinny’s Italian Grill is a bit of a hero. Philip Andrew Hamilton, a divorced legal process server who’s reasonably new to Charlottesville, got crushed by Sally Hudson two years ago in a delegate race. Now, in the local state Senate “race,” the Republican is challenging central Virginia’s […]
stage Before there were docu-dramas or historical fictions, there were Shakespeare’s histories—just enough fact to make a good story believable and a believable story great. Playwright Carlyle Brown takes the origin of America’s first black theater company and twists it wonderfully into a history within a history and a play within a play for Culbreth […]
stage Run Rain Man, 48 Hours, Stalin, Mother Goose, The Brothers Grimm and The Passion of The Christ through the mind of Stephen King, add a dash of Kafka, a smidgeon of James Kilpatrick and a Beijing Book Review and you’ll have The Pillowman. It’s easy to see why Martin McDonagh’s work won an Olivier […]