Magic kids: A conversation with the team behind “Make Believe”
We caught up with local native J. Clay Tweel before the October 8 screening of his film about teen magicians
Victory lap
In Chad Harbach’s debut novel, The Art of Fielding, morning sprints and protein shakes are the stuff that dreams are made on. The book follows shortstop Henry Skrimshander, the rising star of Wisconson’s Westish College Harpooners, as one wayward throw knocks his meteoric rise off course and forever alters the lives of his teammates. Excerpted […]
UVA grads at work on a feature-length comedy
Check out the trailer for "Cute Kitten Video" (Please Watch)
Victory lap: Novelist Chad Harbach talks his blockbuster debut novel The Art of Fielding
Harbach reads at New Dominion on September 30
Doctor Feel Good
If the predictions of University of Virginia bioethicist John Arras are accurate, history will look kindly on our scientists, which can’t be said for many previous generations of U.S. researchers.
School of thought
UVA President Teresa Sullivan argued for the economic benefits of university-based research in a speech last week entitled “Higher Education as the Engine of the American Economy,” the first in the Miller Center of Public Affairs’ fall forum season. Sullivan’s recipe for economic growth? “Gather diverse human talent in a university setting, add proper financial […]
Quiet destroyer
As the Microphones, the Anacortes, Washington-based musician Phil Elverum released The Glow, Pt. 2 in 2001, through the tastemaking K Records. The record channeled analogue warmth and a personal style that turned the songwriter and studio whiz into one of indie rock’s most respected.
Mount Eerie’s elusive Elverum talks new record, David Lynch and more
Mount Eerie plays the UVA Chapel later this month
Minding her beeswax
To be a sculptor or a painter these days means living and dying by the photographs on your website. Martha Saunders, who has painted with beeswax for the last decade, often jokes about switching to a medium that's easier to photograph than encaustic, but she is quick to credit photographer Scott Smith with bringing her work to life online.
A Q&A with the encaustic painter Martha Saunders
Saunders has a show at Les Yeux du Monde through September