Movie review: Solo: A Star Wars Story fills the blockbuster role
Like its title character, Solo: A Star Wars Story often threatens to go wildly off track and ruin everything it has going for it, before it comes back with charm […]
ARTS Pick: Charlottesville Symphony scores big with John Williams’ tribute
It’s fairly safe to assume that if you’ve watched movies, you have heard the work of legendary composer John Williams. To honor the soundtrack maestro, Music Director Benjamin Rous leads […]
On a lark: Old-time musicians reconnect with their local past
At a recent house show in Albemarle County, an audience member joined Bob Vasile and his friends, who were performing onstage. “He was 6’1″, 80 years old and looked like […]
Album reviews: Chip Wickham, Beach House, Eternal Summers, Yung Wu, The Sea and Cake and Deeper
Chip Wickham Shamal Wind (Lovemonk) Wickham, a flute-and-reeds player who has worked with artists from Badly Drawn Boy to Roy Ayers, relocated from Manchester to Qatar and emerged as a […]
ARTS Pick: Graham Stone takes his place in the folk scene
Based in Richmond, folk singer-songwriter Graham Stone has been gaining traction as one of the region’s up-and-coming artists. His 2017 debut album, Until the Day, showcases Stone’s impressive scope of […]
Free Union pushes social positivity on new EP
Last summer, Michael Coleman had a realization about the power of music. The night of August 12—after 24 hours of terror and chaos that included a torch-lit march led by […]
ARTS Pick: Danny Knicely and Jack Dunlap show off their chops
Master mandolinists Danny Knicely and Jack Dunlap (above) first connected when Knicely apprenticed Dunlap through the Virginia Folklife Program in 2015. A year later, the duo recorded its first album, […]
ARTS Pick: PBS series takes a closer look at the artistic process
Art Movie Night takes the form of a lawn party with desserts and a screening of the PBS Art21 series installment “Investigation,” a close look at the processes of Swiss […]
Movie review: Deadpool 2 suffers a sophomore slump
With Deadpool 2, the deconstruction becomes the norm. That’s not necessarily a bad thing given how bloated and redundant the X-Men franchise has become, and how terrifically its predecessor broke […]
ARTS Pick: The Oratorio Society of Virginia celebrates 50 years
In the 50 years since The Oratorio Society of Virginia made its debut with a performance of Handel’s Messiah in the auditorium of Albemarle High School, the group has infused […]