When Diane Flynt signs onto a Zoom call from her home in southwest Virginia, the connection is spotty at first. That’s a tradeoff of rural living that she gladly accepts. Sporting a college-style sweatshirt reading KALE, she radiates a love for the land around her and what it can produce—a love that permeates her new […]
When Diane Flynt signs onto a Zoom call from her home in southwest Virginia, the connection is spotty at first. That’s a tradeoff of rural living that she gladly accepts. Sporting a college-style sweatshirt reading KALE, she radiates a love for the land around her and what it can produce—a love that permeates her new […]
There’s always a special energy in the air when musicians play their hometown stage. Guitarist Joe Lawlor is usually on the road with Dave Matthews Band, where he works behind the scenes in the audio crew. An accomplished musician in his own right, Lawlor is a founding member of several progressive funk and rock bands, […]
A love triangle plays out in All is Apathetic in Love & War, an immersive opera from Mexican American composer Nathan Felix that utilizes space, movement, and acoustics in unconventional ways. Brothers Evander and Santiago (baritone Ryan Davis and tenor Vaughan Jones II) vie for the indifferent Ophelia’s heart (soprano Jenna Grissom) while navigating trauma […]
Treat yourself to one last fright at the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra’s Symphonic Masquerade: An Evening of Specters, Spirits, and Spies. The suspense-filled concert ranges from classic to Broadway, and film to television soundtracks. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres before settling in for hair-raising renditions of compositions from Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, Mussorgky’s Night on Bald Mountain, […]
The taps are flowing and the speakers are booming at the long-awaited Superfly Brewing Co. Rock outfits Suzie True, Gnawing, and Work Wear headline the brewery’s first ever live show. LA-based trio Suzie True blends slice-of-life lyricism with indie rock instrumentals to explore the modern femme experience. From Richmond, Gnawing likes its rock ‘n’ roll […]
If Frank Capra magically came back to life and decided to remake It’s a Wonderful Life in Charlottesville, Chris Farina would be his George Bailey. The guy itchy for travel, the guy who has always celebrated and stuck up for the little guy—in his work managing the countercultural Corner Parking Lot; in his quietly forceful […]
Brent Cobb has written hit songs for Nashville heavyweights like Luke Bryan, Little Big Town, and Miranda Lambert, to name a few. But throughout the handful of records he’s released under his own name, he’s always carried himself with a laidback ease, projecting backroads’ casualness instead of polished Music City ambition. He sings with a […]
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is nearly three and a half hours long, but its length just means the great filmmaker did justice to this sweeping, fascinating story. Flower Moon moves like a long fuse tensely burning down to an inevitable explosion. It’s a hypnotic, gorgeous, grand work and Scorsese’s best in years. […]
Something about October makes me melancholy. The waning light, the dropping leaves. Back-to-school schedules, and the looming pressure to make happy holidays happen. All I really want to do is bask in the honeyed light of late afternoon—that golden hour—and do nothing. Look at the sky, watch for hawks, wish upon a pumpkin that my […]
And just like that, the Virginia Film Festival is a wrap. The five-day fest was full of memorable on- and off-screen moments, from Jon Batiste’s piano serenade, to the U.S. premiere of award-winning filmmaker Ava Duvernay’s Origin. A biographical drama inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s nonfiction book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the film follows […]