The Rural Alberta Advantage Mended with Gold/Saddle Creek The Rural Alberta Advantage’s newest project will make you sweat. Between the perpetually chugging drum beats, driving guitars, and lead singer-songwriter Nils Edenloff’s singing, there’s no aspect of this album that doesn’t scream, “Dance, dance, dance!” Oddly enough, however, this is not a happy record, and much […]
To celebrate the first birthday of her online literary journal Full Grown People on October 4, editor Jennifer Niesslein published a book. “Full Grown People: The Greatest Hits, Volume 1 gives you a good idea of our breadth,” she said. “It covers a lot, from parenting issues, when you’re looking at maybe your kids leaving […]
Far from the ordinary costume party, TRIX at Ix promises to up the ante on All Hallows’ Eve with a jam-packed live music lineup featuring Chamomile & Whiskey, We Are Star Children (above), Shagwüf with Sally Rose, EurythmIX with Lauren Hoffman, and Girl Choir. Local artist Russell Richards demonstrates his trademark mask creation while the […]
Leave a barrel of fun size bars on the porch and immerse yourself in the madness of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein played out by a highly talented cast. The horror classic is brought to the screen from London’s National Theatre, and directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate the […]
It’s about time to revisit the way we talk about Keanu Reeves. For over two decades, his name has been synonymous with stiff acting and dim surfer dudes. But between his stint as a stunningly capable interviewer of film greats in 2012’s Side by Side and his thoroughly enjoyable directorial debut with last year’s Man […]
Local playwright, actor, UVA drama lecturer, and wellness coach Denise Stewart is on a sugar fast. “I’m on day four because I thought it would be interesting and fun and maybe something to blog about. It’s already hard,” she said. But not as hard as the 30-day raw food fast she did earlier this year. […]
Legendary pianist Allen Toussaint has been a staple of the New Orleans R&B scene for more than half a century, playing theaters and clubs and influencing and collaborating with marquee names like Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, and NOLA’s own Preservation Hall Jazz Band. In honor of their shared […]
The biggest show of the year is hitting The Southern Café and Music Hall on Halloween night, and you probably haven’t even heard about it yet. “Oh yeah,” said Alex Angelich. “It’s the most fun we have all year.” For just $10, the Southern puts on what will no doubt be the most star-studded single […]
Deconstructed displays its dichotomy right off the bat. The sophomore missive from Birmingham, Alabama’s Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires opens with a greasy overdriven guitar riff and some howling gospel-inflected vocalizations from Bains. Twenty-five seconds into “The Company Man,” the drums and bass kick in and it’s pure boogie, twin guitars trading twangy […]
Anne Slaughter has been a familiar presence on the Charlottesville art scene for many years, her oeuvre being most notable for its heavily worked surfaces. Slaughter spends enormous effort on these, building them up with layers of pigment, “Many, many layers,” she emphasized. She’s constantly tinkering, applying paint and then sanding it down, reapplying paint […]