ARTS Pick: Jake Shimabukuro
Eddie Vedder, tUnE-yArDs, and every nimble-fingered kid with a YouTube channel have ensured a full-on ukulele revival, but Honolulu-born Jake Shimabukuro is emerging from the pack a “technical hero.”
Film review: 42
Thankfully, 42 isn’t sanctimonious and Jackie isn’t sage-like. From the movie’s perspective, he’s just a boring guy who wants to play baseball. Jackie also knows that he has to be the coolest head on the field; Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) tells him as much.
Local record shops anticipate sixth annual Record Store Day
“For me, every day is Record Store Day,’” says Gwenaël Berthy. Since 2010, Berthy has been the owner and sole staff member of Melody Supreme, a vinyl-only record store on 4th St. downtown. Record Store Day, founded in 2007, is an international “holiday” founded with the intention of helping to keep stores like Melody Supreme […]
ARTS Pick: Stan Winston Festival of the Moving Creature
Chances are, your favorite creature feature stars the work of makeup and special effects master, and UVA alumnus, Stan Winston.
UVA’s innovative Ruth Caplin Theatre opens its doors tonight
The lobby of the new Ruth Caplin Theatre at UVA was still filled with hard hats yesterday as workers rushed to ready the state-of-the-art theater for its big debut performance of You Can’t Take it With You this evening. Tom Bloom, associate professor and chair of the UVA drama department, says that the unveiling will be both a “huge relief and […]
ARTS Pick: Joe Pug
In song, Joe Pug is a wizened storyteller, but the folk troubadour has just five years of a music career and two albums under his belt.
Album reviews: Pickwick, The Cave Singers, and Caitlin Rose
Brian Palmer reviews the most recent releases from Pickwick, The Cave Singers, and Caitlin Rose.
Long live the funk: Big Boi promises Springfest show will have it all
Former Outkast member turned solo artist, Big Boi says he loves playing the old hits, but ask him to reminisce about his days touring with Andre 3000, and he’s likely to give you the cold shoulder.
ARTS Pick: Water Liars
Some accidents seem like divine intervention, especially if they result in brilliance. When Justin Kinkel-Schuster got together with Andrew Bryant to make a casual recording (2011’s critically praised Phantom Limb), they tapped into a rare magic and Water Liars was formed. The second effort by the Missouri-based duo, Wyoming, carries on the crushingly poignant, bad ass folk-pop that put it on so many “best of” lists among indie rock tastemakers.
Two thumbs up: Reflections on film critic Roger Ebert’s time in Charlottesville
Roger Ebert was my first film critic —really, the first non-fiction writer of any kind whose work I devoured. My parents had Pauline Kael, but for my generation Ebert was the gateway drug to film study and appreciation, best sampled in his 1,000-page annual anthologies of reviews, which were an encyclopedic and insightful peek into […]