First Friday—April 3

Art Upstairs “A Moment Caught,” oil paintings by Sue Sencer, 5-8pm. BozArt Works by Kathy Kuhlmann, 5-9pm. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative “Bright Face (People You Should Know),” a collection of ecstatic portraits by one-time local Adriana Atema, 6-8pm C’ville Arts “Blooms,” floral and garden-themed works by local artists, 6-9pm. C’ville Coffee “Eight Years/Eight Days,” a […]

Capsule Reviews

12 Rounds (PG-13, 108 minutes) Professional wrestler Jon Cena proves himself the working man’s Jason Statham in this film about a New Orleans cop trying to put an Irish criminal back in the slammer. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Adventureland (R, 106 minutes) Read C-VILLE’s full review here. Opening Friday Confessions of a Shopaholic […]

March of the dingbats

Gentleman, how many times has this happened to you? After four long years in that prom-night-mishap-induced coma, you’re finally roused by your best pal via baseball bat to the face, only to discover that the devotedly vestal sweetheart with whom you used to tag-team elementary school abstinence seminars has bailed on you to become a […]

They sing, they dance, they act

“In the Motherhood” Thursday 8pm, ABC This new sitcom started its life as a series of webisodes starring Leah Remini, Chelsea Handler and Jenny McCarthy. Unfortunately, none of those women are attached to the network TV version, which instead features Megan Mullaly (“Will & Grace”), Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), and Jessica St. Clair (“Best […]

Take a tour of Starr Hill! [with video]

The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society hosts tours every Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday, March 22, Starr Hill neighborhood was the featured area. About 20 people attended the tour, led by Bess Kane. It began at the Jefferson School parking lot on Fourth Street, continued to Fifth and Sixth streets, down Main Street across the bridge […]

Capsule Reviews

12 Rounds (PG-13, 108 minutes) A vengeful, psycho ex-con (Aiden Gillen) kidnaps the fiancée (Ashley Scott) of a New Orleans cop (John Cena), then orchestrates a dozen spectacular physical challenges through which he might win her back. Renny Harlin of Die Hard 2 and The Long Kiss Goodnight directs. Opening Friday Confessions of a Shopaholic […]

Booking your schedule

Never one to judge a Festival of the Book by its cover, C-VILLE compiled a handy online guide to some of the trends and tastier events that ruffled our pages. For a complete list of events, venues and times, visit vabook.org. But for a quick jaunt through literary ecstasy, read on! Wednesday 3/18 If history […]

Close encounters of the cute kind

Two young aliens arrive in Las Vegas, and right away they’re on the run—from the American government and from a paramilitary assassin sent by the government of their homeland to kill them. By chance they rely for safe passage on a gruff but decent taxi driver, himself with an unhappy past, who reluctantly becomes their […]

Reduce, reuse, recycle

“Better Off Ted” Wednesday 8:30pm, ABC More “Dilbert” than “The Office,” “Better Off Ted” follows Ted Crisp (Jay Harrington), a nice-guy single dad who is the director of research and development for Veridian Dynamics, a morally questionable business that creates, say, gourds that double as WMDs, and isn’t above creating the world’s most soothing hemorrhoid […]