C-VILLE’s Steve Delgado took to the Downtown Mall to ask folks, "What do you want from Santa this year?" Revolutionary War re-enactor Joel Hendry, from Roanoke, portrays a soldier with many hats for the Jefferson Thanksgiving celebration. The two-day event, part of the Downtown for the Holidays’ weekend festival, began Friday, November 21 […]
C-VILLE’s Steve Delgado took to the Downtown Mall to ask folks, "What do you want from Santa this year?" Revolutionary War re-enactor Joel Hendry, from Roanoke, portrays a soldier with many hats for the Jefferson Thanksgiving celebration. The two-day event, part of the Downtown for the Holidays’ weekend festival, began Friday, November 21 […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
What if, one time, when Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney made one of those “Let’s put on a show!” movies, the show they put on was a sex tape? O.K., now imagine, instead of Garland and Rooney in a glossy, golden-age MGM musical, it’s Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen in one of writer-director Kevin Smith’s […]
“Paris Hilton’s My New BFF” Tuesday 10pm, MTV I tried to resist, I swear I did. I find Paris Hilton as loathsome as the next basically functioning human being. But whilst flipping through the channels I came across a bunch of trashy young women pecking and scratching at one another, and I was hooked. The […]
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Bolt (PG, 96 minutes) In Disney’s 48th animated feature, a Hollywood dog who plays […]
Brendan Fitzgerald also writes Feedback, c-ville.com’s music blog, and Curtain Calls, C-VILLE’s weekly arts and music column.
What red-blooded, fun-loving, popcorn-munching movie loyalist wouldn’t want Quantum of Solace to be good? After all, it reunites us with Daniel Craig’s bracing James Bond, this time (Bond’s 22nd on screen) with the great French actor Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) as his evil opponent. Sounds promising, right? And how about that […]
“Top Chef” Wednesday 10pm, Bravo A mere five months after it wrapped the mostly unsatisfying fourth season (although winner Stephanie is totally awesome), Bravo returns with the fifth installment of its top-rated food competition. This time the cheftestants will throw down in New York, so expect some of the Big Apple’s culinary staples to get […]
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (PG, 85 minutes) A pampered pooch finds herself lost in Mexico and far from home. Disney provides the funding and Drew Barrymore, Andy Garcia, George Lopez and Salma Hayek provide the voices. Playing at Regal Seminole Square 4 Body of Lies (R, 128 minutes) Dude-tastic director Ridley Scott’s dude-heavy drama, based on […]