Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town Baby Mama (PG-13, 96 minutes) Tina Fey (“Saturday Night Live”) goes for big screen fame, starring as a workaholic single businesswoman who decides it’s time to have it all and spawn a kid. Sadly, her uterus isn’t in on the plan, and she’s forced to hire a surrogate mother in the […]

First Friday, June 6, 2008 [With Photo Gallery]

Bikram Yoga Charlottesville “The 26 Postures,” interpretations of yoga positions in various media by local artists, from 6pm.BozArt Gallery “Glimpses,” recent landscapes by Mercedes Lopez, 6-9pm. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative “Standard Operating Procedure,” photos by Nubar Alexanian, 6-9pm. “Face of a Woman” by Joel-Peter Witkin at Second Street Gallery C’ville Arts “Branching Out,” glass art […]

Crack that whip!

You can’t keep a good man down. So, a good 10 years after his last outing, Indiana Jones himself is out of mothballs and back in search of high adventure. With the Hollywood triumvirate of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford back on board, viewers can rest relatively assured of some serious summer movie […]

Everything old is new again

“Million Dollar Password”Sunday 8pm, CBS Regis Philbin is back, people! And he’s about to show Howie Mandel how a real man hosts a game show. Lest we forget, Reeg caught lightning in a bottle back in 1999 with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” (The answer: apparently, every middle-aged, middle-class Midwesterner.) Can he do so […]

Coy intelligence

The final words that Theodore Estes, son of a Nelson County sheriff, heard before the bullets from Nelson County judge William Loving’s gun sent him spiraling out of this life on April 22, 1907, were an indictment, conviction and sentence, packed with gunpowder and sent through his 26-year-old body. “So you were out buggy riding […]

Movies playing in town

Movies playing in town21 (PG-13, 123 minutes) Inspired by the book Bringing Down the House, this fact-based (let’s not go all the way to “true”) story introduces us to hotshot young M.I.T. student Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess, Across the Universe). Our boy Ben’s a math wizard, but he’s too poor to afford tuition. Enter evil […]

Yeux’re outta here!

In 2000, Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren curated a site-specific exhibit for the UVA Art Museum, titled “Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium.” The show featured works by many artists that Warren and her gallery represent currently, from Megan Marlatt and UVA associate art professor William Bennett to Rosemarie Fiore and Lydia […]

Golden oldies

In the world of documentary filmmaking, it’s rare to come across a story containing more than mere topical analysis tinged with one or more of the following: hip music, radical activism, gratuitously artistic shots, dry humor and/or cool graphics. Absorbing human drama tends to be more elusive and reserved for works of fiction, while the […]