Walk into Stacy’s Music Shop in Rio Hill Shopping Center and you will see a shop full of guitars and drums, and hear the tapping of an aspiring drummer getting a lesson in the back. But you will also see many photos on the wall of a Charlottesville era long past. Shep Stacy’s grandfather, Carl […]
Walk into Stacy’s Music Shop in Rio Hill Shopping Center and you will see a shop full of guitars and drums, and hear the tapping of an aspiring drummer getting a lesson in the back. But you will also see many photos on the wall of a Charlottesville era long past. Shep Stacy’s grandfather, Carl […]
Abundant Life Gallery “Fireworks,” watercolors by Leslie Allyn, 6-9pm. Art Upstairs “In Search of Home,” oil paintings by Randy Sights Baskerville, 6-9pm. Batteau Custom Framing Work by Karina Goldstein, Ken M. Nagakui and Joanne Coleman, 5:30-9pm. Ben Around Tattoos and Offbeat Gallery “Death Becomes You,” works by various artists, 6-10pm.BozArt Gallery “Fandango,” paintings, ceramics, and […]
“America’s Next Top Model”Wednesday 8pm, CW We’re a quarter of the way into Cycle 8 and some definitive opinions on the girls have formed. The bad news: Despite some pretty faces, this is the least modelesque season yet—nearly half the girls can’t take a picture for shit. The good news: This could be the bitchiest […]
300 (R, 117 minutes) Much like his previous work, Sin City, Frank Miller’s stylish comic book 300 comes to life on the big screen. This faithful (nearly panel-for-panel) adaptation arrives courtesy of up-and-comer Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead). This violent, highly visual adventure tale tells the story of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 […]
The members of the Free Bridge Quintet are well known by jazz fans around town. The band is made up of the much-esteemed players from the McIntire Department of Music’s jazz quintet-in-residence. But if you have never been out to hear one of their fine performances at Cabell Hall, you can catch the Quintet this […]
“The Whitest Kids U Know” Tuesday 11pm, Fuse Man, do we need a good sketch comedy troupe. Long gone are the heydays of Monty Python or Kids in the Hall or Broken Lizard or even Upright Citizens Brigade. Our country needs existentialism disguised as stupidity. Our country needs young men dressed up in sexually inappropriate […]
You got to give it to Jon Thompson. Dreaming Isabelle’s lead guitarist and singer goes after what he wants. He was a walk-on from Wise High School to the UVA football team and got to play linebacker alongside Darryl Blackstock and Aaron Brooks.
300 (R, 117 minutes) Much like his previous work, Sin City, Frank Miller’s stylish comic book 300 comes to life on the big screen. This faithful (nearly panel-for-panel) adaptation arrives courtesy of up-and-comer Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead). This violent, highly visual adventure tale tells the story of the battle of Thermopylae in 480 […]
The Lilith Fair of literature, the Coachella of covers, the Woodstock of words (too much?) is upon our city and, with hundreds of thousands of pages published among them, the 300 or so guests on hand for the event have a lot of knowledge to drop for bookworms and brainiacs of all ages. The problem […]