Greg Allen\’s musical vision is organic, and his work is testimony to the fact that when you stay with something long enough, your labors will produce fruit. Allen is the guiding force behind Songsharing, a loose-knit group of songwriters and musicians who are committed to performing free concerts in locales where you might not usually find live music.
Greg Allen\’s musical vision is organic, and his work is testimony to the fact that when you stay with something long enough, your labors will produce fruit. Allen is the guiding force behind Songsharing, a loose-knit group of songwriters and musicians who are committed to performing free concerts in locales where you might not usually find live music.
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etc. Forget about jogging, it’s waaay too hot. Exercise your funny bone instead while viewing Duck Soup, arguably the Marx Brothers’ comedic masterpiece. The political satire, set during the Depression, was the last film to feature all four brothers. Its cynical, slapstick take on the political and economic crises of the 1930s was controversial in […]
Little Miss Sunshine [theaters & times]R, 102 minutesOpens Friday, August 18, nationwide The “road picture” is, in many ways, the kiddie pool of the American filmmaking industry. Countless neophyte filmmakers have tested the waters of Hollywood with a cheap-and-easy road movie. The simple, anything-goes formula of a road picture makes it easy for just about […]
The Ruins By Scott SmithKnopf, 319 pages words It starts the same way every time. An interchangeable group of Young Americans, on a rowdy bacchanal in a Foreign Paradise, stumbles across Something They Shouldn’t. Ignoring all the obvious warnings, they Venture Where They Daren’t and end up unleashing a Supernatural Horror that proceeds to dispatch […]
“2006 Teen Choice Awards” Sunday 8pm, Fox As co-hosts, Jessica Simpson clings to the remaining shreds of her B-level career while comedian Dane Cook tries to convince us that he’s interesting enough for even that much fame. (He’s really not.) The show recognizes what teens think is cool. Which….isn’t that all MTV does anymore? Anyway, […]
World Trade CenterPG-13, 125 minutesOpens Wednesday, August 9,at Seminole Square Cinema 4 When Paul Greengrass’ 9/11-inspired film United 93 hit theaters earlier this year, many moviegoers asked the question, “Are we ready for this?” People wondered if, as a nation, we were ready to confront that tragic day head-on. Given the relatively positive response the […]
Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported on Live Nation\’s purchase of a majority stake in Coran Capshaw\’s $100 million fan/merch business Music Today, which Capshaw started six years ago and which operates out of a former factory in Crozet.
C-VILLE Weekly defines an exhibition space or gallery as a venue that displays art and is either nonprofit, donates space to artists or hosts regularly rotating exhibitions. Gallery listing is at editorial discretion. To have your show considered for inclusion, please provide the names of artists and shows, media used, contact information and the show’s […]
etc. Little Miss Sunshine, a Sundance Film Festival smash starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell and Alan Arkin, was produced by our very own Virginia Film Festival board member Ron Yerxa. To honor this, the VFF hosts a special screening of the film at the Regal Downtown Mall Cinema. Follow the fictional Hoover family from Albuquerque […]