Arts

Twin beauties Shanandoah Sassafrass and Gypsy Rose high-step onto the stage, twirling parasols as they lead the eight-legged cabaret act known as the Black
and Blue Burlesque. The already overstimulated audience is met with a full-on
burlesque—a titillating review that balances flash and crass on a floss-thin wire.

Now playing at Seminole Square Cinema 4
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Starr Hill presents a diverse and interesting night of music this week. On Thursday, June 1, The Beetnix have put together their first Underground and Independent Hip Hop Festival. “Under-ground by nature, independent by choice,” the crew want to expose Charlottesville to some of the best up-and-coming hip-hop acts on the East Coast.

Tim Clark and Nerve No Pain drummer Branden Shores put together This Means You three years ago because “the metal scene was dead.” Clark says the band “got really lucky” when they found vocalist Kim Dylla who could scream as well as sing, and their new lineup has been solid lately. The band is putting the final touches on a new Kevin Murphy-produced CD that was recorded in the Pro Tools studio located behind Stacy\’s Music. Metalheads can catch the band this Saturday night at the Outback Lodge. Unit F will reunite as openers.

Even 59 years later, Arthur Miller’s beloved hit All My Sons still draws a crowd. Seen through the peace-and-prosperity prism of post-war America, the play follows Joe Keller, a businessman with a shady past, as he tries to hold his crumbling clan together. It’s pre-Willy Loman domestic drama as only Miller could write it, with some potent anti-war symbolism thrown in for good measure.

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.

Abundant Life “Going with the Flow,” watercolors by Leslie Allyn, 5-9pm. Anderson and Strudwick “Folk Tails,” prints and paintings by Kate Hamel, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs “Postscript,” ceramics and paintings by Liliana Italiano, 6-9pm. Boutique Boutique “French Impressions,” works by Michele Regine, 5-9pm. BozArt Gallery “Faces, Places and Glazes,” paintings and tiles by Dutch artist Maya […]

Any song from the catalogue of the Godfather of Soul threatens to throw the stuffiest, stodgiest room into hysterics.

In the beginning, everybody is tense, or at least having problems with tense, as evidenced by the sign on the backstage door that says, “Employees only passed this point.”