Charlottesville’s Boxed Lunch performed its first show as a band at Holly’s Diner in 2019. A few years and an EP later, the group returns to the diner for a late-night set. The band, which includes Justin Storer, Joel Streeter, Emily Gardiner, and Zack Beamer, combines melodic songwriting, killer harmonies, and skilled musical chops for […]
Charlottesville’s Boxed Lunch performed its first show as a band at Holly’s Diner in 2019. A few years and an EP later, the group returns to the diner for a late-night set. The band, which includes Justin Storer, Joel Streeter, Emily Gardiner, and Zack Beamer, combines melodic songwriting, killer harmonies, and skilled musical chops for […]
When Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live brings its Glow Party event to the John Paul Jones arena on March 25 and 26, the newest face in the cab will be Taylor Holman. Holman, driving the Demo Derby truck on the tour, grew up around monster trucks. But she only climbed behind the wheel about eight […]
Rob Derhak thinks of Charlottesville fondly. The bassist, vocalist, and founding member of the band moe. recalls playing here “back in the old days,” when there was “that old bar behind the railroad tracks.” Trax? “Yeah, I think that was it,” he says, but it’s like he still doesn’t quite believe it all happened. Derhak’s […]
A classical masterpiece is updated with stunning modernity in Orpheus and Erica: A Deaf Opera. The culmination of a years-long collaboration between Victory Hall Opera and a team of deaf theater practitioners, Orpheus and Erica sees a young couple battling illness and fertility tempt fate by using modern medicine. The clever production weaves together Italian […]
Wind your way into the theater for a special Labyrinth movie party. Subtitles and animated cues make it easy to sing along and belt out your favorite lines (“You have no power over me!”) as Sarah, played by Jennifer Connelly, journeys through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered to rescue her baby brother from David Bowie […]
“The Gathering series is all about building community … it’s a call to look inwards and find what matters,” says Carbon Leaf frontman Barry Privett. The Richmond, Virginia, faves recently released the second volume in a four-part series that finds the long-running quintet returning to its acoustic roots. Gathering Vol. 2: The Hunting Ground is […]
boygenius The Record One of the most anticipated albums of 2023, thus far, surely must be boygenius’ The Record. The band, which formed in 2018, is composed of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers. Prior to meeting in 2016, Dacus and Baker had released a few EPs and albums, while Bridgers was relatively new […]
For months, the publicity buildup for Elizabeth Banks’ horror-comedy Cocaine Bear has convincingly sold it as deliriously entertaining nonsense. The movie’s hilarious, unrepentantly trashy trailer boldly spelled the plot out: A hulking black bear high on cocaine rampages through the Georgia hills. Sadly, the film is a missed opportunity that doesn’t deliver on its very […]
Last fall, Kalela Williams hit the ground running as the new director of the Virginia Center for the Book—she only had six months to organize the Virginia Festival of the Book, a process that usually takes well over a year. Williams came to the festival from Philadelphia, where she previously worked for Mighty Writers and […]
Share in the joy of music with the Oratorio Society of Virginia at Together in Song, a day-long choral workshop and concert. Begin by flexing your vocal chops in a three-hour workshop with conductor and music director Michael Slon. Participants rehearse works by American composers, including Aaron Copland’s “At the River” and Keith McCutchen’s arrangement […]