It goes without saying that a quilting judge must have a sharp eye for details, but there’s more to it than that. Sure, “things like originality, consistency in the length of quilting stitches, square corners, levelness in hanging, and matching points (joints of fabric) play into awards,” says Linda Boone, chair of the Charlottesville Area […]
It goes without saying that a quilting judge must have a sharp eye for details, but there’s more to it than that. Sure, “things like originality, consistency in the length of quilting stitches, square corners, levelness in hanging, and matching points (joints of fabric) play into awards,” says Linda Boone, chair of the Charlottesville Area […]
In the paint For Kris Bowmaster, a painting is more than a single moment, captured on canvas. It’s a place to go. An event. A happening. Over 25 years ago, while on a Peace Corps tour in Lesotho during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Bowmaster found painting. “The scope of the suffering was so […]
I yam what I yam: He’s strong to the finich, ’cause he eats his spinach, he’s Popeye the Sailor Man. Most of us know the spinach-eating, stovepipe-forearmed sailor from the comic strips or cartoons, but there’s also the 1980 live-action musical comedy that helped launchthe career of its star (Robin Williams), almost killed the career […]
Think fast: If you (like us here at C-VILLE) have been religiously solving the daily Wordle, you’ll enjoy flexing your vocab and trivia skills at Wordplay, Charlottesville’s original live game show. Wordplay is a team-based trivia competition that tests your knowledge of words, vocabulary, pop culture, history, literature, and more. The evening features refreshments and […]
Songs for the taking: “Anything that I wouldn’t ever want to tell anyone—I just put it on the record,” says Canadian indie-folk musician Leif Vollebekk about his latest album, New Ways. The follow-up to Twin Solitude, his breakthrough Polaris Music Prize finalist and Juno-nominated record, the album reads like a film, with narrative lyrics on […]
For the record: Having grown up as an openly gay man in the South, musician and activist Joe Troop is familiar with controversy. The bluegrass player has been threatened and chased off the stage, but that’s never stopped him from engaging in social activism through song. While on a year-long break from touring with his […]
Gather ‘round: A cowboy, a UVA professor, and an astronaut walk into a bar…or something like that. You never know who you’ll meet at The Moth, a live storytelling showcase that brings people from all walks of life together. The New York-based production’s events, workshops, podcast, and “The Moth Radio Hour” take you on an […]
Return to rock: Americana quintet Railroad Earth has been performing bluegrass with rock ‘n’ roll spirit for over 20 years. The band’s upcoming album, All For The Song, marks both the end of an era and the start of a new chapter—it’s the group’s first full-length studio record since losing founding member Andy Goessling to […]
If Terry Gilliam remade “The Jetsons,” it might go something like Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Bigbug. This French science-fiction comedy takes a generally dark movie sub-genre—robot servants revolting against their human masters—and transforms it into an outwardly sunny, pastel-colored farce. The results are a hilarious, fascinating satire that’s seemingly light, but overflows with pointed observations about unchecked […]
By Matt Dhillon In February, Saul Kaplan marked both his 93rd birthday and the release of a new book of artwork. The self-published Sketches: Faces of Life & Love highlights what is perhaps the artist’s most discreet and most intimate medium, his drawings. Having retired to an apartment in Martha Jefferson House, the ceramics and […]