Sound choices
By Greg Walker Lord Nelson Transmission, Self released If Tom Petty, with his tight-gripped, loose-lipped optimism, sang about bank robberies and car crashes, drug busts and broken relationships, it would […]
All this and more
Co-directors Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All At Once is a relentlessly entertaining, hilarious parody of the nonstop kinetics and overused “multiverse” concepts of recent comic book and […]
Pick: The Children
In a fix: Do we owe future generations a better world than we’re leaving them? The Children, Live Arts’ latest production, explores this real-world question through the lens of three […]
Pick: Sharon Van Etten
There must be a clone: Sharon Van Etten does it all. The singer-songwriter found time to write her fifth studio album, Remind Me Tomorrow, while she was studying psychology, pregnant, […]
Pick: Lucille Stout Smith
History of learning: Lucille Stout Smith uncovers local history in her new book, Unforgettable: Jackson P. Burley High School, 1951–1967. In a segregated Virginia, the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle […]
Seeing the divine
“A few months before she passed, my mom told me she’d had a dream that she was supposed to have a show called ‘Turn on the Light!’ It would be […]
A part to play
The Charlottesville Players Guild will perform its 2022-23 season entirely in the round, with the stage completely surrounded by audience members who are not considered observers, but rather part of […]
Pick: It Shoulda Been You
I OBJECT!: Bridezillas, groomzillas, there’s nothing like good ol’ fashioned wedding drama to anchor a comedy plot. Get your fix at Four County Player’s It Shoulda Been You, a musical […]
Pick: Chocolate Chowdown
Sweet tooth: A sweet evening awaits at PVCC’s Annual Student Exhibition and Eighth Annual Chocolate Chowdown. Sample from a lavish spread of decadent chocolate treats as you peruse a diverse […]
Pick: Shovels & Rope
Domino effect: After months of nonstop touring, Americana folk act Shovels & Rope was ready to slow things down on its latest album, Manticore. Then COVID-19 stalled the music industry, […]