Film review: Playing for Keeps
Playing for Keeps is not the worst movie of 2012. In fact, it’s not even in the bottom 10. (It may be in the bottom 11.) And in life’s grand scheme, it’s innocuous.
Live Music 2012: An industry-eye view of Charlottesville’s music scene
To many, Charlottesville is still best-known as the birthplace of the Dave Matthews Band, and with good reason: It would be a very different town without the group’s legacy. But our city has always hosted a wide range of musicians, from could-be stars to hometown oddities to local living legends and an impressive roster of […]
Six reasons to see DMB this weekend
It’s been more than two decades since Dave Matthews Band emerged from Charlottesville and forever altered the pop-rock landscape with rootsy jams highlighted by the juxtaposition of fiddle and sax. While small gigs at Trax and frat parties were the launch pad, the band belongs to the rest of the world now—with 37 million albums […]
ARTS Pick: Sarah Siskind
Singer/songwriter Sarah Siskind has made a subtle, yet significant, impression on the music world in recent years.
ARTS Pick: The Santaland Diaries
The Santaland Diaries is based on National Public Radio funnyman David Sedaris’ story of the same name.
ARTS Pick: A Chorus Line
An exploration of colorful personalities thrown into the crockpot of a Broadway audition, A Chorus Line remains a towering figure in the rich canon of musical classics.
ARTS Pick: Carl Anderson
Charlottesville native, Carl Anderson packs an acoustic guitar and an emotional wallop on his debut album, 2011’s Wolftown.
Film review: Killing Them Softly
Director Andrew Dominik returns with Brad Pitt in tow after the debacle of their leaden-paced, underwritten, overproduced, and preposterously long The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Ash Lawn Opera’s Amahl and the Night Visitors builds community
Where Ash Lawn Opera’s summer season showcases imported artists delivering world class opera to Charlottesville, the production of Amahl opens up the magic of opera to a broader base of performers from the surrounding community and to an audience that may be absent over the summer.
ARTS Pick: The Mayfields
Growing up in a bluegrass family in Ohio, brother and sister act The Mayfields got their start in the family band One Way Rider.