Based on Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer follows physicist Robert Oppenheimer as he develops and detonates the first atomic bomb, […]
I didn’t see the ocean until I was in seventh grade, when my friend Sallie (future homecoming queen) invited me (congenital nerd) to Amelia Island with her family over spring […]
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library 2450 Old Ivy Rd. Permanent exhibitions include “Flowerdew Hundred: Unearthing Virginia’s History” and “Declaring Independence: Creating and Recreating America’s Document.” Botanical Fare 421 […]
Get your pies and pickles ready, it’s Albemarle County Fair time. Fairgoers are treated to a food truck lineup and live music from Baby Jo’s, Dark Hollow, Virginia Rain, and […]
Straight out of Scottsville, singer-songwriter Drew Pace is making his mark in country music. Pace rekindled his passion for music at age 13, after a devastating injury ended his football […]
Will Overman may be based in Nashville, but his music is still a dynamic and nostalgic ode to his time in central Virginia. The country Americana artist tackles personal and […]
The TinkerTar, a kids’ guitar trainer widely available for about a month now, is in many ways the synthesis of Charlottesville instrument and board-game maker Brian Calhoun’s eclectic career. Calhoun’s […]
Two strangers meet by letter and fall in love in award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise. Set during World War II—and inspired by Ludwig’s parents’ real-life courtship—Army captain […]
Poet Mary Brancaccio, prose writer Zak Salih, and poet Chapman Hood Frazier share their work at the Charlottesville Reading Series. Enjoy poems from Brancaccio’s Fierce Geometry, a lyrical search for […]
It’s been 30 years since Crash Test Dummies released its multi-Grammy nominated album God Shuffled His Feet, and the Canadian band shows no sign of applying the brakes. The rock […]