LOVEFEST

It’s been a decade of artistic immersion and community collaboration at IX Art Park, and you’re invited to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary at LOVEFEST. As the home of The Looking Glass Immersive Art Museum and host of countless cultural festivals, workshops, farmer’s markets, and so much more, the IX Art Foundation is a true […]

PBR Challenger Series

Take your weekend by the horns with the pulse-pounding intensity and excitement of the PBR Challenger Series. This proving ground for individual professional bull riders provides a path to glory where up-and-comers and veterans alike vie for a spot in the Challenger Series Championship. Only a select few top-ranking riders from the Challenger Series earn […]

C-VILLE’s 35th anniversary issue

Sensing that Charlottesville deserved a smart, irreverent (and free!) news source on the eve of “the roaring ’90s,” as he calls it, C-VILLE’s co-owner, Bill Chapman, founded the city’s only alt-weekly, C-VILLE Review, in September of 1989. 

23rd Annual Youth Film Festival

Take a seat in front of the silver screen for Light House Studio’s 23rd Annual Youth Film Festival. Student films created over the last year through Light House’s workshops, community partnerships, and Summer Film Academy are highlighted at the YFF, giving attendees a chance to see the public debuts of projects before they screen in […]

Sharon Katz and The Peace Train

Bringing a blend of South African rhythms, Cuban influences, and soul jazz sounds, Sharon Katz and The Peace Train steam into C’ville carrying the message of love and unity. Growing up in apartheid South Africa, singer-songwriter and guitarist Katz witnessed the atrocities and divisiveness brought on by the country’s imposed racial barriers. She vowed to […]

Cedric Burnside

Pioneering bluesman R.L. Burnside liked to joke that Mississippi has four eyes and still can’t see. But as long as your hearing is good, you’ve likely heard some of the best American music come out of the Magnolia State. The Delta region is considered the birthplace of blues, and Grammy winner Cedric Burnside brings the […]

Women gather to set a new vision for Virginia’s wine industry

The journey to establish Virginia Women in Wine began five years ago with a series of informal get-togethers spearheaded by food and travel writer Nancy Bauer. The gatherings of women who shared a passion for Virginia’s wine industry but found themselves unfamiliar with, or disconnected from, one another grew, and Bauer remembers the moment when […]

Laura Jane Grace on survival in a world gone mad

Laura Jane Grace found punk rock in junior high school and never looked back. Music became her life and her outlet for processing depression, drug use, trouble with the law, and gender dysphoria. In 1997, Grace formed Against Me!, dropped out of high school, and DIY’d the band’s popularity over the next decade, reaching mainstream […]

Waxahatchee

In her indie-alt country band Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield’s lo-fi folk embraces her Alabama upbringing while breaking away from the quaint Waxahatchee Creek into the mainstream. Across six critically acclaimed albums, the group has won audiences over through Americana storytelling, explorations of sobriety, and lessons learned along the way. The new album, Tigers Blood, is another […]

Native Sun

New York-based Native Sun has a head-on initiative to champion social change, whether it’s activism around the climate crisis, national political unrest, or public health concerns. Colombian-American singer-songwriter Danny Gomez, along with Nico Espinosa (drums), Justin Barry (bass), and Jack Hiltabidle (lead guitar), play punk songs that explore the complexities of our time. The new […]