PICK: Dan + Shay

Pop singles scene: Dan + Shay’s wide-eyed love songs and laid-back ballads have earned the country-pop duo multiple Grammys and billions of streams, not to mention collaborations with celebs like […]

PICK: Guy Clark Documentary

Texas tuned: Guy Clark (left) was known as a songwriter’s songwriter. The legendary musician-luthier’s songs have been covered by a range of Nashville heavies, from Jerry Jeff Walker and Ricky […]

PICK: Nettle Shirts Puppet Works

Puppet love: In Jane Yolen’s original fairy tale “Dawn-Strider,” a jealous giant named Night-Crawler captures the sun from the sky before learning an important lesson about love. Nettle Shirts Puppet […]

Galleries: September

September shows Atlas Coffee 2206 Fontaine Ave. A selection of photographs by Katie Hickson.  BozART Located in Hot Cakes, Barracks Road Shopping Center. “Local-scapes,” landscapes in oil by Julia Kindred.  […]

All good

When Orion Faruque was a child, and adults asked him, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” he remembers thinking, “I kinda just want to sit in […]

Cheers to the west

The foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains rise quickly as you drive west from Charlottesville. Snake into those hills a little bit and you’ll find Waynesboro and Staunton, where a […]

PICK: Freefall Music Festival

Falling for it: Just like local alt-weeklies, local alt-radio stations are fans of the well-crafted pun. Which is why WTJU’s Freefall Music Festival is exactly what it sounds like: concerts […]

PICK: Craig Karges

Totally mental: Mentalist and illusionist Craig Karges opens PVCC’s live performance season with a challenge: If you can prove that volunteer audience members are actually coached ahead of time, and […]

PICK: Brent Cobb

Southern goodness: Brent Cobb found fame in Nashville, but his heart remained in his home state of Georgia. Now that he’s based in the Peach State again, he’s taking a […]