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 […]

Finding fabulous

Swan Song R, 105 minutesViolet Crown Cinema Debating answers to thought experiments is only frustrating when you need an answer: If a tree falls in the forest, do you feel […]

Chicken and lobster

Lobs to love There’s still time to get your claws on some claws at Shadwell’s Lobstravaganza. Through the end of August, Shadwell’s is serving citrusy lobster ceviche, decadent lobbie sliders, […]

PICK: Elle Cosimano

Mystery machine: Finish up your summer reading list with a bang during an evening with mystery author Elle Cosimano. She’s got a stack of young-adult thrillers to her name, and […]