Todd Murphy’s ‘Bird Room’ is dreamy, ambitious, and ambiguous
Todd Murphy’s “Bird Room” at Les Yeux du Monde highlights a fascination with birds, but it also draws attention to a love of beauty, a vast knowledge of challenging cerebral […]
Virginia on the set
As much as we like to name drop the tent- pole titles and celebrity guests that give the annual Virginia Film Festival and Charlottesville a Hollywood glow each fall, we […]
Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country pushes into new territory
Guitar slinger Daniel Donato cut his teeth in the Nashville honky-tonk scene. The freewheeling electric picker started busking in the city’s Lower Broadway district at age 14, and not long […]
Garth Greenwell continues to explore well-being in Small Rain
“What a strange thing a body is, I thought, how eerie to be filled with blood and covered with hair, to be a machine any part of which might fail,” […]
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers at The Jefferson 10/16
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers bring a setlist full of old favorites and new hits on the Indigo Park Tour. The Grammy Award-winning musician and Williamsburg, Virginia, native has had […]
The Misanthrope at The Paramount 10/15
In a cultural moment when many of us may be a bit disillusioned with modern society, Paramount On Screen presents National Theatre Live’s production of The Misanthrope. The plot revolves […]
Mary Motley Kalergis: A Fifty-Year Retrospective at Phaeton Gallery through 11/1
Covering five decades of creative excellence, Mary Motley Kalergis: A Fifty-Year Retrospective celebrates the local author, photographer, and interviewer whose work focuses on the intimate and universal experiences of human […]
Changes in the economy, jobs, and education lure new blood to skilled trades like HVAC, electrical, construction, automotive and plumbing
Alex Funk’s job comes with a big bag of tricks. “Wire nuts, locknut wrenches, electrician-specific things, like wire strippers and cutting pliers,” says Funk, burrowing through her backpack of tools. […]
Fred Armisen at The Jefferson 10/7
If you’ve followed his career, you understand how difficult it is to say which of Fred Armisen’s characters qualifies as his signature role. Between his tenure on “Saturday Night Live” […]
In Duston Spear’s Bird Girl, a reclusive painter is thrust into the spotlight
Duston Spear couldn’t wait to get out of Richmond, and left the day after she graduated high school. Her mother always told her she could be a writer. Instead, Spear […]