ARTS Pick: Hiroya Tsukamoto
In a small town in the heart of Japan, 13-year-old Hiroya Tsukamoto discovered the banjo and taught himself to play bluegrass tunes for his dad, who was a fan of […]
Bully frontwoman talks audio engineering, screaming and Losing
There’s something Alicia Bognanno of the Nashville-based grunge-pop act Bully wants to get off her chest. Her latest album, Losing, released on October 20 via Sub Pop, is not a […]
Movie review: Murder on the Orient Express arrives in style
While attempting a brief vacation from being the world’s greatest detective, Inspector Hercule Poirot has been reading the hell out of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. With every […]
Bolivar the dinosaur hides out in New York
Imagine you live in Manhattan on West 78th Street and your neighbor is a dinosaur. The problem is, no one believes you. This is the premise for Bolivar, Sean Rubin’s […]
A Christmas Story sings out at Four County Players
Whether you fell in love with the leg lamp, the pink bunny suit or the double-dog-dare to lick a frozen flagpole, you can’t help but wait in excited anticipation for […]
Susan Munson is one of the area’s most prolific musicians
When Susan Munson was a kid growing up in Charlottesville, any time she had something to tell somebody, she’d write them a poem. She’d give it to them too, either […]
Virginia Film Festival At-A-Glance
Festival At-A-Glance sponsored by Wells Fargo Tickets At-A-Glance Where Can I Get Tickets During the Four Days of the Festival? UVA Arts Box Office at 109 Culbreth Road Nov 9: […]
Spotlight on the Virginia Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year from November 9-12, chose a topic at the forefront of many people’s minds—both locally and nationally—with its Race in […]
War stories: Through the looking glass with Vietnam documentarian Lynn Novick
To tell the full story of Vietnam along all of its harrowing dimensions, the producers of an epic new film series about the war required 10 years of research, more […]
VFF films with Virginia ties
VFF films with Virginia ties The Ruination of Lovell Coleman Director Ross McDermott met Lovell Coleman in Charlottesville 10 years ago when he saw the then octogenarian putting a new […]