Live Arts’ new season takes off with ‘Airline Highway’
The new season at Live Arts begins with an ending. Sort of. Airline Highway opens at a funeral for Miss Ruby, a former burlesque performer and club owner who hasn’t […]
October Exhibitions
Friday 10/3 through Friday 11/21 Second Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions exploring the passage of time and its effects on aesthetics and materiality. In the Main Gallery, “Time and […]
VAFF 38 kicks it off with Boss biopic
Virginia Film Festival Executive Director Jody Kielbasa and Artistic Director Ilya Tovbis appeared on the Paramount stage on Tuesday evening to announce the 38th Annual Virginia Film Festival. The 2025 […]
‘Gullah Meditations’ at University Baptist Church 9/27
In a performance that combines elements of opera, gospel, jazz, dance, and theater, Victory Hall Opera presents Gullah Meditations—the first significant new arrangements of “unknown” Gullah Geechee spirituals in 100 […]
Ramona & the Holy Smokes at The Southern Café & Music Hall 9/27
Honky-tonk outfit Ramona & the Holy Smokes light it up with a record-release show for a self-produced, self-titled debut album. Ramona Martinez’s emotionally evocative vocals are backed by a scorching-hot […]
Bob Mould at The Southern Café & Music Hall 9/26
According to the internet, Bob Mould performed at the Marquee in New York City on March 8, 1991, touring his second solo album, Black Sheets of Rain. As an 18-year-old, […]
Black Violin at The Paramount Theater 9/30
For a classical strings-meets-hip-hop beats duo, there’s something very unexpected about what Black Violin has become: easy to listen to. That’s both good and bad. Violist/vocalist Wil Baptiste and violinist […]
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory at The Jefferson Theater 9/25
When you’re ambitious, you do what you can to chisel out your chunk of fame. So what has Sharon Van Etten been doing? In following a singer-songwriter migration pattern that’s […]
Todd Marcus Quartet at The Front Porch 9/27
The Charlottesville Jazz Society presents an evening of bold, straight-ahead jazz with lyrical intensity from the Todd Marcus Quartet. Based in Baltimore—where he exerts considerable influence in the local music […]
Heed the call of foam-covered battle
For those of us who grew up dueling with long cardboard tubes from the center of wrapping paper rolls, our days of swordplay needn’t be over. (My nephew dubbed those […]