Sand pail list: Five movies to watch every summer
You have two options this summer: You can take Hollywood’s nostalgia bait and buy a ticket to one of its myriad sequels, prequels, reboots and spiritual successors to your favorite […]
ARTS Pick: I Love a Piano
A celebration of the music and lyrics of Irving Berlin, The Heritage Theatre Festival’s production of I Love a Piano follows a piano as it moves in and out of […]
Intro to Lockn’: Local band battle will feed talent straight to Virginia’s biggest festival stage
Lockn’ is still an interminable two months away. If you’re as impatient as we are for the third installment of the music festival, to be held this year from September […]
ARTS Pick: Ike Reilly
With the unlikely style of Billy Joel meets Johnny Cash, Ike Reilly, a former grave digger from Illinois, tells timeless tales of love, lust, drugs and drinking through reckless tunes […]
Film lampoon: Live Arts aims to ‘a muse’ with Xanadu
Most of us are born with a seedling of art in our hearts—the desire to create our dreams on paper, in space or on the stage. But we’re taught early […]
ARTS Pick: My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket hails from Kentucky, but don’t call the band a country act. Frontman Jim James recently told Rolling Stone, “Modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race.” […]
Film review: A new twist on Sherlock Holmes doesn’t add up
Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes is a perfectly serviceable adaptation of a latter-day Sherlock novel not written by Arthur Conan Doyle, starring a character whose episodic escapades are better suited for […]
ARTS Pick: Music for the Mountains
Neighbors, musicians and foodies from across the Commonwealth will gather at Music for the Mountains to raise funds in an effort to push back against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and […]
ARTS Pick: Wiz Khalifa
Rising from steely Pittsburgh to the top of the music charts with “Black and Yellow,” Wiz Khalifa has earned the nicknames king, wisdom and successor. Influenced by the ’80s era […]
Guest work: McGuffey’s celebrates its emerging artists program
What if there was a farm league for artists? This is one of the central questions raised by a new program for emerging artists at the McGuffey Art Center. In […]