ARTS Pick: The Revivalists
Avoiding categorization has become a music biz cliché but The Revivalists’ refusal to commit to a single genre has played in the group’s favor. The New Orleans-based rock band has been […]
ARTS Pick: The Rimers of Eldritch
Venture into the American Midwest as UVA Drama presents The Rimers of Eldritch. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson peels back the motives behind a Missouri murder and assault, uncovering the […]
ARTS Pick: Twelfth Night
Feed your intellect and a person in need at Thieving Magpie’s good-WILL-cville production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Bard’s classic romantic comedy follows shipwrecked and separated twins Viola and Sebastian […]
Film review: The Farrellys are no better with age
Think of all the reasons you loved (or grew to love) the first Dumb and Dumber. It was goofy, gross, immature, idiotic and proud of it. Now take each of […]
Artistic bond: Father and daughter combine paintings for New City Arts
For many artists the act of creation is inspired not by the need for intellectual exercise or profound exploration as much as the need to scratch an itch that simply […]
ARTS Pick: Fall Experimental Dance Concert
This year’s Fall Experimental Dance Concert at UVA promises to leap the barre by integrating high tech with modern dance choreographed and performed by students and faculty from the University’s dance […]
Hold the phone: Post-feminism, surveillance and music at Old Cabell Hall
Have you seen the one where they catch the bad guy with an algorithm? This past August, an MIT research team announced a feat worthy of this sort of summer […]
ARTS Pick: Jessica Lea Mayfield
Acoustic folk singer Jessica Lea Mayfield digs in on her third album Make My Head Sing…, with ’90s-era distorted riffs lending a darker tone to her acclaimed, emotionally charged songwriting. […]
Used records: Progressive hip-hop patriarchs take on the old school
Performers are typically talkative. Sure, some are eccentric. And some have bouts of social awkwardness. But for the most part, people willing to get up on stage to entertain others […]
Album reviews: Over the Rhine, One Friend, Digital Daggers
Over the Rhine Blood Oranges in the Snow/Great Speckled Dog Records Folk duo Over the Rhine likes to do things differently. Blood Oranges in the Snow—the third holiday-themed release of […]