ARTS Pick: Miss Julie
One midsummer’s eve, Julie, an upper class woman, and Jean, a valet at her father’s estate, struggle with misguided passion for each other and their own romanticized ideas of escape. […]
August is bustin’ out all over: Ash Lawn Opera brings Carousel to the Paramount
The first thing people always ask me is, ‘You’re an opera company, why are you doing a musical?’” said Michelle Krisel, General Director of Ash Lawn Opera, and the behind-the-scenes […]
Film review: The Wolverine is a comic book blast
Now that we’re six films into the X-Men series, it’s about time we got one that can stand on its own. It’s not that viewers should skip all the other […]
August First Fridays Guide
First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Listings are compiled in collaboration with Piedmont […]
ARTS Pick: Next to Normal
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal goes deep. Deeper, in fact, than many social constructs deem comfortable. The production’s dialogue allows the audience to reflect upon the turmoil […]
ARTS Pick: Eternal Summers
Roanoke rock trio Eternal Summers (left) joins Raleigh-based The Love Language, offering two distinct takes on pop-rock. While the Summers inject graceful melancholy with nervous energy and infectious ebullience, Love […]
ARTS Pick: DrFameus at the Main Street Annex
DrFameus is the solo electronic music project of multi-talented musician Allen Aucoin, whose main gig is playing drums for the Philadelphia-based festival favorites Disco Biscuits.
Bella Morte celebrates a long career of sincere goth
Charlottesville’s Bella Morte is one of the most successful contemporary goth bands in the world. But unless you can name any contemporary goth bands, there’s a good chance you don’t know this.
Will McCranie: A man and his guitar
Packing up and moving your entire livelihood from Georgia to New York City to seek a record deal could be considered a less than calculated career move. For alternative rock […]
C’Ville Art Blog: Paint and ceramic meditations at the Firefish Gallery
What is perception? Philosophers, psychologists, and ophthalmologists have studied this question for years, but none have studied as vividly or exhaustively as visual artists. Subtle nuances of memory, culture, and aspiration […]