ARTS Pick: “Some Other Places We Missed”
Window to the soul In a project that mixes art with outreach to the incarcerated, Virginia-based artist Mark Strandquist asked prisoners “If you had a window in your cell, what […]
Arts Pick: Goodnight Moonshine
When sparks fly When Molly Venter of Red Molly met Eben Pariser from the quintet Roosevelt Dime, they had no intention of forming Goodnight Moonshine. After playing at each other’s […]
ARTS Pick: SHOTS & WORKS
Photo finish As one of the final events of the LOOK3 festival, SHOTS & WORKS is also one of its most anticipated. A two-night open air screening of projects from […]
Film review: This is the End
This is the End is so devoid of good ideas, smarts or laughs that it’s hard to understand just what its purpose is. I can only conclude it’s to get the […]
LOOK3 Pick: Susan Meiselas
The stories of factory workers are always relevant, but they’ve been prominent in the public consciousness recently with April’s horrific factory collapse in India, one of the deadliest industrial accidents […]
Tiger Eyes: Judy Blume visits Vinegar Hill Theatre for screening of her first film
I first got the run down on how babies are made from Kim Blodgett in whispers on the kickball field when I was seven. I thought my friend must be […]
ARTS Pick: The Vaccines
Big shots London-based, indie rockers The Vaccines blew up the music scene in the UK, and the hype is making its way stateside where the quartet has been added to festival line-ups […]
Easy listening: Corsair makes heavy metal for the masses
Heavy metal is a tree with many branches, dozens of sub-genres and cross-bred styles. But Charlottesville’s Corsair has older influences than most of its peers, reaching back past the aggressive […]
First trumpet: John D’earth is ready to release a new album, but the music is only part of the story
When I met him at his cramped studio behind C’ville Coffee, the first thing John D’earth did was offer to teach me the trumpet. He insisted, in fact. We shook […]
Telling the story: Photographer Gregory Crewdson manufactures perfection
An old sedan turns right onto an empty main street. Its tires pull smooth black strokes through a cover of newly fallen snow. The street is quiet, the sky filled […]