ARTS Pick: Southern Belles
The Southern Belles play testosterone-driven dirty country, honky-tonk, electric bluegrass, and psychedelic jams.
Creative SOUP: Arts leaders pair food with funding event
The creative crowd funding series Charlottesville SOUP, based on a model created by The Garage founder Kate Daughdrill, launches at The Bridge PAI.
ARTS Pick: Downton Abbey Season 3 Premiere
British steel The snarky, gossipy family and the conniving house staff you know and love are returning to T.V., and to the Paramount. The theater kicks off 2013 with a […]
ARTS Pick: Cody Purvis
Pick up tuner According to Cody Purvis, you can’t have too much of a good thing, except maybe “Too Much Truck.” The soulfully deep-voiced 18-year-old is country through and through, […]
ARTS Pick: abstractreal realabstract
Whiter shade of pale Abstract art is all about blurring boundaries, but pushing two seemingly oppositional modes toward one another takes skill. The pieces in the McGuffey Art Center’s “abstractreal […]
Film review: Django Unchained
Spaghetti southern: Django Unchained is a lawless, violent romp marked by stellar performances First, the cynical: One wonders whether making a movie that takes place in the pre-Civil War American South […]
Single vision: Steve Snider views the world through Golden Glasses
Steve Snider laughed when I asked him to list every Charlottesville band he’s played in over the years. “There’s like, more than a dozen,” he said. “I’m not totally sure […]
January’s First Friday Exhibits
First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues.
ARTS Pick: Wilford “88 Keys” Wilson
Local treasure Wilford “88 Keys” Wilson lights up the ivories between champagne toasts on NYE at Fellini’s.
ARTS Pick: Micah Goska
Micah Goska hosts the release party for his first solo record, The Blue Sessions.