This week in T.V.
“Touch” Wednesday 9pm, Fox Kiefer Sutherland returns to television with this new drama-mystery from the mind of Tim Kring. You might recognize that name as the creator of NBC’s “Heroes,” […]
Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Adapted from the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close evokes the recent literary wave of self–conscious precocity probably begun with Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. […]
Songwriter Michael Coleman hears drums in the guitar
Ten minutes north of the Downtown Mall the land changes all at once as the suburbs fade into pastureland. Longhorn cattle chewed the grass stubbornly, looking like they had just […]
Who/What/Wear
I ran into MORGAN, an art student at Virginia Commonwealth University, on the Downtown Mall wearing an oversized coat by Sessun paired with a dress she’d borrowed from a friend. […]
Local girl gets Bachelor boot, aims for law career
There are fairy tale endings like you see in the movies, where the girl gets the guy and trots off into the sunset with a smile on her face. Then, […]
Carolina Chocolate Drops drop by the Jefferson
In 2011, the Carolina Chocolate Drops—a traditional string band out of North Carolina – won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for their first full-length effort, titled Genuine Negro […]
Live Arts hosts ‘world’s fastest’ fest
"I knew I could stay up,” said Denise Stewart, a playwright who’ll be featured in 24/7: The World’s Fastest Theater Festival. “I have insomnia, so I just didn’t take my […]
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; R, 127 minutes; Regal Downtown Mall 6
His name is George Smiley, and he works for the Circus. It’s less fun than it sounds. The time is the early 1970s, the place is London, and the Circus […]
TV Previews: “American Idol,” “Unsupervised,” “On Freddie Roach”
“American Idol” Wednesday-Thursday 8pm, Fox Last year’s 10th season taught us several lessons. The most important is that, yes, the show can exist just fine without Simon Cowell, as the […]
For American Shakespeare Center actors, life imitates art
It took John Harrell a few moments of head-scratching to recall the parts he played at the Blackfriars Playhouse last fall, possibly because he’s taken on over 100 roles in […]