Musicals are often brushed off as fluffy escapism, and yet the most-enduring ones—from Puccini’s popular operas to Sondheim’s Into The Woods—are about celebrating the frivolity and freedom of youth. That […]
Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren participates in the statewide initiative “Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts” by inviting 17 women into this month’s exhibition.
The great Virginia motivational author Napoleon Hill famously said, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Dear Ace: I’ve been on a cinema kick since crashing The Paramount Theater’s Oscar Night Party last weekend, and I’m jonesing to get back to the celluloid buffet. Sadly, the […]
After the hearing in Richmond, after activists and academics and law enforcement members testified to change Virginia’s marijuana laws, and after a General Assembly subcommittee struck down two bills that […]
“I am disappointed because I thought it should have been down further,” said Belmont resident Shirley Shotwell
On most days, the Quality Community Council (QCC), a grassroots coalition located in a small space on West Main Street, attacks tangible problems facing Charlottesville’s most troubled neighborhoods—voter education, affordable […]
As Albemarle resident Ellen Climo told the county’s Board of Supervisors last week during the first public hearing on the county’s proposed budget: “I don’t think there’s anyone here tonight […]
Following Friday night’s performance by STREB, I walked to the edge of the stage where the eight dancers were perched and one by one squeezed their calves and biceps. With […]
Interest in a “simpler time” is nothing new. But revived awareness of the primitive Southern mountaineer has touched a new generation of musicians and fashionistas that look to their legacy […]