Playwright, novelist and essayist Pearl Cleage has been feted by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the staff of the Kennedy Center. Her universal appeal resides in her candid and poetic interpretations of gender, race, domestic violence and self-determination in America. Flyin’ West, Cleage’s 1992 play, explores these themes in the context of four African-American female […]
Playwright, novelist and essayist Pearl Cleage has been feted by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the staff of the Kennedy Center. Her universal appeal resides in her candid and poetic interpretations of gender, race, domestic violence and self-determination in America. Flyin’ West, Cleage’s 1992 play, explores these themes in the context of four African-American female […]
You know those two-for-one video sets available at Wal-Mart? Two movies for under $10? Usually, one of them seems really appealing and the other, well, you could maybe see yourself pulling it off the shelf on a rainy day… The “2 Worlds 2 Voices” might’ve been that way—except both Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson are […]
Due to a reporting error, in last week’s Restaurantarama [“Meal or mirage?”] Katherine Kroloff’s name is misspelled. We apologize to her for the error.
It’s a massacre in mascara…a grunting, groaning grip-up…a titanic tussle between ferocious femme fatales! To wrestle—excuse me, wrassle—with the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, the menacing collection of palm-smacking, bone-cracking beauties, you simply need to be a woman. But to win? Oh, my darlings, you must be ruthless. For exclusive video from filmmaker Brian Wimer’s upcoming […]
“Some of those early crowded CLAW days, you’d have to show up an hour early and get a space,” says local photographer Billy Hunt. “You could not move from that space for the entire event because it was just a big ol’ box of sweaty, crazy sardines. “Now it’s more comfortable, but I really do […]
You can’t have a frenzy nowadays without it being part media frenzy, and local filmmaker Brian Wimer has CLAW in his sights. At the November 7 release party for Billy Hunt’s A CLAW to Remember, Wimer will also sell copies of CLAW: Women Getting a Grip, the first of two short films documenting the local […]
About five years ago, while hosting a party for the Charlottesville 10-miler, Bill Hinckley got
Last March, somewhere around 2,000 churchgoers amassed in University Hall to show their support for the social justice advocacy group IMPACT
Only U.S. citizens can vote for the next American president. However, Charlottesville’s foreign guests and legal resident aliens have done what they could to influence the outcome before sitting on the sidelines on November 4. Tanya Omeltchenko and her husband received green cards after six years in the United States. She asks, “Why is it […]
Job title: Recreation program supervisor. Smith organizes, plans and implements everything from summer camp to sports leagues. Has worked for the county for: 15 years Resides in: Albemarle County Best of times: The middle school sports program’s track meet at Walton Middle School. “Getting 300 kids together and having it all happen by sunset —that’s […]