Emily Traylor wasn’t ready to go directly to a four-year university. She wanted to ease into college life. “I don’t know if I could have handled UVA going straight out of high school,” she says. She weighed the options and then Traylor decided to give Piedmont Virginia Community College a try. A growing number […]
Yellow is the color of sorority. It’s also a three-sided hue. Red, blue and black are quadratic. I shall explain. Bottle of red? Not quite. Maggie Small is held aloft by Jesse Bechard, David Neal, Thomas Ragland and Fernando Sabino in Richmond Ballet’s premier performance of “Lines Squared” by choreographer Jessica Lang. Last week, […]
Kids these days sure do like their metatheater. It’s no surprise, then, that PVCC chose two modern classics of the genre—Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and Christopher Durang’s The Actor’s Nightmare, as a back-to-back crash course in Absurdism. You’ll never find a heartbreaking production of The Bald Soprano, a projected spoof of nonsensical domestic small […]
As expected, Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds got creamed yesterday by Republican Bob McDonnell, losing by about 18 points.
I never thought I’d have to choose between cinema and the stage, but the Virginia Film Festival is throwing its big closing night bash at X-Lounge on the same night that Live Arts is hosting its Gala & AfterGlow party. What’s up with that, Ace? And which one will you be attending?—Nicky Lodian You might […]
This year’s Virginia Film Festival, “Funny Business,” will not inaugurate a new era of Virginia Film Festivals wherein funny things—and celebrities—happen. (Onetime local Steven Soderbergh popped in 16 years ago, for Cripes sake!) Things have always tended to get a little funny when Tinseltown’s A- through C-listers come to town. As we reported 10 years […]
More than 40 people took the microphone at the October 29 public hearing for the proposed design of the Rte. 250 Bypass Interchange at McIntire Park.
For local jail inmates, going through an eight-week Re-entry program before being released can make a big difference in whether they wind up back in jail. C-VILLE reported in September on the New Beginnings Transitional Re-entry program, whose efficacy is confirmed in a newly released study, conducted by UVA’s Ann Loper and Kathryn Scheffel Fraser. […]
The future of the U.S. 29 corridor has always been a point of contention among business owners, developers and those who wish to protect rural land and prevent the expansion of the growth areas. The County Planning Commission meeting on October 27 was no different. At stake: the Places29 Master Plan. The commission was tasked […]
Is a photograph a straightforward document of reality? Hardly anyone thinks so anymore. In the art photography realm, it’s been nearly a century since artists like Alfred Steiglitz and Paul Strand—now firmly in the canon—began playing with the medium’s relationship to representation and truth. Students of the medium are well-accustomed to thinking about how fluid, […]