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, […]
Come on, feel The Feelies Their big glasses, casual wear and New Jersey suburban pale faces didn’t conform to the usual images of rock saviors who strutted and spat their way across the postpunk stages of 1980, but the Feelies nonetheless had as great an influence on the future of alternative rock. Their sotte voce […]
What is the Virginia Film Festival? It is your plan for the weekend, resolved. Can you be more specific? Yes. The Virginia Film Festival is an annual motion-picture exhibition event, taking place again this Thursday through Sunday, November 5-8, in multiple venues with more than 80 movies of varying size, shape, disposition and value to […]
What’s the one thing that both comedians and the Virginia Film Festival fear? A tough audience! Ba-zing!
During high school, my friends and I misspent more than a few Saturday nights driving aimlessly around the suburbs searching for fast food and listening to chill-out mainstays like Funki Porcin
Ace, I’m leaf-peeping along 64W, and I’m presented with a difficult choice. I can turn left, and head south along the Blue Ridge Parkway for free. So why is it that, if I turn right, I have to shell out $15 to enter the Shenandoah National Park, for basically the same scenery? What exactly am […]
Well, here we sit, just a week away from Election Day, and things are certainly not looking up for the good ol’ boy from Bath, Creigh Deeds.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 20 years of covering Charlottesville, it’s this: Folks here are political animals, but they’re not always electoral animals. Consider that seven years ago winning a measly 11 percent—11 bleedin’ percent!—of city voters was enough to land a new guy on City Council. We’re hoping that the pollsters are […]
Scandinavian legend has it that in April of 1991, the lead singer of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, who went by the name Dead, committed suicide in a remote cabin owned by the band outside Oslo.
If Creigh Deeds becomes Virginia’s next governor, it will be in spite of himself. If, in a shocking turn of events, Virginia voters elect Creigh Deeds the Commonwealth’s next governor next week, Deeds will have a lot of thanking to do. In the waning weeks of the campaign, the job has increasingly fallen to others […]