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, […]
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