Casa de Chihuahua, with Mr. Baby and Black Twig

music For those with eclectic tastes in a cosmopolitan hamlet like Charlottesville, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how great Southern music can be, especially when played live. Three solid acts at the Outback Lodge served as a healthy reminder. Black Twig played first and, despite sharing three members with Blacksburg-based noise-and-folk acts Pelt and […]

High anxiety

Ace: What would you say is the highest point in Charlottesville?—Rhett E. Tuclime Rhett: Ace’s knee-jerk reaction to your question was to say that Lee Park is probably the highest point in Charlottesville (heh heh). But, Ace realized that, in all seriousness, this wasn’t what you meant, and therefore brushed up on some terms to […]

Correction from October 2 issue

Due to a data entry error, last week’s print edition gave the wrong date for Sonia & Disappear Fear’s show at Gravity Lounge. It was October 6 not October 7, as stated. Apologies to the band and fans who might have missed the show.

Bob Log III, with The 40 Boys and The Corndawg

music Take Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band and pack them into one man’s body. Zip that body up in a blue spandex jumpsuit adorned with mirrored sequins. Slap on a glitter-covered, half-motorcycle, half-space helmet with a telephone receiver glued to the front. Feed the resulting Frankenstein some scotch and amphetamines. This is Bob Log […]

Ubu Roi

stage You know what I miss? A good old-fashioned art riot. When Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi premiered in Paris in 1896, the audience shouted down the production due to its foul language and strict disregard for theatrical niceties, and it closed after a single performance. A century should have tamed the wild response to […]

Follow the guns

It’s just after 2am. As the temperature drops into the 30s, four men creep around the corner to the front door of Mountain River Outdoors Inc off Route 29N. They’re here to get what waits inside: black-market gold. Guns.

One-stop shopping

Virginia is the leading supplier of out-of-state-guns for New York City. While you can only buy one gun a month in Virginia, good luck getting your hands on one gun a year in New York City. To buy a gun in New York City, you must: – Have for a handgun license ($340)     – […]