Anything cookin’ with Chris Daughtry these days? —Miss N. Idol Miss: First, Ace will assume you mean Daughtry, the band created by Fluvanna County product and ex-"American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry, and not simply Daughtry himself, though answering this question in reference to one would pretty much clear up the question of the whereabouts of […]
He's baaaack! After briefly flirting with a presidential run (before telling his shocked supporters "I want to have a real life," and mysteriously dropping out of the race), former Governor…
When the white-haired usher at the Paramount shines her flashlight on the ticket, she says, “The show tonight will start at 8:30pm, not 8pm.”
music With all the excitement surrounding the return of Bob Dylan to Charlottesville, it’s easy to forget that his foundation—straight-ahead folk music—has been largely banished to the shadows. New folk singer-songwriters, awash not in Dylan’s resplendent history, must scrape together bits of acclaim here and there. Lord, they might as well be poets or intellectual […]
music The eighth annual Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival began with a major bang on Sunday, September 9. Literally, a major bang, as the event opened with Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515. The 220-year-old piece’s melodies ricocheted back and forth between violas, violins and cello, filling Old Cabell Hall with the sweet sounds […]
Nathan Antonio Washington, the man arrested for two sexual assaults linked to the serial rapist, has been tied to another sexual attack. A DNA sample obtained from Washington matched DNA evidence found at the scene of the sexual assault that occurred in a Waynesboro motel in 1997, according to The Daily Progress. That assault was […]
The city police department is still looking for the person who shot three people in the early hours of September 9 while they sat in a car in the parking lot at 200 Water St. Zinele Brown, a 28-year-old Albemarle County resident; Jarret Jackson, a 20-year-old Charlottesville resident; and a 19-year-old male whose name hasn’t […]
William Cocke: “In a lot of ways it was a typical U-Hall show. The acoustics aren’t that good in there, the acoustics were never that great. “I’m probably the only one, but I liked ‘Joey.’ I’ve always liked that song. It’s about a mobster who gets whacked at a Clam Bar. It was off of […]
Given name Robert Allen Zimmerman Declan Patrick MacManus Born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota August 25, 1954, London, England Wives 2 3 First record Bob Dylan (1962 on Columbia) My Aim Is True (1977 on Columbia) Latest record Modern Times (2006 on Sony BMG) The River in Reverse (with Allen Toussaint; 2006 on Verve Forecast) […]