My Father’s House
words Memoirs—such a hot genre in the current book biz that a certain James Frey was willing to pass off fiction as fact in his notorious A Million Little Pieces—tend […]
Spider-Man 3
game After three mega-successful Spider-films, it’s safe to say that even non-comics-geeks grasp the whole “with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility” thing. It appears, however, that Treyarch, the team responsible for creating the Spider-Man 3 […]
The Book of Liz
stage Satire, it’s said, is a pretty mocking of life. And satire is exactly the word to describe The Book of Liz, a play penned by the famed brother-sister duo […]
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight”
comics In 2003, the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series was canceled after its lackluster seventh season. Now creator Joss Whedon has returned to his cult occult property by telling […]
Tune in
There is a cacophony of music in Charlottesville: At any given moment during any given day,
a DJ is setting a needle into the vinyl grooves of a scratched Marvin Gaye record or a band is
Pump down the volume
“You can play almost anything —somebody’s going to like it.” This kernel of equal parts wit and wisdom comes courtesy of one of Charlottesville’s premier working musicians, guitarist Vernon Fischer. […]
“Throw your arms around me”
As a three-year resident of Grady Avenue, I used to live right up the street from New Covenant Pentecostal Church and would drive past the narrow white structure, hearing the […]
Keyed up
UVA’s Old Cabell Hall brings to mind piano recitals, string quartet performances, and the occasional comedian or lecturer, but the historic building also houses one of the University’s newest and […]
Working for a song
Sue Holden is a lousy musician. So instead of standing in the spotlight, she’s backstage and frontstage and in the wings and behind the curtains running security and supervising the […]
Bring in the noise
There are no white-hot breaths of feedback, no gallumphing bass lines, bleeding from Jarrod Hood’s small wooden house in Belmont where local heavy metal band Horsefang practices a couple nights […]