Treats galore within this week’s paper. Pick up a copy or click around here. Jonathan Kiefer provides some insight into The Social Network, the movie about Facebook; I interview the folk singer Josh Ritter before his appearance at The Festy this weekend; and Peter Barnes takes a trip to "Serial Thrillers", at PVCC, which features works by Reba Peck, Sharon Shapiro and Randy Bill.
Also, check back here this evening for news on the Virginia Film Festival, which announces details today.
In the ongoing saga of Charlottesville’s record stores—Sidetracks recently moved, and Albemarle Square’s Plan 9 is still seeking a new location—some good news comes our way. Melody Supreme is now open, and it’s a bright and clean boutique with an expertly curated and relatively cheap selection of vinyl. And it’s just off the Downtown Mall, at 115 Fourth St. SE. (That’s not to be confused with 115 Fourth St. NE, where the Peking Chinese Restaurant remains—just walk across the mall.) Check out the details here.
If there’s a lesson to be learned from all this, it’s that when the music gods close one door they tend to open another. And so with the end of last month’s Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival comes the beginning The Tuesday Evening Concert Series, which begins tonight at Old Cabell Hall with a performance from the REBEL Baroque Ensemble. The New York-based group explores the commedia dell’arte tonight with the help of two harlequins.
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