Another Tuesday, another C-VILLE: Inside this week’s paper, have a look at some of my picks for what to check out (mostly for free, though you’re encouraged to attend ticketed events) at the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. Exhibits are already posted at McGuffey, Second Street Gallery, Chroma and in a few surprising places. Pick up a copy of the paper and flip to the Galleries page for a guide to what’s around.
A few shows have been announced in recent days that I wasn’t able to individually mention. Now enough have crept up to justify a paragraph devoted to them. Here goes:
- The redheaded queen of alt-country Neko Case hits the Jefferson Theater on August 11. Tickets are $30 in advance and go on sale Friday.
- Here’s one of these situations where I’m shocked by how popular a band is: The Avett Brothers have been playing rootsy folk-rock for more than a decade, and now it appears that they have "made it." For it has been announced that the Avetts will play not one, but two—count ’em—nights in September at the Pavilion, on the Downtown Mall. Tickets are $35 and go on sale Friday.
- The Paramount also announced an exciting show, the confusingly punctuated, "Bourdain and Ripert—Two Chefs. Good and…Evil?" That’s Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. The unlikely allies will bring the restaurant business repartée they’ve shared on like "Top Chef" and at New York’s 92nd Street YMCA to the Paramount. Tickets for the October 30 event run from from $44.95-99.95.
In other news, listings have been popping up on the World Wide Web advertising open positions at the Virginia Quarterly Review, the acclaimed journal beset by tragedy when managing editor Kevin Morrissey committed suicide last August July. Editor Ted Genoways shared VQR’s masthead for the year’s issues, which have included a collaboration with the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, with a long list of contributing editors. Listings for the openings are here (login required for link).
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Updated at 12:47pm to reflect the correct month of Kevin Morrissey’s death.
