Sailing along in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE, we note this week one of the very few instances when we lagged in our cheerleading for a certain local musician whose name rhymes with Mave Datthews. We figured we better get this one out of our system well in advance of the big shows coming up at JPJ (check next week for a bounty of DMB excitement from days gone by). Also, this week, just to fan the Puritan flames, we remind you, after last week’s visit to UVA by Heff’s people, that Playboy is not the only publication to stir things up by flashing some skin on the cover. Proud we were that week in 2007 when we asked the burning question, Why doesn’t Charlottesville have a strip club, only to find many readers took that as a declaration that Charlottesville needs a strip club. Needs? Maybe. Deserves? Definitely. Keep those cards and letters coming, folks. All year long we will continue to look back at the accumulated pluck and provocations that will power this free and freethinking institution into the next 20 years.
Getting Covered
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Fill in the blank, people. Those were the instructions. Ever wonder why we’re missing a stadium-seating movie theater in Charlottesville? Or a Lord & Taylor? Or, for that matter, a gentlemen’s club? We researched those questions in the June 26, 2007 issue. We illustrated our queries explicitly (but not all that explicitly, come on) on the cover. We got a buttload, er, boatload of criticism from some quarters. Good times. Good, good times.
Paging Through the Archives
“It looked for a while like the sheen was wearing off the [sic] The Dave Matthews Band as attendance at the Tuesday night concerts at Trax nightclub was slipping from the 350 range to about 250. But things perked up a bit on Friday, April 24 when the band played to a nearly packed house—about 600 people. Among them was Shannon Worrell, of the now-defunct Paris Match, who climbed onstage for one number.
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“Those who came to see the 6-man C-ville band heard such standby numbers as ‘Satellite’ and ‘Two-Step’ and the rest of the rollicking band’s repertoire. Some have speculated that the attendance drop might have come from a lack of new material. ‘We’re working on new songs, but we don’t have anything yet,’ Dave Matthews told Arts Watch recently while walking down Main Street. Maybe the grizzled bandleader, pictured here, is seeking inspiration for new songs.”
“Arts Watch,” April 29, 1992
