“Art” and art, Star Children and Sarah at Rapunzel’s, Campout East and more
What’s going on this weekend?
New music: Eli Cook
The deep-voiced blues wunderkind takes on Skip James, Nick Drake on a new record
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Gypsies in the wood
Between songs at a concert last Friday, Old Calf frontman Ned Oldham said that he’s been working nursery rhymes into lyrics since the mid-’90s. It started when he was studying for an MFA in fiction at UVA in the 1990s, and the poet Charles Wright used Mother Goose to illustrate lessons in rhyme and meter. [...]
The Batesville Store is “closed until further notice”
Inspectors say the historic building must meet restaurant guidelines. "Ironically, our success has proven to be our undoing," owners say.
Invisible Hand at the Southern (plus a new video), Old Calf (twice) and LOOK3 (again)
What’s going on this weekend
Arcade Fire played in town last night. What does it all mean!?
Discussed: Why they came, October’s LCD Soundsystem concert, a sense of belonging, paradigm shift, how to sell records, why The Strokes stink now and post-9/11 music
Shows recently announced: Neko Case, Anthony Bourdain and two nights of Avetts
Plus, what’s inside this week’s paper, and VQR is hiring
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What to see at LOOK3
If you’ve been on the Downtown Mall recently, you probably already know that the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph returns from its off year this week, with a string of events across town that celebrate that which is worth 1,000 words: the photograph. The festival’s broad theme, “Home,” is fitting for the husband-wife duo Kathy [...]
Win tickets to Campout East, headlined by Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven and Sons of Bill
The Crozet fest later this month is a standout in this year’s circuit
The ghost of Charlottesville musics past
UVA’s alumni magazine and a local history book from the "Images of America" series highlight some interesting moments in local music history
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Just a band. With a choir. And horns.
When I caught up with Parachute’s frontman and songwriter Will Anderson last year, he had just moved from Charlottesville to Nashville, and his band had wrapped up sessions in Los Angeles with the producer John Fields, known for his work with pop artists like the Goo Goo Dolls and Colbie Caillat. Anderson said then that [...]
LOOK3 approacheth; TREES are in the trees
A nice teaser in the days leading up to the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph
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Hunt and Wimer race to document an exploding sport
Ever since Dave Matthews struck it big, locals have been wondering what’s our Next Big Thing. While that discussion has often veered towards bands, what stands perhaps the best chance of keeping Charlottesville on the national cultural map is something else entirely: scantily clad women arm wrestling for charity. Check out the latest CLAW bout [...]
The benefits of being press-shy
Jack Fisk reveals the "reclusive" director Terence Malick’s favorite movie. Hint: Ben Stiller stars as a male model
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Donor gives Glenmore house to the Paramount Theater
The property is listed at $799,000, and its sale will take a nice chunk out of the remaining $1.5 million in the theater’s mortgage payments
Filmmakers launch fund drive for CLAW movie
Lady arm wrestling has been spreading like wildfire. Billy Hunt and Brian Wimer want to document it
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Dzian!'s last show will be "The Love Boat"-themed
When saying the name of the band Dzian!, smile and click your thumbs in the air. Dzian! Go ahead, do it—it feels good. Dzian!! Now savor it. It may be your last chance to do so while the band has a show on the local music calendar (at The Bridge, May 21), creating a void [...]
Taking a spin with Astronomers’ new album, Size Matters
The glossy, ambitious local rockers have a new disc
What’s going on this weekend?
Mason Jennings, Red Rattles, Black Girls (that’s a band) and Picasso’s last stand
Rita Dove reads for the Obamas at the White House
With the rapper Common and poet Billy Collins, it was more of a circus than you’d think. Plus, read some of Obama’s poetry from college
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When family memories are folk art
Home movies have long been the stuff of baby’s first steps, the kid’s piano recital, and trips to Disneyland. But for academics, all the other stuff captured by amateur filmmakers—where the baby’s walking, who’s sitting where at the recital, and who’s in costume at Disneyland—is emerging as a valuable part of the historical record. And [...]
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The many places of Mariana Bell
On Push, the once-local songwriter Mariana Bell gives vocal pop a shot of adrenaline, upping the ante on a radio-ready formula with refreshing formal complexity and intense execution. On the title track—perfect single fodder, by the way—drums that rush the song through its first chorus lurch to half-time on the second. The arrangement gives the [...]
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Signs of a crossing
The Welcome Wagon’s front man Vito Aiuto wore a black wool cap rolled up to expose his ears, framing a scraggly beard, a look somewhere between hipster and monk. The snap buttons on his rose-embroidered cowboy shirt rose to his neck. An acoustic guitar wound tightly around his chest, he faced his wife, Monique, The [...]