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Creative sparks

“This is just a glorious space,” says the artist, his eyes drinking it all in. Many people would probably balk at...

Jack of all trades

Known around Hollywood as a hands-on art director, Jack Fisk is not a...

Hipster 1.0

Ann Gordon recognized that it was pretty sketchy downtown after hours. Her children later came to call it “wino...

Forgotten Founder

Preamble When I got the assignment a couple of months ago to write about Jefferson and his protégé William Short and...

Everything old is new again

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Walking through the University grounds toward a meeting with...

The mysterious attraction of b

Probably all of us have felt it at one point or another. For some, it comes in the form of an obsession with...

Paint the town

“To me, this is the heart of Charlottesville right here.” I am standing at the intersection of Monticello Avenue and...

Barry Levinson’s comedic darkn

It would be a very short list of film festival guests who have a stronger set of accomplishments and accolades than...

A teller of truths

“I think that this film gains its emotional integrity from the fact that everybody is speaking the truth. It was very...

Rita Dove talks about a new film on her life and work

Poetry might be the least ostentatious of the arts. It’s a private affair conducted between a writer and a blank...