“This show will wreck your evening, your whole life and your day. Every single episode is nothing but dismay,” Neil Patrick Harris sings in the opening credits of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” one of the latest original series from Netflix.
Donald Glover doesn’t have to make music anymore. An actor, musician and now the producer and star of “Atlanta,” one of 2016’s best reviewed shows, the tireless artistic genius had every reason to abandon his stage name Childish Gambino and the hip-hop career that came with it.
There are perhaps no two things in hip-hop more inextricably linked than Compton-based rapper YG and California. He once again proves this on his latest release, the eight-track mixtape, “Red Friday.”
Nine students spoke, and most of them shared a personal story of struggle or passion — each one more thought-provoking than the last.
“Moana,” the animated film starring a Polynesian heroine, is Disney’s best princess movie to date.
The term 'pop artist' is an oxymoron for self-proclaimed music aficionados around the world.
“If you ain’t here to party, take your ass back home,” Bruno Mars sings on “Chunky,” the second track of this week’s newly released “24K Magic.”
At one of last week’s shows, the musical lineup at the Ante Room in downtown Charlottesville was just plain strange.
“Harry Potter” fans have long awaited the arrival of J.K. Rowling’s latest foray into the wizarding world, and the author did not disappoint.
French electro-pop duo Justice has returned after a four year hiatus — five years, if you exclude their last album of live performances — with a new yet familiar sound on “Woman.”
If fans hoped the finale of “American Horror Story: Roanoke” would even out an unbalanced season, they were sorely mistaken.
Halfway through the set, at least three people in the front row were in tears. The sheer emotional impact of Mitski’s presence was a testament to her power — she’s the kind of performer who can invoke a sense of near-spiritual camaraderie within crowds.
“The Black Monologues” is a performance like no other. The actors’ and actresses’ performances were impeccable, blurring the line between reality and fiction with the depictions of stories told throughout the play.
“You have to hope when hope is senseless, and remember, remember, remember,” sang the cast of a show about a post-apocalyptic world.
When it comes to the artwork which responds to, re-packages and commodifies American cultures, few can make a greater case for owning 2016 than Donald Glover, who makes music under the alias Childish Gambino.
