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The best albums of 2014
By Noah Zeidman | December 4, 2014Across genres, it has been a pretty great year in music.
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Across genres, it has been a pretty great year in music.
This has been an excellent year for film, offering everything from gripping blockbusters to innovative personal films.
It has become common practice among music artists to repackage their albums in an effort to simultaneously boost single sales and dish out new content by slightly renaming the album or slapping “Deluxe” onto the title.
David Guetta cemented his status as one of the world’s premiere DJs with the release of his last album, “Nothing But The Beat.” His latest studio album, “Listen,” is another fantastic addition to the artist’s electronic dance music catalogue, featuring collaborations from Nicki Minaj, MAGIC!, Emeli Sande, The Script, Sia, John Legend, Bebe Rexha and more.
“Horrible Bosses 2” will hit theaters Wednesday — and, unsurprisingly, the film follows the unfortunate trend of sequels which desperately attempt to rehash the tired plot of the original.
It’s been a year since Eminem’s last album, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” was released. It’s been 10 years, however, since his last well-received album, “Encore,” dropped, and eight years since his label, Shady Records, issued a collaborative release, titled “Eminem Presents: The Re-Up.”
With her game-changing attitude toward the music industry, Beyoncé has been on top for more than 10 years.
With movie franchises trying to make as many films possible to capitalize on profits, the artistic integrity of making a single novel made into multiple movies is certainly questionable.
Jessica Lea Mayfield doesn’t care what you think. With her bright pink hair and furry green guitar strap, she is an artist who knows her sound and has charted her own course through her music.
In 2005, the new HBO comedy “The Comeback” premiered. While the show never quite took off with the audience, critics raved about this brilliant series co-created by Lisa Kudrow (who was, at the time, fresh off of “Friends”) and Michael Patrick King.
This weekend the University's Dance Program showcased the Fall Experimental Dance Concert in the Culbreth Theatre.
The antics of the Real Housewives escalate with each Bravo season — and Beverly Hills is certainly no exception.
On Tuesday, Nov. 18, students packed the upper room of Trinity Irish Pub: not for the usual night of shenanigans, but to attend this year’s TEDxUVA Student Speaker Competition.
The Paramount Theater collaborated with the National Theater Live to bring the Broadway performance “Of Mice and Men” to Charlottesville this past Sunday. Since John Steinbeck published the novel in 1937, several adaptations of “Of Mice and Men” have been made for the stage and screen.
The University’s International Education Week 2014 presented their capstone event, “Chitrageet,” Friday in a lively evening filled with Indian paintings, classical music and traditional dishes.
Inspired by Paul Klee’s statement of “a line is a dot that went for a walk,” “What Is A Line?,” the Fralin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, is scheduled to open next year, and will continue the museum’s long tradition of multicultural pieces — this time by examining a particular artistic technique.
The Virginia Players presented "Baby with the Bath Water" at Helms Theater Tuesday evening in the second show in their Reading Series. The production — part of an effort by the Drama Department's student liaison group to bring lesser-known plays to life through rehearsed readings — brought actors to the stage, dressed in street clothes and lined in a row.
English-Irish boy band One Direction has 99 problems and at least 12 of them are girls — that is, according to their new album “Four,” anyway.
When a murder scandal rattles a small mining town in 1960s rural Missouri, the lives of the seemingly ordinary residents of the sleepy community begin to unravel.
Charlottesville is known for its vibrant music scene, but its visual arts scene is just as strong.
