After a long, grueling summer, “The Good Wife” returned to air Sept. 21 ? coming off the critically acclaimed fifth season, the sixth season premiere of this series had a lot to live up to.
Last Tuesday, Kendrick Lamar dropped “i”. In this age of Internet music, the release of a new single is a fairly unremarkable event, but Lamar’s “i” is easily one of the most hotly anticipated drops of the year.
On Tuesday, the University was pleased to welcome two world-renowned guests in librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schönberg, who collaborated to write a number of renowned musicals for Broadway and London’s West End.
In a moving and poignant exhibit, Russell Lord ? curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art ? brings a different artistic angle to the Fralin Museum of Art as he curates “Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument,” an exhibit open until Dec.
Fresh off a year in jail, Chris Brown returns to the world of pop music with latest album “X.” After two years without a full-length album and a string of run-ins with the law, Brown had a lot to prove when returning to the studio.
DC’s Verizon Center was packed floor to ceiling for The Black Keys last Thursday, every fan engaged in the sound of the band.
Vacationer ? the dreamy, island-minded indie brainchild of Kenny Vasoli and group Body Language ? has been steadily climbing the ladder to success after the release of their 2012 full-length “Gone” and this summer’s sunny “Relief.” Creating a hybrid genre they brand as “nu-hula,” the band brought their peace of mind to The Southern to dazzle up a dreary Monday.
The slight fall breeze and last few rays of summer sunshine marked the mood Friday evening at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion, as students and community members filled the seats and laid out blankets on the grass for a night of feel-good music from The Head and the Heart.
alt-J has done it again ? another of album overriding any low expectations set for this small band from Leeds.
As University students and community members headed downtown to the Tom Tom Founders Festival event Friday night, the streets buzzed with chatter as the fall block party amassed a couple hundred participants to celebrate art and innovation in the Charlottesville community.From families to young adults, students to dogs, a large cross-section of interested parties came out to the McGuffey Art Center, blocking off 2nd Street for the celebration.
Pop-rock can be tricky. When done right, it synthesizes elements of both pop and rock into a catchy hybrid sound, with both an aggressive edge of rock and crowd-pleasing hooks.
Most of the best episodes of “South Park” meet two key criteria: they satirize at least two completely unrelated things, and they focus on Eric Cartman.This formula works because “South Park” is at its funniest when at its most absurd and most biting.
Jason Burke has become a central figure in Charlottesville’s singer-songwriter folk music scene.
The poster child for retro quirk, actress, and She & Him frontwoman, Zooey Deschanel, returned last Tuesday for a fourth season as the star of Fox’s “New Girl.” The show chronicles the daily life of Jess, a middle school educator and knitting enthusiast, in her L.A.
Back for a successful 18th year, the Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival arrived with two simple goals: to spread the word about the benefits of plant-based diets and to teach the community ways to reconcile a modern lifestyle with the health of our planet.
Friday afternoons are a sort of limbo time for University students ? it's too early to go out, the motivation to do work was lost somewhere closer to Tuesday and the call of Netflix is stronger than ever.Boylan Heights on the Corner may have found a solution to Friday fatigue: reggae guitarist and vocalist Greg Ward.
Just one block from the Downtown Mall, by the train tracks off South Street West, lies a small gem: Bon Café, a colorful hole-in-the-wall that functions as café, bar, art marketplace and small concert venue.Bon's website says the venue aims to promote “the creativity of the human spirit” within the Charlottesville community ? and from its weekly art marketplace, drum workshops and classes on meditation and yoga, it succeeds in doing just that.
A thrilling novel-to-movie adaptation reminiscent of literary staples “Lord of the Flies” and “Peter Pan,” “The Maze Runner” is more than just another installment in the mediocre young adult dystopian franchise.
Fox’s latest comedy-drama, “Red Band Society,” lumps every known cliché together, adds a smattering of humor and a pinch of originality for a show which, though not terrible, is hardly entertaining.“Red Band Society” premiered last Wednesday and, like the “Dead Poets Society” (1989), follows a group of young, carefree teenagers as they romp through their quirky lives.
Two boys sitting in a beat-up sedan, drinking out of liquor bottles as marijuana smoke hangs suspended in the air around them.
