On Repeat: Bittersweet songs for a season of change
By Emma Herold | November 1, 2023These five autumnal tracks with notes of folk, country and melancholy will help listeners traverse the retrospective and confusing emotions of the fall season.
These five autumnal tracks with notes of folk, country and melancholy will help listeners traverse the retrospective and confusing emotions of the fall season.
The series of projections around Grounds featured work from local artist Jeff Dobrow in partnering with The AV Company, a local audio-visual equipment service. These projects were not originally intended for Halloween but more so to provide a bit of artistic pandemic fun in place of canceled student activities.
Ultimately, “May December” is a film about moral ambiguity. “Insecure people are dangerous,” Gracie says to Elizabeth, but even more dangerous is the inability to distinguish past from present, innocence from guilt, right from wrong. According to Haynes, at least, it’s all just shades of gray.
Equal parts poignant and amusing, this film is a labor of love that illustrates Oglala Lakota reservation life with thoughtfulness, telling a greater story about the complexities of the human condition.
“The Holdovers” fully commits to a 1970s pastiche and successfully pulls it off.
“All of Us Strangers” — adapted from the 1987 novel “Strangers” by Taichi Yamada — follows Adam, a writer plagued by grief and loneliness, played by Andrew Scott.
U.Va. alumna and singer-songewriter talks about new music and recent accomplishments since moving to New York City
On a warm Autumn evening on Friday, excited viewers poured into the Paramount Theatre to view one of the Virginia Film Festival’s most anticipated films — “Origin,” written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
To Lawrence, the Like the Waters We Rise posters and other creative responses to disasters are not just a “call to action.” They are a “creative way to reimagine” the future, a way to decompress our anxieties and solastalgia while looking to a better tomorrow.
Ben Sloan — a writer and teacher currently living in Charlottesville — published a new collection of poems entitled “Then On Out Into a Cloudless Sky.”
Below is a selection of movies — ranging from family friendly to spine-chilling — pulled from the most highly acclaimed stop-motions horror films of all time.
Chinchilla Café is not exactly a café, but they do have chinchillas — and so much more.
Each talented member of the cast and production team clearly cares for this show. Spectrum Theatre’s “Fun Home” is touching and feels timely.
Hesler — who currently teaches at WriterHouse in Charlottesville — also writes longer novels, one of which will debut in November. She said that she considers both shorter and longer form writing important parts of her writing identity.
In the Processing Abstraction exhibit, expansive abstract paintings assert themselves from wall to wall.
Black Women Stitch, a local award-winning sewing group, stands as a testament to the resilience, creativity, and cultural richness of Black women in the realm of textiles.
A good cry about life and getting older might be in order to recover from these last few weeks of exhausting assignments. Here are four songs about getting older to get those waterworks flowing after a few grueling weeks of midterms.
In addition to SWAP’s customary clothing exchange, students also had the ability to buy second-hand clothing and accessories directly from vendors, as well as socialize with one another in a more intimate environment.
Now in its fourth year of business, the market welcomes artisans to share their creations, providing a home for local businesses, as well as a place of gathering for students and community members.
In the theater, and in the crowds on screen, there were parents and children, middle school and college students, Swifties and non-Swifties and everything in between, all of whom were held, rapt, for the entirety of the three hours. So call it what you want, but certainly don’t call it boring.