Staff picks for fall break
By Arts & Entertainment Staff | September 29, 2016Twice a semester, Arts and Entertainment staffers pick the songs they cannot stop listening to.
Twice a semester, Arts and Entertainment staffers pick the songs they cannot stop listening to.
There is no denying that Idina Menzel is a dynamic and multifaceted performer. Ask anyone from the six-year-old who has been belting out “Frozen” tunes for the past two years to the avid theater lover who saw Menzel perform on Broadway in “Wicked” and “Rent.”
Unobtrusively set at the end of the Downtown Mall, six photographs comprise an exhibit titled “Landscapes of Slavery and Segregation.”
On Tuesday at the Jefferson Theater, Virginia Film Festival director Jody Kielbasa announced the lineup for the 29th annual event, which will take place in Charlottesville Nov. 3 to 6.
In an age when the casual music fan often thinks of hip-hop culture as merely comprised of violence, misogyny and drugs, Jenkins is a shining example of the contrary.
Classic Western films had a sort of inherent charm which allowed them to be as popular as they were back in their Golden Age in the early 20th century.
When creator Jill Soloway accepted the the best comedy award at the Golden Globes for season one of “Transparent,” she expressed hope the show could “teach the world something about authenticity and truth and love.” Indeed, those three virtues form the pillars of this show.
Beach Slang has never been a band to pull punches. On their sophomore full-length album, “A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings,” these Philly-based punk-rockers tackle the heady experience of adolescence with all the blistering, bare-knuckled zeal the album title suggests.
“MacGyver” (2016) isn’t really “MacGyver” (1985). The MacGyver of 1985 wore jeans and tennis shoes, never used a gun and occasionally stole a kiss from the damsel in distress.
Jam packed with nearly every cliché in the genre, “The Hollars” fails to distinguish itself from its peers.
“Scream Queens” is back with a bizarre premise, swapping last year’s college campus for a haunted hospital in which none of the employees seem qualified.
Any fan of Devendra Banhart knows that conventional rules of music don’t apply to his work — even the flexible, ever-changing rules of indie rock.
There is an audience for a show like “This is Us.” They’re the type who cry during Nicholas Sparks movies. Honestly, they’re probably buying premiere tickets in advance for every single Nicholas Sparks movie.
Within the first 10 seconds of “The Good Place,” main character Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) reads this message: “Welcome! Everything is fine.” It’s a message that rings incredibly true to the quality of the show itself.
Mac Miller has truly come a long way. After bursting onto the hip-hop scene in 2011, the rapper has since distanced himself from his debut album, opting instead for deeper introspection and more experimentation.
In 1989, the Iranian government shocked the world by issuing a fatwa ordering the execution of British-Indian author Salman Rushdie.
It was a perfect summer night in Downtown Charlottesville when Rayland Baxter took the stage at the Sprint Pavilion to open for The Lumineers.
Enter “Wild World,” the newest release from the group, which picks up right where “Bad Blood” left things three years ago.
Alternative rock band Grouplove, famous for its 2011 hit “Tongue Tied,” recently dropped the album “Big Mess,” a compilation of 11 tracks about love, loss and pursuing the true meaning of life.
Since their last recording, the group has traded their humble beginnings in Seattle for a Warner Bros.