Last week, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities hosted the 20th annual Virginia Festival of the Book, a five-day event bringing together various speakers, writers and readers to promote books and literacy culture.
Daniel Mendelsohn, a University alumnus, author and essayist, visited the Harrison Institute last Thursday to promote his new book, “An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and as Epic,” in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book.
On Saturday, the University Bookstore hosted Deborah and Mark Parker, a husband and wife duo who recently published “Inferno Revealed.” Their book explores the epic poem “Inferno” by 14th century author Dante Alighieri. The authors discussed how their book interprets Dante’s original text and explicated the challenges and experience of writing “Inferno Revealed.”
Before the advent of Spotify playlists but after the do-it-yourself mixtape, iTunes rolled out the iMix feature.
These days, Facebook and Twitter get all the glory when it comes to social networking, but let’s be honest: Facebook is for pictures of family reunions and new babies, and Twitter is for celebrity gossip and Internet fights.
Spotify’s meteoric rise to prominence after its release in 2008 parallels that of Pandora after its launch in 2004. Both marked new and innovative ways to stream music online. Pandora was the pioneer of its kind — a method of listening to specific genres of music without having to pay for the service or for a subscription to a radio show. However, it lacks the ability to listen to an entire album or a particular song — two services in turn offered by Spotify.
Two weeks ago when the only shadow of productivity I’d managed in an afternoon was planning my Pinterest wedding to Chandler Bing, I knew I had a problem.
An underdog can be judged both by the measure of its quality and the level of adversity it faces in the recognition of this quality. With this in mind, no show currently on television is more of an underdog than FOX comedy “The Mindy Project.”
There is only one animated film I turn to when I feel the nostalgic desire to revisit my childhood. No, it’s not “The Lion King” or “Aladdin.” In fact, it’s not any Disney film.
Any time I catch drift that HBO is releasing a new show, it feels like Christmas morning all over again.
This story is a part of Arts & Entertainment’s “Underdog” series running this week, which highlights commonly underappreciated artists and artistic mediums.
On a sweltering day last July, Warped Tour’s Acoustic Basement Tent burst with the sweet indie-rock sounds of Allison Weiss.
Willard Smith, known to most as “Will” Smith, is the definition of a true Hollywood actor. Born in West Philadelphia, Smith was determined to make it big in the entertainment industry.
Earlier this month, a crowd of music lovers and friends gathered to watch Sophie Wohltjen give her Distinguished Major voice recital, in which she excellently performed an hour’s worth of music by Mozart, Hugo Wolf, and Irving Fine, among others.
New York-based band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart has released relatively boring music in recent years. I can only hope they revert to older, more exciting styles both in their upcoming album, “Days of Abandon” — which drops April 22 — and for their set at The Southern Saturday, March 8.
Sometimes the University feels like the set of “Pitch Perfect.” With A Capella Ball and sorority Big Sis week serenades, the talented voices in our midst just can’t be ignored. In helping to launch the start of the semester’s a cappella concert season, all-female a cappella group Hoos In Treble presented their spring concert, “HIT gets Fit,” last Saturday, displaying impressive voices and touching sentimentality.
The Institute of World Languages hosted the latest in a succession of movies for the 2014 IWL Film Series Feb.
Fans of William Fitzsimmons tend to be fans of the classic singer-songwriter stereotype. They keep coming back for soft melodies and intimate lyrics — two things Fitzsimmons delivers every time. It’s obvious he felt no need to change his recipe on his newest LP, “Lions.” If you came for more of the old, you came to the right place — though if you expected anything unique, I suggest looking elsewhere.
London, Paris and New York City are three of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. What do these cities have in common? The answer is art. Broadway, 5th Avenue, the West End, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées — these areas of creative expression astronomically enhance the cultural richness of the communities they serve.
The Regal Cinema on the Downtown Mall is set for a facelift in the fall of 2014, when the Violet Crown Charlottesville Cinema takes over its residence at the corner of 2nd and Main Street.
