"Serendipity:" making fortunate discoveries by accident. The film of the same name plays up this aspect of Jonathan Trager's and Sara Thomas's relationship ... over and over again.
Yes, there's a new album from Elton John. John, who hasn't been in the spotlight since his duet with Eminem, is back with a full-length album, "Songs from the West Coast." The video to his first single, "I Want Love," which features Robert Downey Jr., is getting regular rotation on MTV - it's now John's first hit outside Disney soundtracks since his remake of "Candle In the Wind" four years ago.
"Mercy" is the first release of Abandon Jalopy, the solo project of Brad Smith. Formerly of Blind Melon, Smith is most notably the author of that band's signature song, "No Rain." Though Smith was the bass player with Blind Melon, he was also the songwriter (Shannon Hoon was the singer and died in 1995). Smith's songwriting focuses on the simple pleasures that music can bring, and "Mercy" displays Smith's depth of talent.
By manipulating half-life-sized puppets, operated by a puppet master and two assistants clothed in black and in view of the audience, members of the Tonda Puppet Theater of Japan evoke a nearly forgotten art form.
Garbage was once the perfect band. Not in the sense that its music projected a superior aura or that its first two albums were impeccable.
Blowing air against the windowpane, drawing the number into the moisture, Bobby Garfield can think only of turning 11 and receiving the ideal bike.
The darling of critics nationwide, "Ghost World" promises to be a revolutionary piece of cinematic art that will renew viewer's faith in the power of film.
Bearing the burden of being labeled Gram Parsons reincarnated and the Kurt Cobain of alternative country, Ryan Adams has spent his entire career destroying stigmas placed on him by a music community overly eager to anoint a new savior. Adams first gained critical clout as lead singer and songwriter of Whiskeytown, a band that over a seven-year course became one of the brightest talents to emerge from the slowly dying, or at least mutating, alt-country genre.
That the University of Virginia is a school of tradition is a fact few would attempt to dispute.
Who is Tenacious D? Well, if you ask the band's members, they would tell you they are "The Greatest Band in History" and they've come here to "kick some ass." But who are they, really? Tenacious D, or "the D" as the band members often refer to themselves, formed back in 1994 in Los Angeles with members Jack Black (lead vocals, guitar) and Kyle Gass (lead acoustic guitar, vocals). They started out playing small clubs when they were picked up to join a comedy show in Hollywood.
The first play of the 2001-2002 drama department season will be showing this weekend in the Helms Theatre.
It's not exactly a horror film. Or a drama. It falls somewhere in between suspense and confusion.
As with most people following the tragic events of Sept. 11, the thought of watching anything but CNN's commentary was virtually an impossibility for me.
Let's play a game. When you hear the name of a rock group blurt out the first five adjectives you think of.
Tori Amos never has lacked audacity. She has no qualms attacking Christianity or sexual repression and she's been known to prance around with rats (see "God" video). But you have to give her multitudinous credit for being so bold as to undertake her latest project.
That does it. I'm finally calling Jay-Z out on one of the most outlandish claims of his career. I mean, it's not like Jay-Z to boast, but on "Lyrical Exercise," one of the bonus tracks on his latest album, "The Blueprint," Jigga claims to "be leading the league in at least six statistical categories." One of them is "my interviews are hotter," but that gets disqualified on account of Ol' Dirty Bastard still being alive.
Tucked away behind a small stretch of garden at 609 East Market St, Live Arts' Mainstage theatre currently houses the Virginia premiere of "W;t," Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
When the premise is one of the greatest stories ever told - Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers" - a movie has a lot to live up to.
"The Glass House" is a thriller that isn't particularly thrilling. While there is nothing actually wrong with this film, and many things right, it's incomplete and therefore somewhat crippled. "House" is the story of two children - 16-year-old Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) and her 11-year-old brother, Rhett (Trevor Morgan) - who are orphaned when their parents die in a car accident.
Virtuoso behind-the-scenes man Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, who has written and produced hits for stars including Madonna, Whitney Houston and Boyz II Men, was himself propelled into stardom's stratosphere in 1994 with the chart-topping ballad "When Can I See You Again." Although other successes followed, including 1996's "Every Time I Close My Eyes" with Mariah Carey, Babyface's recent work has veered dangerously into the territory of watered-down, adult contemporary R&B, and the degree of mainstream recognition his work enjoyed in the mid-1990s has largely eluded him since then.
