Get ready, Charlottesville - there's about to be a riot. Critically acclaimed indie rockers Ra Ra Riot will be in town March 4, treating the Jefferson Theater to their unique blend of pulsating Anglophile rock and swooning chamber-pop. Ra Ra Riot's second album The Orchard was released last August, and it is safe to say they successfully avoided a sophomore slump.
Working through the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance - can be an exhausting, traumatic and frustrating process, but on her second album, 21, Grammy-award winning songstress Adele forgoes the psychiatrist's leather couch in favor of singing through her heartbreak.
As the stars flooded the red carpet for the 83rd Academy Awards, it became clear that red is the new black.
After the Academy Awards this past Sunday, many viewers immediately made plans to see The King's Speech, the Oscar winner for Best Picture.
Good news - you no longer have to go to the Big Apple to get a dose of Broadway. In fact, you don't even need to leave Charlottesville.
Since forming in Brooklyn in 2006, Atomic Tom steadily has been ascending to the top of the alternative rock world.
The arrival of sunny days and balmy temperatures in Charlottesville finds students taking their shorts and flip-flops out of storage and heading to the Corner with sunglasses in hand, optimistically hoping that winter is gone for good.
I admit it: I was a little hesitant to watch Winter's Bone. A few days before, I had watched the trailer and thought it looked like a doom and gloom movie that would have a depressing ending and make me want to send the director to therapy.
Stars and reporters will line the red carpet Feb. 27 at the 83rd Academy Awards. With only a few days remaining until the statues are handed out, here are some picks and predications for the most interesting Oscar races.
In 1968, a Jamaican man named Clive Campbell saw the song "The Big Payback" performed live by James Brown.
Possibly the weirdest but most interesting film released in a while, Exit Through the Gift Shop, directed by notorious English street artist Banksy, follows Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant living in Los Angeles.
Harrowing moments abound in Alejandro Gonz
The Oscar-nominated film The Kids are All Right follows the story of two children, Laser and Joni, who search for the sperm donor that their mothers, Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening), used to conceive.
According to classic American folklore, John Henry was the strongest man alive, born with a hammer in his hand.
I always said this would never happen, but in the shrewd guidance of Justin Bieber, "Never Say Never." I feared this day might come, and now I profess: I have "Bieber Fever." Well, maybe not the full-on diagnosis, but now I finally understand the symptoms and just how contagious it can be.
As a prolific and talented composer, Judith Shatin, the William R. Kenan Jr. professor in the McIntire Department of Music and founder of the Virginia Center for Computer Music, has seen and contributed to the success of many musical projects.
The 2011 Grammy awards offered a few surprises among a seemingly predictable evening of events.
Who will win the Oscar for Actor in a Leading Role?
Confession: I am addicted to ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, and if you've ever seen it, you can't deny that you are too.
