If you happened to take a stroll down Cherry Avenue 30 years ago, you might have heard Carter Beauford, the drummer for the Dave Matthews Band, practicing. The band first came together in 1991 in Charlottesville, and 10 years later, the group played a sold-out concert at the University.
In his latest novel Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell displays the uncanny talent for seamlessly melding apparent opposites with deft, addictive storytelling.
Following the premiere of its fifth and final season a few weeks ago on DirecTV, I found myself dreading the inevitable end of one of the best television series of the past decade: Friday Night Lights.
If you are male and ever meet Taylor Swift, odds are she will write a song about you. The current darling of the music industry has made millions of dollars and built up a global fan base turning experiences with boys -
Just a few short years ago, NBC's Saturday Night Live was plummeting downhill. Enter Andy Samberg, the boys of the Lonely Island and the SNL Digital Short.
Remember those old-school hip-hop jams? "I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie." There was something about those songs that exuded pure goodness and relaxation.
In our culture of instant gratification, mainstream music that rises above conformity is a rare find, and this problem seems especially exaggerated in the hip-hop genre.
Due Date is part Meet the Parents, with the well-intentioned guy constantly getting misunderstood and given a bad time.
Growing up is difficult. Throw in the complications of rapid modernization, as in India, and we get the central conflict of The Immortals, the latest novel by Indian-English writer Amit Chaudhuri, explores 1980s Bombay from the perspective of Nirmalya Sengupta, the teenage son of a business tycoon, as he pursues his love of classical Indian music.
With How I Met Your Mother now well into its sixth season, Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted in the series, has experienced the ups and downs of a young adult trying to establish himself in New York. Radnor's new film, happythankyoumoreplease, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and showed this weekend at the Virginia Film Festival, deals with a similar, although more weighty, theme, following several New Yorkers as they try to settle into their new lives as adults. Radnor stopped by the Virginia Film Festival during the showing of happythankyoumoreplease Sunday night, which he directed, wrote and starred in, and spoke with tableau beforehand about the process that went into creating the film as well as what he considered when casting it. tableau: What was your inspiration for the film? Radnor: I wanted to write a great movie to give myself an acting opportunity.
Very few places around the world have as much on-screen character as New York City - as the city that never sleeps, New York has a naturally progressive feeling, which often serves as a background for fictitious characters to drive themselves toward self-fulfillment and better relationships with those around them.
The 23rd annual Virginia Film Festival, which ran from Nov. 4-7, drew a diverse range of films, speakers and presentations, culminating in the most successful festival yet.
We are likely all familiar with the typical, clich
"Casino" Jack Abramoff is the Super Lobbyist, or at least he was before his career came crashing down under federal indictments in 2006.
Imagine this scene: You're hiking in the magnificent desert canyons of Utah, breathing in the unpolluted air of nature and crossing rocky slopes while the beat of your favorite playlist pushes you around each twist and turn.
Yes, the Virginia football team just lost to Duke for the third season in a row. With such recent success, some students may have forgotten that the team has seen better days.
Whether she's walking the halls of the CIA, dealing with a foreign contact in a tense situation or preparing breakfast for her family, Naomi Watts inhabits Fair Game with a cool, steely-eyed demeanor that rarely breaks, even when surrounded by her collection of well-off Washingtonian friends at dinner parties.
You know the Corner Parking Lot. Bordered by train tracks and buffeted by the rear end of Littlejohn's, it has long served as a cut-through for students traversing the Corner or heading to class.
Since its inception during the late 1980s, the Virginia Film Festival has proven itself year in and year out as one of the more distinguished film festivals across the country.
