The movie menu for this millennium's 11th summer offered up some promising fare across the genre spectrum to please both comedy fans and action addicts, or lovers of thrillers or light animated flicks. If June represented the appetizer round, one could say it was a mixed bag.
How do you approach a Katy Perry album? With dread, fearing that you're about to be subjected to 55 minutes of asinine lyrics, bored production and off-key vocals?
Mockingjay, the thrilling conclusion to Suzanne Collins' best-selling, highly-acclaimed The Hunger Games trilogy, was published last Tuesday, finally ending the anticipation for thousands of fans.
Springfest offers University students music food, and games all in one huge festival - for free. The University Programs Council has been throwing Springfest for the past few years, and it has consistently hosted notable musicians like Ben Folds, OK Go and Sara Bareilles.
As illuminated by February's e-book pricing battle between Amazon.com and book publisher Macmillan, the future of the book industry is moving away from traditional brick-and-mortar stores and into Internet-based sellers.
Most ABC television shows, especially the comedies, are hit or miss. Series like ABC's recent creation Modern Family have gumption that viewers fall in love with; the characters are original and flawed to the necessary comic extent, and the circumstances parody reality.
After hundreds of remixes, thousands of plays at dance floors everywhere, commercial appearances and several world tours, MGMT moved more than half a million copies of 2007's Oracular Spectacular.
Do you miss Nathan Fillion on the small screen? Do you wish that he was still fighting the Alliance and leading the crew of Serenity?
Summer movies come in one of two varieties: epically bad or epically good. With this guide, you will know which ones to avoid and which ones you should buy tickets for in advance. Iron Man 2: May 7 Robert Downey Jr.
A spin-off of a spin-off: It's a bold idea and an even bolder - if not crazy - move. But according to the positive reviews from an advanced screening at the South by Southwest Film Fest, the producers of the new film MacGruber, which opens May 21, know how to take a bold idea and deliver on it.
Charlottesville has always nurtured a vibrant, hip music scene, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that many local bands - like Dave Matthews Band, Parachute and Tim Be Told - have moved on to find national success.
Why do bad things always happen to great television shows? That's the question I asked myself when I recently read that the popular channel, FX Networks, may be forced to cancel one of its marquee shows, Damages, because of rising production costs.
When and how did you become interested in photography? Was there a point when it transformed from a hobby to a passion? My first camera was a 35mm point-and-shoot that I got in the fourth grade, just before a family camping trip to the Pike's Peak area of Colorado.
Usually I wouldn't travel two hours to see a show on a Tuesday night, nor would I even mention the name of the opener in a concert review, but this opener for Lupe Fiasco at the 9:30 Club April 13 has a platinum single, "Nothing on You," and a highly anticipated album coming out two weeks after the show.
I'll be honest. I had to watch Layer Cake (2004) twice in a row to understand exactly what was going on in this fast-paced gangster thriller.
If I had to come up with one buzzword to describe the music scene during the last two years or so, it would have to be "reunions." From The Police to Led Zeppelin to Creed, it seems that an endless number of once popular bands are getting back together to recapture that old magic.
Most people probably can't identify with the feeling of being pinned down in a muddy foxhole while mortars explode all around, but the new HBO miniseries, The Pacific, allows the viewer to experience situations such as this vicariously because of the show's excellent direction and editing.
It wasn't the most auspicious of beginnings. I spent the entirety of my 12 p.m. class glancing at my watch: I was expecting a call from Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips, at 1. 2009 was a busy year for the psychedelic alternative rock band: The year marked the release of both its 12th studio album Embryonic and a cover of the classic Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon. When I heard that the Lips would rock the Charlottesville Pavilion tonight, I could not help myself.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year, you have heard about Twitter, the 140-character microblogging platform that exploded onto the social networking scene.
Pop music has gone through many trends and movements. But each trend, each new wave was defined by someone who took a chance, who broke free from commonly-accepted norms and created the next great hit. During the past few decades, we have seen the rise of norm-busting stars in popular music.
