For the past few years, the singing and dancing delights of the High School Musical series have captured young imaginations.
Famed dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones will speak at the University?s first ever Convocation for the Arts Sunday, signaling the start of Jones? week as the dance department?s artist in residence Nov.
While Kevin Smith has not quite lost his touch, that touch has certainly become a softer one.
Until quite recently, ?sobriety? was not a word one used much when discussing Ryan Adams? music.
As a band gets more popular, they very often lose something in their sound.
A new Bloc Party album is always a lesson in how to ignore the rule book.
For this week?s ?From the Vault? selection, I have chosen an album that speaks to the outsider.
During the course of its existence, the Virginia Film Festival has cultivated a reputation as one of the country?s most unique and exciting cinema events.
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World is a book for cat-lovers and all others who enjoy sentimental animal-human bonding.
Early Oscar buzz for Jolie, HoffmanIt?s only October, but already Angelina Jolie and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are generating serious Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor buzz.
Obama Advertisements Obama criticizes McCain?s and the federal government?s mortgage planDoes this ad sound unfamiliar?
Throughout the tedious writer?s strike, the dog days of summer when all the big budget releases had gone and the letdowns for fall television, only one thing this year has been consistently entertaining.
iTunes has a problem with defining genres. Skeletal Lamping, the newest album by Of Montreal epitomizes alternative music, shattering the mold of ?rock? music in which iTunes has placed it.Instead of the more defined and pounding beats that usually accompany rock music, Of Montreal uses a lighter, somewhat muddled background beat, even for their slower, more melancholy songs such as ?Touched Something?s Hollow.? Their sound is vaguely reminiscent of The Beatles during their less pop, more drugs phase, bringing to mind such songs as ?I am the Walrus? or ?Mean Mr. Mustard.? A more accurate description might include a meeting between The Beatles and Scissor Sisters.Another, more disconcerting oddity of Skeletal Lamping is that many of the songs just seem to end, as opposed to conclude.
Aterciopelados?s latest CD, Rio, has an infectious sound, catchy beat and calming effect.
It is difficult to imagine something we all take for granted just disappearing ? but this is exactly what this weekend?s drama department show addresses.
Today, our country is gripped by economic hardship, drained by the war in Iraq and glued to CNN as we watch the most important election of our generation unfold.
Charlottesville ? an art-obssessed townFor the art-hungry sick of wandering around the U.Va.
Everyone has skeletons in their musical closet. It?s a fact. We?ve got the bands we?re proud to listen to whose posters decorate our walls, whose T-shirts we own and whose concert tickets we?ll line up to buy (Jay-Z and TI anyone?). Then there are the groups we attempt to hide from people as they browse through our music library on iTunes.
Music sampling is becoming more and more common in today?s hip-hop market.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 went to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl
