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Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on May 15th, 2013
3 comments "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." – Robert Frost   Bell returns to her roots After playing in Europe this spring, Charlottesville native...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on May 8th, 2013
2 comments “I think the age of being too cool for things is so incredibly over. If you’re a real artist out there, you don’t care who your fans are. If people connect with your music, what more could you ever...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on May 1st, 2013
0 comments “Long you live and high you'll fly, and smiles you'll give, tears you'll cry, and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.” ― Pink Floyd   Floydian experience The Machine,...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Apr 25th, 2013
0 comments “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music." ― Kurt Vonnegut   Stringdusters play for the MRC Appropriately enough for...
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Published on Apr 17th, 2013
2 comments "Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live." - James Brown   FAF finally here! It's a sure sign that spring is really here–free Fridays After Five concerts at the Pavilion...
Video Special: Tom Tom Festival round-up
Published on Apr 13th, 2013
6 comments The Tom Tom Festival is still going. Indeed, a reporter hears jazz plating right outside his window. But videographer Anwar Allen has already covered some of the action. Enjoy!   So, what do...
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Published on Apr 11th, 2013
0 comments "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'" - Robin Williams   Schoolhouse block partyBlock parties are just plain cool. Although still in its infancy, the Tom Tom Festival this weekend...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Apr 3rd, 2013
14 comments “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ~ Johann...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Mar 20th, 2013
0 comments "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." – Marcel Proust   Lose your head Ever been tempted to escape the...
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Published on Mar 19th, 2013
3 comments "You know the kind of joke that's super-hilarious but also points in some genius way to the whole thing of the universe? Like that."—Daniel Handler, on Paul Legault's The Emily Dickinson Reader...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Mar 13th, 2013
1 comments "Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso   Eyes of the world on Wolf Trap If you haven't made a visit to the art gallery Les Yeux du Monde, atop a hill on Wolf Trap...
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Published on Mar 6th, 2013
5 comments “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince   Shredding, plunging, climbing"Living this...
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Published on Feb 26th, 2013
3 comments “What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.” ― Werner HerzogOtherness to the sceneMonsters invade March's First Friday art lineup at the...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Feb 19th, 2013
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Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Feb 14th, 2013
0 comments "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." –Jean-Luc Godard It's a generalization, of course, but whereas American film tends to be all spectacle or plot, French film thrives on...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Feb 7th, 2013
0 comments "Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Jan 29th, 2013
3 comments "Simplified gestural figures continue to illustrate the wonder and the struggle of being human, and our hunger for validation.”– Intimacy Theories, by Polly Breckenridge First Fridays....
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Jan 23rd, 2013
2 comments A story about a boy, his Garageband program, and thousands of screaming fans.Dude known only as "Jared," an engineering student at Lehigh University, begins messing around with Garageband, releases a...
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Published on Jan 16th, 2013
2 comments   Hey hey, my my/ Rock and roll will never die / There's more to the picture/ Than meets the eye / Hey hey, my my–Neil YoungNo, rock and roll will never die, but that doesn't mean it can't...
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
Published on Jan 7th, 2013
6 comments "I'm a voodoo child baby, I don't take no for an answer" One of the many rock and roll angels of the '60s that flamed out in spectacular fashion, Jimi Hendrix brought a raw, wild energy into the...
FunStuff: January 3 beyond
Published on Dec 31st, 2012
0 comments Downton Abbey premiereIf you're into Downton Abbey, the English drama that the New York Times dubbed “an instant classic,” and the Wall Street Journal called “impossible to resist,” you won't want...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events December 20 and beyond
Published on Dec 16th, 2012
0 comments One singular sensationMaybe Cats had a longer run on Broadway, but in our book, A Chorus Line remains the most beloved, but less-cringe-inducing classic musical. The tale of 17 desperate dancers...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events December 13 and beyond
Published on Dec 10th, 2012
4 comments On a rollIt may be quieter than usual at John Paul Jones Arena when the UVA Mens Basketball team takes on Morgan State on Wednesday night. The semester will have ended just a day earlier, so many...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events December 6 and beyond
Published on Dec 2nd, 2012
1 comments Holiday soulMaybe you don't want to tell anyone that you were first in line at Walmart on Black Friday. And maybe you did gently push someone as you lunged for the last $199 flat-screen TV. It's over...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events November 29 and beyond
Published on Nov 27th, 2012
1 comments Parachute drops inHometown boys band Parachute return to town for two shows at the Jefferson Theater. Since falling under the wing of local band manager and music mogul Coran Capshaw, Parachute,...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events November 22 and beyond
Published on Nov 19th, 2012
3 comments Run like a turkeyBe one of those hot dogs who smugly burn giga-calories before the Thursday Thanksgiving gluttony begins. Registration for the  31st annual run at Boar's Head is already closed...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events November 15 and beyond
Published on Nov 11th, 2012
3 comments Darwin's awardThe jangly guitars are tempting us to suggest that this band has a sort of Laurel Canyon sound. However, with a leader who resembles the young Cheech Marin and his singing style...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events November 8 and beyond
Published on Nov 4th, 2012
1 comments Powerful readsBack in 1994, David Huddle published The Writing Habit, a collection of essays on how to stay focused on the craft, avoid writer's block, and let creative juices flow. He walks the...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events November 1 and beyond
Published on Oct 31st, 2012
0 comments Rock in the ElectionWhy shouldn't Election Day be fun, too? The folks at WTJU radio think it should be, and that's why they're throwing an election night party. Indeed, this Presidential election...
FunStuff: Charlottesville events October 25 and beyond
Published on Oct 21st, 2012
1 comments Counting CrowsThe music of the 1990s has had enough time now to properly age, and already certain songs have shown remarkable staying power; think, like, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Creep," or "Black...