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Friendly skies: Making calls to the cosmos Published on Jul 17th, 2003 0 comments
Lisette Larkins has been communicating with extraterrestrials since 1987. The good news, she says, is that they’re not out to dominate or destroy us. On the contrary, they are available for...
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Feel the beat: African-American festival celebrates Published on Jul 17th, 2003 0 comments
Into the dead heat of summer comes the energizing, joyful spirit of Charlottesville’s 14th African-American Cultural Arts Festival. The week-long festival will energize locations around town with a...
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Playwrights unite: Live Arts Summer Fest Published on Jul 17th, 2003 0 comments
This summer, in their line up of no-frills, no-ego, just-the-play-please summer theater, Live Arts is including the works of four local women playwrights: Lila Fenton, Kathryn Stolzenbach, Leeyanne...
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j. cr & p. brn Published on Jul 17th, 2003 0 comments
For his previous exhibit, “j. cr & p. brn,” artist Jonathan Stuhlman did what few artists are willing or able to do (or at least admit to publicly). He took the imagery in clothing catalogs...
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Tots on top: Special events lure little ones Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
It is a rainy Wednesday afternoon when three-year-old Katie, accompanied by her mom and baby brother, ducks into the Virginia Discovery Museum to play. Katie likes the dress-up area best: She clomps...
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The Silent Type: Everything but passion Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
The Richmond-based band The Silent Type contains among its ranks a former member of defunct local heroes Excitebike, singer/guitarist Nathan Altrice. Excitebike was, until its untimely breakup in...
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Light-speed reading: No pottering about with Harry Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
Imagine if the company running the fictional “Hogwarts Express” were to inaugurate a frequent-flier style promotion, whereby every trip along the route of Harry, Ron, and Hermione was credited and...
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Martha's malt? New brews at Monticello Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
Monticello microbrew? It’s no news that Thomas Jefferson was quite the wine connoisseur, but did you know that beer was actually the dinner beverage of choice at Monticello? Thanks to a newly...
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Culture central: Ash Lawn operas spice up summer Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
Ash Lawn-Highland, the estate of James Monroe, has a long history of encouraging cultural development. In 1793, Thomas Jefferson coaxed Monroe to purchase the land adjoining Monticello to form "a...
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Art, films? Store pictures aren't moving Published on Jul 10th, 2003 0 comments
Sanjay Vora must have been a solid employee as well as a talented artist. Vora’s former employer, Charlottesville’s art video rental joint, Sneak Reviews– an establishment seriously lacking in...
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Wave that flag! Celebrations sparkle all over Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
“This is going to be the biggest and best Fourth of July ever,” declares Tim Carr of the Scottsville Volunteer Fire Department. Carr is helping to organize his town’s Independence Day celebration...
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New band? Marzaks 2.0 sounds familiar Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
For a band that’s been together for less than three years, the Marzaks have had line-up changes similar to the member-swapping fiasco that was (and according to their webpage, is) Jefferson Airplane/...
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A to Z: 26 ways he can do you wrong Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
I can’t help wondering if The Dictionary of Failed Relationships fell into my in-box as some sort of reparation for my failure to get on the Sex and the City bandwagon. This, sisters, is the Diva of...
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Armchair hikers: Cross the Pyrenees and don't leave home Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
If you love hiking but just can’t take the summer heat, or if you’re just in the mood to sit back and be inspired by someone else’s encounters with the wilderness, then Leonard Adkins is your man...
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Dramatic sizzle: Summer shows warm local stages Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
Local stages are continuing to heat up as summer moves along. Live Arts preps for its annual festival; Ash Lawn opera singers rehearse for opening night (July 12); the Four County Players gear up for...
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Boled over: Big trees suggest stories Published on Jul 3rd, 2003 0 comments
Emilie Brzezinski came to modern art by an unusual path. Hardly the bohemian loft dweller, Brzezinski inhabited instead the upper echelon of the Washington, D.C., social scene as the wife of an...
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Scooper bowl XI: Scream for more than ice cream Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
It’s not easy to get kids to eat a healthy diet. My boys just don’t want to hear it when I try to preach the gospel of good nutrition. But you can bet they will be the first in line this Saturday at...
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Hybrid: Skyline Awake-- the sound's familiar... Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
Few bands easily walk the line between hardcore and straight-ahead pop/rock. Hardcore, for those of you of the older persuasion without kids, is probably the present day music least palatable to...
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Sign up: Pick up your pen and get started Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
The Charlottesville Writing Center is putting out an APB for wannabe writers. With just under two weeks till scheduled start date, the summer poetry course is looking like a non-starter, and the...
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One of US: Taking the oath at Monticello Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
Parades and fireworks are fine and dandy, but I’ve got a 4th of July event that could very likely bring tears to your eyes, or at least a big stars-and-stripes smile: watching 77 people from 35...
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LAB experiments: Summer festival has full plate Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
Summer is upon us, and that means it's time for Live Arts’ Fourth Annual Summer Theater Festival. "We're serving up slices of life– nine different ways– plus other surprises, filling the...
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Allusive: Barbee more post- than modern Published on Jun 26th, 2003 0 comments
Robert Barbee’s paintings appear to be the work of several painters, all of whom have a deep interest in modernist art, just not the same kinds. A quick stroll through the Barbee Retrospective at Les...
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Phoenix rising: Partying for Potter Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
Everyone at our house is a Harry Potter fan —even…ahem… the adults among us. After three years with nothing but movies to satisfy our craving for magical adventures from the crew at Hogwarts School...
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Bright future: Taking the beaten path Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
Like Indiana Jones before it, local bluegrass group King Wilkie has taken its name from the unlikeliest of sources. Instead of co-opting the moniker of a beloved childhood pooch, as was the case with...
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Death to Deliverance Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
It’s a curious way to sell an SUV– as the ultimate getaway car to escape from hillbillies. That’s the pitch of a recent TV ad starring a handful of urbane buddies on a camping trip. They’ve...
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Solstice celebration: Salute the sun Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
At least in the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 marks the Summer Solstice– the beginning of summer and the longest day of the year. Since just about the beginning of human time, people around the...
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Success: Award-winning musical hits town Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, opening this week, is the first production in UVA's Heritage Repertory Theater's summer season....
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Filthy art: Exploring a building's bowels Published on Jun 19th, 2003 0 comments
The Second Street Gallery gave digital artist Shannon Kennedy unprecedented access to the gallery facilities. That is, they let her root around in the chimney vents, the basement, and the boiler room...
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Note-worthy: Kids Discover music Published on Jun 12th, 2003 0 comments
Jumping, climbing, making noise. Singing, dancing, squealing, pounding. It’s what kids do. Not surprisingly, the Virginia Discovery Museum has found a way to wrestle all this lively activity into a...
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Open Road: From far away comes home Published on Jun 12th, 2003 0 comments
The songs on bluegrass/country-folk group Fred Eaglesmith & The Flathead Noodlers’ latest release, Balin, exude truth, joy, and honesty like few other roots releases I have heard this year, and...
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