Maestro of the pedal steel guitar rocked the Pavilion
By Meta Pettus | April 27, 2006Fans of Robert Randolph and the Family Band poured into Charlottesville Pavilion last Thursday to see a man who really knows how to wear a fedora.
Fans of Robert Randolph and the Family Band poured into Charlottesville Pavilion last Thursday to see a man who really knows how to wear a fedora.
The plot of Our Lady of 121st Street revolves around a mystery -- specifically, the missing cadaver of Sister Rose.
I always feel like I've discovered a secret at Continental Divide. Located on West Main Street across from the Amtrak station, it's not exactly somewhere you'd stumble upon.
It is difficult to contest that Tetris is something of a gaming masterpiece. One of the best-selling and most universally available games of all time, Tetris has put gamers in a trance for over a decade and a half.
Toby's back, and his message is "Get Drunk and Be Somebody." White Trash With Money starts off with this song, one that has already made the rounds on CMT.
Seeing that I was lucky enough to have been born and raised in Atlanta, it seemed fitting that I should see the new appropriately-titled movie, ATL.
Many Charlottesville spots tout themselves as tapas restaurants, but none are as worthy of the claim as Mas.
Part of growing up is moving on from the music that you used to listen to. Many times, music fans will support a band until they hit TRL and nation-wide radio rotation.
The thing that underground hip-hop prides itself on -- above all else -- is its dissimilarity with itsmainstream counterpart.
It's happening again. The time of the year when those CHUDs* we like to call FilmMaker's Studio kids bubble up from the depths of their secret celluloid world to finally expose their work to us normal students.
Serving expertly prepared Southeast Asian fare in a small and homey dining room, Monsoon is a delightful departure from the ordinary.
When Mark Cohen himself strolls onto the stage in Old Cabell, the excitement is palpable. The audience whispers, people in the mezzanine rustle merchandise.
On a spring day nearly a century ago, Igor Stravinsky debuted a work entitled the "Rite of Spring." It caused emotions to run the gambit from utter outrage to barely-cloaked disgust. Now, 93 years later on a different continent, another spring performance will transpire.
The definition of "placebo" is a substance containing no medication and prescribed to reinforce a patient's expectation to get well or something of no intrinsic remedial value that is used to appease or reassure another.
It's a dark, warm Thursday night, and all is quiet around Grounds. An occasional person shuffles down the sidewalk above the Newcomb courtyard between Peabody and Newcomb Hall.
It's been 20 years since The Smiths released their masterpiece, The Queen Is Dead, and sealed their place in rock history as the British indie band of the 1980s.
Some of us just have all the luck. Again, I managed to see a movie with a very bloody and dramatic opening with no reason given upfront for the violence.
Georges (Daniel Auteuil) has been having nightmares -- rancid dreams of blood, a sickly boy and roosters from his childhood in 1950s France.
Charlottesville's Downtown Mall has its share of watering holes, and Kiki is moving its way up the ranks.
In life, there are those that follow the rules and those that bend them. The band Yeah Yeah Yeahs would fall in the latter category. The group began in Ohio, where vocalist Karen O met guitarist Nick Zinner while at Oberlin College.