What do 1984 Heisman Trophy Winner Doug Flutie, Saturday Night Live's Amy Poehler, Star Trek's Spock and the band Aberdeen City have in common?
For some new artists, getting noticed is an exercise in perseverance and grave determination. For Ashlee Simpson, fame was a walk in the park under the shade of her sister's success and her father's tutelage.
Metroid Prime was one of the best and most popular games on the Nintendo Gamecube. Pinball was one of the best and most popular games at bars, pool halls and arcades during the later half of the 20th century.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Modest Mouse front man Isaac Brock should be all smiles.
Hello again, readers. (Mom, Dad.) It feels like it's been ages since my last band column. What with tableau's last issue devoted entirely to the film festival, my worries and woes about midterms and then the stress of finding the perfect Halloween costume (my ultimate selection: a fat suit), I'm glad to be back, having a chat about local music. I was supposed to meet the members of Bella Morte on the steps of the Rotunda.
What do Tenacious D, Lauryn Hill, The Killers and U.Va. a cappella have in common? They will all come together for one exciting night this Friday during Newtendo, the New Dominions' fall performance.
When Josie Aimes approaches a lawyer to press charges of sexual harassment against the town mine, he reduces her crisis to a legal stereotype: "It's the nuts or sluts defense -- you're either crazy, or you deserved it." But as a female employee in a workplace with a male-to-female ratio of 30 to 1, Josie (Charlize Theron) is not insane.
In 1998, Jon Langford originally released The Executioner's Last Songs, the first album in a three volume set, to benefit the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project.
Fine wines, expensive cheeses, men -- okay, maybe not men -- but the other two certainly get better with age.
If you enjoy Fosse-style musicals, the First Year Players' new production of Pippin! probably won't disappoint.
There is a scene in Chagas: A Hidden Affliction in which pedestrians on Charlottesville's Downtown Mall are asked if they have ever heard of Chagas.
Sophie Scholl was a student protestor in Germany during the height of World War II. Sophie was arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and was subsequently interrogated then executed in early 1943.
Imagine interviewing other Americans who share your own name. Imagine that over half of them are victims of rape, domestic violence or child molestation. Hollywood screenwriter Angela Shelton performed this experiment for her documentary Searching for Angela Shelton and found tragedy in the lives of the women who share her name. For the film, Shelton traveled cross-country and met with 40 Angela Sheltons.
This weekend's Virginia Film Festival will culminate with a special presentation of Rodrigo Garcia's new film, Nine Lives.
A persistent feeling of uneasiness taints The Fever, the new film based on Wallace Shawn's controversial play.
In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley sent her 14-year-old son, Emmett, from Chicago down to Money, Mississippi to visit relatives.
I'll admit it -- I think soccer is pretty lame. I've never been any good at it, despite my lifelong obsession with Great Britain and all things English.
Lars von Triers is like a Danish version of Michael Moore, except he isn't funny and has never set foot in America.
Over the past 20 years, Mario has evolved from an awkward plumber into a cultural icon. The tales of his epic adventures have spread far and wide.
Uh oh. You mean you haven't had dinner reservations for Family Weekend at a chic steakhouse or nouveau American cafe since, oh, four weeks ago?
