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.
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.
Since it's been on heavy rotation on MTV and the radio lately, Prince's song "Black Sweat" has been a constant earworm for me.
With Public Enemy's Rebirth of a Nation, Chuck D and Flavor Flav are back with enough venom to make corporate America shake in its suits. In their eleventh studio album, PE once again fuses rap with social and political commentary.
After two hours, I emerged from the theater disoriented, my heart pounding like I'd run a mile and wishing I could get a full body massage -- watching Running Scared was just as taxing on my senses as strenuous physical activity.
Have you wanted to check out the dance groups on Grounds but haven't gotten the chance yet? You're in luck -- seven dance groups will be performing in the University Program Council's first-ever Dance Showcase tonight at 8 p.m.
If you go to see The Pink Panther this week expecting Steve Martin to duplicate Peter Sellers' performance from the original movie series, then you are doomed for disappointment. The key to watching this new version of Pink Panther is to remember that it's based on the idea of the original and is not an exact remake.
I have to admit, I was skeptical about a hip-hop event being held in tiny McLeod Hall Auditorium, but Battlegrounds proved it could be done. Students from Liberty University joined those from the University and packed into the auditorium to see an intense dance-off and a fierce free-style rap battle sponsored by Sigma Gamma Rho and EMC Talent Group.
Mr. Brown, a funeral home director and widowed father of seven, needs all the help he can get. His brood has managed to get rid of 17 nannies -- the last nanny bursting out of the front door in a fit of screams.
Sitting down in my front-and-center seat at Culbreth to see For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, I didn't know what to expect.