The Old Crow Medicine Show rolled up to The National last night for a full-throttle performance to a capacity crowd. The Show was in good company.Although most of the crowd […]
Of the six engaging, varied pieces shown last week in Richmond Ballet’s New Works Festival (each having been recently set over three weeks during 30 hours of rehearsals), two took […]
Behold! And Blackie Lawless came forth with his epic tale, and bestowed it upon his people!Well, unlike Moses, he didn’t lead millions of faithful through the desert to escape the […]
Eighth blackbird, the new-music sextet in residence at the University of Richmond, won a Grammy Award for best chamber music performance for its album “Strange Imaginary Animals.”“We’re very excited,” Lisa […]
Big ups to local DJ Chris Bopst for turning me on to this highly entertaining vaudevillian swing band featuring lots of smoking kazoo work, old country/ragtime and snappy hot jazz. […]
They screamed, they danced, they reveled and drank. And eventually, with a little police prodding, they left. A reported 15,000 people crammed the streets for the second annual Carytown NYE […]
The comics occupy less and less space in the newspapers these days, and even when they have a page or two of their own, each strip is so reduced in […]
It’s easy to dismiss James “Saxsmo” Gates as a gifted musician caught somewhere between smooth jazz and the real deal. But it’s far more difficult to discount the passion and […]
It’s easy to dismiss James “Saxsmo” Gates as a gifted musician caught somewhere between smooth jazz and the real deal. But it’s far more difficult to discount the passion and […]
Sept. 21 may well have been Black Friday.Beginning with a morning news release by Mayor L. Douglas Wilder’s press secretary that stops just millimeters from directly accusing City Council President […]
