ARTS Picks: Charlottesville SOUP
Dig in to tasty, homemade fare, mingle with influential thinkers and makers from the local art scene, and help launch a new creative community project. Based on the successful Detroit Soup...
View ArticleChampion Brewing and the Bridge PAI announce Belmont Beer Design Competition
Champion Brewing and the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative are collaborating with residents in the Belmont neighborhood to produce and brand a summer beer. Throughout June, local artists and designers...
View ArticleC’est si BON: Local café and art gallery changes its beat
Charlottesville’s newest event venue, café, and chill spot, BON, is kicking off its first month of business on the ground floor of the Pink Warehouse on South Street. Though BON has existed as a drum...
View ArticleTelling the story: Photographer Gregory Crewdson manufactures perfection
An old sedan turns right onto an empty main street. Its tires pull smooth black strokes through a cover of newly fallen snow. The street is quiet, the sky filled with the ash gray of early morning or...
View ArticleTiger Eyes: Judy Blume visits Vinegar Hill Theatre for screening of her first...
I first got the run down on how babies are made from Kim Blodgett in whispers on the kickball field when I was seven. I thought my friend must be poorly misinformed (and possibly a little disturbed)...
View ArticleQueen bee: Honeycomb’s Claibourne Reppert grows her style empire
I met up with Claibourne Reppert, owner of The Honeycomb Salon and Gallery, at her renovated warehouse apartment just before 10 on a Sunday morning. She was cooking hashbrowns and slowly waking up...
View ArticleAugust is bustin’ out all over: Ash Lawn Opera brings Carousel to the Paramount
The first thing people always ask me is, ‘You’re an opera company, why are you doing a musical?’” said Michelle Krisel, General Director of Ash Lawn Opera, and the behind-the-scenes creative force in...
View ArticleJim Rounsevell: If he builds it…
Jim Rounsevell is after architecture deeply rooted in place, built “for our time with what we have, with care, and with discipline.” His commitment to aesthetics, design, and a progressive future for...
View ArticleChicho Lorenzo: Art with a smile
“Chicho wears many hats here,” says BON’s proprietor John Noble, and there are certainly many hats to wear and jobs to do at the recently opened café, art gallery, and event venue in the Pink...
View ArticleNew executive director at The Bridge PAI eyes community crossover
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative spent the winter months like a hibernating brick beast. The gallery doors were often locked during business hours, and weeks passed with its walls bare and white....
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