Technosonics VIII at Live Arts
Just for going, you’re officially allowed to drop “uber” in conversation without sounding like you’re trying too hard. You’ll be officially cool. Uber officially cool. UVA’s Matthew Burtner is kind of a big deal and definitely a genius, and his musical concoctions will be illuminated with experimental video. Best part: it’s free.
Friday-Saturday: Proof at Piedmont Valley Community College Theatre
I really like this play, and I’m always glad to see students performing. Enjoy an edge-of-your-seat plot and support the cause!
Saturday: Clint Black at the Paramount
Ain’t he a cutie-patootie? If I knew anything about country music, I’d write it here.
Saturday-Sunday: Oyster Roast at Cardinal Point Winery
Wine, oysters, music, and autumn mountain foliage! Tickets are $7 advance, $10 at the door, plus the cost of wine and oysters.
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Do you guys want another meet-up?
so did we post cultural events because we have grown up and aren’t drinking anymore?
I think we should do a non-cultural meetup again. Should I start blackmailing bars for specials?
For you theater hounds Live Arts is also having a staged reading of a new play Saturday. It is “pay what you want” night. Staged readings are informal, and are not a full production. Actors will have script in hand and there will be a discussion with the audience and director after the reading. “The Discourse of Folly,” a drama, was written by Stephen Sossaman and will be directed by Jenny Mead. The readers include: me, Frank Cardella, Rick Hite, John Holdren, Rebecca Hudnall, Ray Nedzel, and Justin Sarafin. In the play, comedy and political ideas weave together, when a tyrannical pope on the eve of war clashes with a rebellious Michelangelo and an independent daughter, while the not yet famous Machiavelli (me) and Erasmus struggle against each other for influence, jobs, and escape from the rack. Hope to see you there.
Does the suggested meet-up have to happen at one of these events? Not necessarily a deal-breaker, just wondering?
Thanks for remembering me (as the one and only Michelangelo) Chuck:(
Whoops, sorry dude. Blame Live Arts: I just copied and pasted from their web site! They must have written it before Stephen cast you
So as an addendum to my previous post:
FEATURING TIM AS THE DIVINE MICHAELANGELO!
We’re on our way to Richmond for a concert. Since Starr Hill closed, the mid-sized venues in Richmond have had much more impressive line ups than ours. Hurry up, Coran! Get that darn theater open!
Upstart, how was your concert road-trip? Who’d you see, and where did you see them? You can’t tease us like that then not follow up.. and I agree completely about the better show line-ups in Richmond [anyone up for a Bravery road-trip on Friday?]
“Culture sucks.” Quiz of the week: who said that?
Dudes. And dudettes. It’s totally intimidating that belmont, yo is even with me in voter popularity (and I have to use “even with” because I can’t spell tie-ing). Wait, where was I going with that? I guess I’m okay with him kicking my ass. He’s probably awesome. And I am so not.
Ahhh! Going for the sympathy vote, eh? Well played. Well played, indeed. Well two can play at that game…
I am not awesome. As evidence, I offer the fact that the last sort of thing like this that I even remotely figured in was winning “Best Esophagus” in my senior class of high school. I have still been known to recount these halcyon esophogial days of wine and roses to strangers in bars, often accompanied by overly dramatic throat poses.
Thats drunken throat poses. In bars. To strangers. Coupled with the bindle-stick optional gins-giving, and I am the bottom of the barrel underdog to your forum moderator of all powerful creator of gossip site-ness. Plus you have boobies. How can I match that? Im just sayin.
Still. Bring it.
(you know im playin, yo?)
Lilith, sounds like something we’d hear from Thor? Or George W
We went to see Galactic at Toad’s Place.
First of all, Toad’s Place is the nicest medium sized concert venue I’ve ever seen. It’s so refreshing to be excited about going to a show in part because the venue is fantastic. I’m not the type to let a crappy venue get me down, but it sure is nice to go to one that’s so nice.
Galactic is a fantastic New Orleans funk band that’s been around for quite some time. Last year, they decided to mix things up and do an album with various hip hop and rap artists. Some of the results are okay, but some are pretty lame, IMO. The show had two “speeds”. When they played Galactic songs, the crowd was dancing. When they had the hip hop singer join them on stage, most of the crowd was dancing and some of the younger people were waving their hands like they were at a rap show. When they had the rap guy (Mr. Lif…”That’s L-I-F…without the T!”) with them most of the crowd was just standing there, while some jumped up and down. It was a pretty interesting to watch the crowd change with each song change.
I had heard similar observations from friends who saw Galactic shows in other cities, so I was expecting this but some Galactic fans seemed let down by the change in styles.
I had a lot of fun. Galactic used to play Starr Hill when they came through the area, but I can’t seeing them bother coming to Cville with Toad’s Place right there in Richmond.