As always head to Crush, Market Street, and Beer Run for Friday evening tastings. Don’t ignore MUSE and STYLE for more weekend events!
- Watch Menopause The Musical at The Paramount each day this weekend.
- UVA football has an off week, so look for a quieter Saturday.
- Fall is here! Go hiking, do a road trip around Botetourt County, or maybe start thinking about picking Apples.. Carter’s mountain opens their fall season this Saturday (oh and don’t forget it’s a good place to hook up, too)
- Go swing dance your brains out on Saturday night with the Charlottesville swing dance society.
- Visit Staunton and the Shakespearean theater for 12th Night, King Lear or Richard II.
- Hooray for Hopewell – Hopewell’s largest festival is nearly 30 years old. The weekend event features arts and crafts vendors, food concessions, displays by community service groups, children’s rides and a children’s stage featuring a variety of entertainment. Call (804) 541-0232 for details.
- Did you know that Oktoberfest officially starts on Saturday? For all the folks that think it starts in October, it always starts in late September. Celebrate with some local brewery action!
We miss anything? Let us know in the comments!
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- Weekend Preview: Carve Your Pumpkins!
- Weekend Preview: Pre Halloween Chillitude
- Weekend Preview: Grab Your Galoshes and Get Outdoors
eSc at snatch on friday and x-lozenge on sat.
but i have recently lost my mind, so we will see how it goes… yikes!
I’ll cya on Saturday, hope your mind is ok
there’s a new player in town, you guys: parlington cashberry’s fiduciary undertakings. we take care of your money, because nobody else does!
i’m going to spend my weekend injecting money into the global economy to help alleviate the liquidity crisis!
@3: parlie, did you know that “hot beef” is a widely underutilized euphemism for “money”? Yep. True story.
I thought you should know, as you spend your skrilla this weekend, that it would be entirely appropriate at the point of each sale to exclaim “I’m injecting my hot beef into the global economy!” And make sure you say it fairly loudly, the better to boost investor confidence.
I’m going to be getting sloshed and injecting my hot beef into obama’s campaign on saturday night for straight punch to the crotch at zinc.
it’s a fundraiser for obama, that is. I mean, I wouldn’t normally just inject my hot beef into just any random campaign when I got sloshed.
how’s fall season different from summer season? no more flavorless peaches that get moldy the day after you buy them?
I’ll put in a plug for my little upcoming event at my other job:
If anyone really enjoys biking, then you should participate in the Blue Ridge Chapter of the National MS Society’s fall bike tour called Bike MS 2008: Best of the Blue Ridge, Artie Levin Memorial Ride. This is a small but exciting ride through Botetourt Country that has 25, 50, 75, and 100 mile route options. It is a two-day tour that takes place September 27-28 and begins and ends in Buchanan, VA at the Buchanan Fairgrounds. Cyclists are handed the key to the Shenandoah Valley’s southern gate as you travel from Buchanan to Rockbridge County, in the Appalachian Mountains. It is an all-weekend party that will feature live local bands, like the Biscuit Rollers (www.thebiscuitrollers.com), stretch classes, plenty of food, beer, games, etc. This fully supported tour features frequent themed rest stops, SAG vehicles, radio communication, bike mechanics, medical staff and an abundance of entertainment for cyclists and volunteers. We hope you will join us as over 100 cyclists unite in moving towards a cure for multiple sclerosis.
If you want more info, visit http://www.bikeMSva.org
PS–Artie Levin was a bonafied celebrity in Southwestern Virginia as a local television host, newspaper columnist, and cycling enthusiast. He founded the Blue Ridge Bicycle Club, who has carried on the legacy of the Artie Levin Memorial Ride for several years. Exercise was a serious business for Artie, and he was much more than a guy who merely liked to ride. He lifted weights in the Roanoke YMCA until the day he died. Well into his 70s, his weekly routine included 150 miles of cycling, 15 miles running and 5 miles swimming. He competed in, and won, his age group in triathlons decades after most adults have given up for good on the strenuous stuff.Artie came to Roanoke during World War II, and worked as a flight instructor at Woodrum Field (now Roanoke Regional Airport). He made his true mark on the city starting in 1961 when he began an exercise show, “Mr. Fitness”. It was small town, often corny, and viewers loved every minute. Artie also wrote a daily exercise column for The Roanoke Times whose plainly stated purposed was to “help men, women and children to enjoy life to its most exciting potential instead of settling for mere existence.” He died in 1996, at age 82.
i know what i’ll be doing in the warm weather in about…7 minutes
anyone gotta light?
I’ve seen more of Botetourt County than I really need to in one lifetime.
Me, I’m going to be picking trash out of the river with the Rivanna Conservation Society tomorrow. http://www.rivannariver.org/home.html
Tomorrow, Avett Bros & DBT’s…tho that is more of a Muse thing than a ‘villian thing
Tonight marks the grand return of…ROCKBAND ON THE MALL
Tonight – Friday the 19th at 7PM in the Pavilion
Come enjoy and participate in the wonderment that is:
ANOTHER FRIDAY AFTER SEVEN
Be dazzled at the be-wigged neighborhood toughs as they sing, drum, and strum their way into rock greatness. Join in the festivities. Do an in-air rock split.
/this is for reals.
duckduckgoose: I will too be at Zinc for the Straight Punch to the Crotch Obama fundraiser
ok, been waiting over 6 hours for a light – am I being ignored?
/so feeling not the love
huzzah, 434, I’ll make sure to say hi to you.
/will be the one walking around saying hi
i just want to make sure that everybody knows the avett brothers are opening for drive by truckers at the pavilion tonight, and i expect to see all of you there.
read more on muse:
http://cvillemuse.com/2008/09/16/drive-by-truckers-after-party-saturday-at-club-r2/
@17: The one thing parlie and I can agree upon (this is known as The Avett Brothers Comity) and I have to be out of town for work. Screw you, parlie.
Avetts at Pavilion.
Parlie, what are those guys doing now?–they confuse me. i loved their album that has every song set as a letter to different girls, but then when i excitedly coughed up 80 bucks to be at MerleFest largely to see THEM play, they took the stage with sets of what sounded like 70s hair-band glam R&R. I walked out, forgive me.
Have they settled on a sound, and if so, which is it?
I want to see them, but can’t hack an Iron Maiden show.
i love The Gleam!
tell me they are back in the fold with bands like Rural Alberta Advantage, and I’m there. Tell me they rock-out and i’ll go blow bubbles through a straw in my roommates’ fishtank all evening.
and i’ll go blow bubbles through a straw in my roommates’ fishtank
That euphemism is a new one by me, I tell you what.
/yes I’m aware my name is still backwards; no I don’t care
roommate’s,sorry.
perhaps less of a neologism if it were more grammatically/orthographically correct?
@19 i can’t say that they’ve settled on a sound, no. that’s part of what i like about them, the incredible range of music they can cover in one set. they have added a member to the band named joe kwon; he rocks out on a cello. it took me some getting used to and i called for his dismissal in the beginning, but for some reason they didn’t listen to me. i was astonished.
@20 the gleam is a great album for those who prefer the slow, melodic, sentimental songs. so is the second gleam. if you’ve ever seen them live though, you’ll be confused and think you bought an album by the wrong artists. other albums have a few slow songs like that, but also show off the brothers’ musical roots in metal (except they do it with a banjo, guitar, upright bass, and a kick drum).
but to me, the best part of the avett brothers is watching the songs evolve over time onstage, from one year to the next. the rendition of “denouncing november blue” i heard last night in roanoke resembled renditions of years past only in terms of lyrics.
the only person i’ve ever met who didn’t like this band was shenanigans.
@18 i forgot to mention one thing. which is screw you, yelnats.
whatever happened to that Shenanigans?
Has the Box opened yet?
/see you tonight at the show parlie!
@8 Hey uva non-d, that was a nice tribute to Artie Levin. how cool he was. I love cycling but the notice comes too late for me to ride this one but enjoyed knowing more about it…Have fun there!!
how i spent my lovely weather:
mountain biking at walnut creek park
reading on my porch
[this isn't outside, but it was still amazing] dining at arirang, the new korean/japanese place in the old ludwig’s space
wining at enoteca
[also not outside, but still] ice skating at the ice park
[also not outside, but chill] chocolate fondue and martinis at the melting pot
post-chocolate coma, i’m sitting on my porch pajama-blagging before returning to reading. god, i love fall…
ew, i hate it, it’s all “cool” and stuff
/love to sweat – hey, it’s virginia, ya’ll
the only good thing about fall is football. period.
Happy Fall ya’ll!
/really tomorrow, but it feels like it today!
//parlie, was that you puking behind the trash cans after the avett bros show?
///dave
dude, who starts a show exactly on time? who? The damn Avetts that’s who. couldn’t bring myself to pay full price when I was 25 minutes late and didn’t know how long they would play. sounded amazing from outside the gates, though. dammit.
/dave!
dude, who starts a show exactly on time?
I’ve noticed this about Pavilion shows in general. It’s like the one benefit of the noise ordinance: bands aren’t allowed to play at “show o’clock”; everyone—band and audience—just agrees that it really will start at 7pm.
not exactly a show review, but a good look nevertheless at the band in question. shaun at muse delivers a review of their latest album here: http://cvillemuse.com/2008/09/20/the-avett-brothers-second-gleam-reviewed/
also not a show review, but awesome photoshere. fuck, I’m sad I missed this.
will check out the new album, i think the music blogs are full of mp3s, certainly raving about AB generally and the new one specifically–glad a good show here for you guys, sorry i missed it—would have made up for the baffling Merlefest performance (’twas like going to see Phish only to discover Trey had left the vaccuum cleaner in their hotel-room).
@36 when was this disappointing merlefest?
that banjo player brother is hott.
this weekend was awesome, went to two parties, both at lovely virginia estate type locales, both gratifying in too many ways to describe here. Happy fall, ya’ll
/as long as it aint’ cool…
lovin’ the indian summer – i just love hawt virginia weather
@37, parlie.
disappointing would be going too far, really—it was great—they’re always great. Just that as above i was shocked by Avett Bros, not knowing their sound was evolving so drastically, to hear them play like a completely different band from all i’d heard to date (it was the last Merle, back in the Spring or whenever). Carolina Chocolate Drops and a few peppy girl-bands on side-stages stole the show.
i bootlegged some of Merle, but haven’t listened to any of the files. i’ll try to dig them up, see if i can burn you a CD of Avett performance if i got what i saw of it (30-45 mins before i left in search of off-festival alcohol).