Tag: Arts
Entertainment venues reopen in phase three
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
For the first time since Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) issued a stay at home order on March 30, local theaters...
Live from quarantine: Local arts organizations adapt to social distancing
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
On Tuesday evening, the night singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton was scheduled to perform at the Birchmere, the seats and stage at...
Falling “Head Over Heels:” Monumental Theatre combines 16th-century drama with Go-Go’s...
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
On its surface, “Head Over Heels” shouldn’t work.
A 16th-century romance rendered in period-appropriate prose, mashed together with the instantly recognizable...
City creatives: Vi Trinh
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Vi Trinh can’t stop thinking about the internet.
As a post-grad artist-in-residence at the Torpedo Factory, Trinh is fascinated by the...
City creatives: Stephen Lally
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Behind a house in Del Ray in a shed-turned-home-studio, Stephen Lally leans over his pottery wheel, sculpting and shaping art...
City creatives: Rosemary Covey
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
Art has never come easy to Rosemary Covey.
The long-time wood engraver and painter has spent the last 40 years at...
Local crowdfunded indie film, ‘The Legacy Sessions,’ bridges generation gap
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
The film industry has ballooned into something ungainly and unsustainable for filmmakers who are trying to create a project without...
13th Alexandria Film Festival brings record numbers
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
More than 1,000 cinephiles flocked to the Charles Beatley Library and AMC Hoffman Center 22 for the 13th annual Alexandria...
Deeyah Khan attempts to understand white supremacists in “White Right: Meeting...
By Luke Anderson | [email protected]
In her 2017 documentary, “White Right: Meeting the Enemy,” Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan works her way under the skin of...
“The Spy Being Home Plate” details the unbelievable life of a...
By Denise Dunbar | [email protected]
Moe Berg was a brilliant man, and Aviva Kempner is an amazing filmmaker. So it’s unsurprising that Kempner’s movie about...
