Sam Bush of The Hill and Wood and Colin Killalea (musician and producer with White Star Sound) stopped by C-VILLE’s office for a C-VILLE Live session this week to play a few songs off the band’s new record, When You Go.
C-VILLE’s Arts and Living reporter Erin O’Hare chatted with Bush about the making of the album and the thought process behind it.
Watch the video below to see a live version of “The Tide Decides” off When You Go. To see the full C-VILLE Live session, go to our Facebook page.
In this C-VILLE Live video, we sat down with millennials—both “old” and “young” millennials—to discuss the perception of their generation, what they want to be known for and what the bring to the table in terms of the future of society. Both C-VILLE staff and people we interviewed for this week’s cover feature sat in on the discussion.
VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS
2:00: What our panelists think about the words people used to describe millennials
4:10: Millennials are concerned about what jobs will be available when they graduate
5:25: What do you think of when you hear the word millennial?
8:07: Discussion of TIME covers from other generations
11:17: We read what readers said the legacy of the millennial generation will be
15:24: Effect of technology on millennials’ jobs
18:49: What do you think this generation will be known for and what do you want it to be known for?
22:20: What millennials are using social medio for
25:11: The important of cell phones to the next generation and the millennial generation
28:46: Millennials are a nostalgic generation
32:05: Why do millennials document everything with photos?
35:27: How do millennials get their news?
41:03: Print versus digital: Do you still read hard copies?
43:58: The use of laptops in the classroom
We’ve all heard the buzzwords, both positive and negative, used to describe the millennial generation: digital natives, entitled, tech-savvy, purpose-driven, lazy. But how does that generation feel about its perception? And what do others who interact with millennials have to say about them?
We posed those questions to members of the millennial generation as well as people who work closely with them in this week’s feature story.
And at 11:30am Thursday, March 24, we are sitting down with a group of millennials to talk about their generation in a C-VILLE Live roundtable discussion. What are their goals? What do they think their generation’s legacy will be? Do they embrace the term millennials?
Watch the live stream video of the conversation on Periscope on our Twitter page: @cvillenews_desk.
The Virginia Festival of the Book, in its 22nd year, is holding events throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle County through Sunday, March 20. Read more about some of this year’s featured authors.
Click on the link below to watch our C-VILLE Live chat with Preston Lauterbach, author of Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis, and Jon Lohman, director of the Virginia Program for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Video overview:
5:11 — Learn about Lauterbach’s main character, Robert Church, who was born a slave and became the South’s first black millionaire.
12:14 — Learn how the book’s plot evolved out of Lauterbach’s research.
13:07 — Hear how Ida B. Wells, a journalist who helped found the NAACP, “found herself” on Beale Street.
14:25 — W.C. Handy takes Beale Street to another level.
17:50 — Hear more about the Reading Under the Influence: Blues and Brews event, which takes place from 9-11pm Friday, at Champion Brewing Company.
24:35 — Learn how music first drew Lauterbach to Beale Street, a place where everything from swing to lowdown blues could be heard.
28:20 — Learn what W.C. Handy, the father of blues, and hip-hop artists today have in common.
This morning C-VILLE Weekly launched its new C-VILLE Live series with an interview with the organizers of the 28th Virginia Film Festival. Jody Kielbasa, director of the festival and vice provost of the arts for the University of Virginia, and Wesley Harris, programmer for the festival, stopped by our office this morning to answer some questions about this year’s films, the selection process and even what film fest guests have left them star-struck.
The Virginia Film Festival, presented by the University of Virginia, takes place November 5 through 8 and includes screenings of more than 130 films around town, discussions after the films with some of the films’ directors and actors, a Family Day on Saturday, an opening-night gala, a late-night wrap party and a mystery film that is a sneak preview of a major Hollywood studio release at 9pm Saturday, at The Paramount. This year the festival added three new screening venues, which amounts to 115 feature-length films.
“The very term ‘festival’ means to celebrate, and, for us, a truly full-fledged festival is a celebration of the art of film but also a celebration within our community,” Kielbasa says. This year the festival is bringing in more than 125 guest artists, filmmakers and people whom Kielbasa calls “history makers or social change agents,” such as LGBTQ activist Larry Kramer, who is the subject of a documentary being screened at the festival, Larry Kramer in Love and Anger.
In terms of the programming selections, Harris says they consider more than 1,000 films every year for entry into the festival. That’s a lot of viewing hours—and a lot of popcorn.
Watch the full interview below: