Greased Lightning

From Rock Star To … Rock Star

Sept. 14 “Rock Band 2” (Xbox 360, PS 3).  Music and rhythm with simulated instruments. Bang drums, croon into a mic, wail on guitar....

Prodigal Daughter

Aimee Mann's show at the National is a bit of a homecoming, but she's been gone too long to know any good places to eat.

 

The End of Summer (Blockbusters)

Sept. 12: “Burn After Reading” Brad Pitt and John Malkovich match wits in a comic thriller about a CIA employee (Malkovich) blackmailed by...

Intelligent Design

The latest from the creator of “SimCity” gets all evolutionary.

Book Club

Sept. 8 “Ballistics: Poems” by Billy Collins (Random House, $24). The two-term U.S. poet laureate does his thing: borrowing from ordinary life to write...

Re-Shooting the War

Photographer Thomas Daniel went from Vietnam's live fire to the Civil War's re-enacted fire.

Meanwhile … Our critics offer their wish lists for fall shows.

Pop/Hip-hopConcert booking is a slippery business. Right now, it's hard to say just how many great shows could come to Richmond this fall....

Page Turners

When the leaves change, writers and their events seem to crawl out of the woodwork. Kicking off a string of local literary events, the...

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