So, you consider yourself pretty knowledgeable about Charlottesville’s music scene.

Even before the Virginia Festival of the Book held its press conference to announce the 2009 lineup, Nancy Damon started talking to me about Debbie Wiener.

Horton Foote died Wednesday.

Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on with her smile, but it was her gruff boss who made television history.

Where has all the music gone?

Anybody who has been to the Virginia Film Festival in the past handful of years is familiar with the Adrenaline Film Project.

I don’t remember how old I was when I saw my favorite movie. It was sometime between the first and third grades.

It’s been an unforgettable week. And tonight will be no exception.

It’s a buzz. A buzz that has been humming with a purpose since Election Day.

Tommy Garrett, when he’s not back home in Buckingham County, spends a lot of his time in Los Angeles, where he has been — among other things — writing an entertainment column for the Canyon News in Beverly Hills.

They play swing, they play Motown, they play disco.

There is always something fun to do in this town. And sometimes you don’t need a lot of money to go out and have a good time with your loved ones.

James Taylor and Carly Simon are two of the most recognized names in the music business. Between them, the once-married couple sold millions upon millions of records and won more Grammys than four people can carry. They also had two very talented children, one of whom will be at Gravity Lounge Sunday night.

It was 34 degrees when I woke up this morning.

There was a pretty big lineup of films at Regal Downtown last weekend. Barry Sisson put his locally made film, “Familiar Strangers,” head to head with the likes of “Soul Men,” “W,” “Secret Life of Bees,” “Burn After Reading,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” “Rocknrolla” and the ever-popular “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”

It doesn’t take a secret agent to know who’s slipping into movie theaters this week.

Juan Mandelbaum and Richard Herskowitz have been friends for years.

It’s almost here.

Next Thursday, the stars, the directors, the producers all roll into town for the 21st annual Virginia Film Festival.

I have been waiting for eight years.

It’s all beginning to fall into place.

It isn’t enough that Paul Reisler and Terri Allard just finished up their most recent songwriting workshop with a pair of concerts two weeks ago. The talented musicians have kicked it into overdrive with four events over the next nine days.

UVa alumna returns to direct “Some Girl(s)“

Kids can say the darnedest things.

I just heard about a concert that is coming up next Friday.

Way back in the day — the late ’90s to be exact — there was a young man who wrote about the music scene here in Charlottesville.

Is anyone else tired?

There’s still time to enter the Greene County Fair’s demolition derby, but you can’t be a “possum.“

If memory serves, a varietal is a wine made of mainly one variety of grape.

Easters in July.

Stephanie Rooker is coming home. Temporarily.