The snowstorm brought bad news. Tuesday’s varsity basketball game, which would decide whether the Blue Ridge Barons or Miller School of Albemarle Mavericks would land the No. 1 seed in postseason play, was postponed to Thursday. For Blue Ridge seniors like Colby White, a 6’3″ guard, the snow delay meant two things. One, White and […]
The University of Virginia is moving ahead with an initiative to house more students on Grounds, and one component has shifted slightly this month. A subcommittee of the Board of Visitors is scheduled to hold a special meeting February 19 to approve the schematic design for a $160 million project to build hundreds of bedrooms […]
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month would shut down the Federal Executive Institute, a leadership training center based in Charlottesville since 1968. Located on a 14-acre campus about a mile from the University of Virginia, the FEI has trained more than 30,000 senior federal employees over the past 57 years. […]
From the border wall to expedited deportations, hard-line immigration policy has been a priority for President Donald Trump for years. Amid the barrage of executive orders and immigration policy changes from Washington, D.C., local organizations and individuals find themselves in both familiar and uncharted waters. Charlottesville is hundreds of miles from the nearest land border […]
Albemarle County Police responded to multiple reports of shots fired at the Harris Teeter grocery store in Crozet at approximately 1:35pm on February 17. Two people, including the shooter, were pronounced dead at the scene. A third victim was transported to the University of Virginia Medical Center, where she ultimately succumbed to her injuries. The […]
Terry Thorsen is a self-described technologist and co-founder of ChartIQ, a Charlottesville-based charting provider for the financial services industry. Seeking to apply his experience from the tech sector to more creative endeavors, Thorsen recently wrote The Germans Have a Word for It, a speculative fiction novel that will be published this month. His debut book […]
The McGill/McHale Trio formed in 2014 when brothers Anthony and Demarre McGill—clarinetist and flutist, respectively—were joined by pianist Michael McHale to perform at Bowling Green University in Ohio. Since then, the acclaimed artists—Anthony was the New York Philharmonic’s first Black principal musician and a social activist who won the Avery Fisher Prize in 2020—have combined […]
Built on a base of rock, Latin jazz, and Americana music, Richmond’s Brookhouse blends a bilingual body of work carried by driving rhythms and sultry strings. Featuring a mix of acoustic and electric songs, English and Spanish lyrics, and earnest, mysterious songwriting, the band celebrates a mission to demonstrate that we all contain multitudes. See […]
