Age: 50 Occupation: Copy editor at SNL, poet SNL copy editor and poet Kendra Hamilton is no stranger to travel. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, she says her favorite trips involve her writing. She’s studied in Durham, Houston, New Orleans and once spent a six-week fellowship in Italy. Currently, she’s in Charlottesville putting […]
Age: 32 Occupation: Assistant to UVA President John T. Casteen III While Kelli Palmer may make her profession as a wrangler of affairs in and around UVA, during her off-time she is a true jet-setter, an eager traveler who gives one the impression not only that she’d like to visit every country in the […]
Shelf smartswww.smartfurniture.com We’ve never heard of "dumb" furniture, but we can still see why "smart" applies to the custom-designed residential and retail shelving featured at this site. SmartFurniture.com shows off its simple, contemporary designs while at the same time offering buyers some creative freedom. Using the online designer tool, you can click from a palette […]
It’s easy to miss the graffiti on the side of the Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea statue. You have to be pretty close to even see it—a jagged black box with lines fanning off the top that brings Chinese characters to mind. Still, it’s there, and it’s been there since 2004, when a tagger spraypainted what […]
Forgive the pun: In the local news business these days, there’s no shortage of leads on LEED. Briefly, that’s a national certification program for green—i.e., sustainable—buildings that’s setting the standards for a growing number of local projects. One recent example: Developers with the Belvedere project, an upcoming 700-unit, mixed-use neighborhood off Rio Road, told us […]
On August 7, UVA announced the creation of a new officer, the emergency preparedness director. The new position will oversee all of the University’s emergency response plans and assess its readiness in the wake of natural, epidemic or terrorist emergencies. Marge Sidebottom, the director of emergency preparedness for the UVA health system since 1993, will […]
There might be some sweet places to park illegally without consequences, but it seems that not all Charlottesville drivers are so sneaky.
On July 24, Dr. Jae Lee, a bioinformatics statistician, and Dr. Dan Theodorescu, an oncologist, announced a breakthrough algorithm (calculation method) that will predict success rates for cancer patients considering treatment options. C-VILLE spoke with Dr. Lee about this research and how it might change cancer therapy. Dr. Jae Lee and a colleague at UVA […]
What on earth? This is what we first thought when we encountered Maggie’s Soap Nuts—dried fruit from the Chinese Soapberry tree—billed as an all-natural, biodegradable replacement for chemical laundry detergents. We examined the box skeptically, plucking out a few of the brown, raisin-like things and wrinkling our noses at their distinctly unclean vinegary smell. The […]
Good news for current and future owners of energy-efficient homes: The City of Charlottesville is working to cut you a deal on your real estate tax. Following in the footsteps of Roanoke, a subcommittee of the Citizen Committee on Environmental Sustainability is at work on a proposal that would offer a tax break to homeown-ers […]