Parallax Project and Oenoverse co-founder and UVA School of Data Science associate director of career connections and community engagement Reggie Leonard shares thoughts on how to spend a day in Charlottesville: When I think about my perfect Charlottesville Day, I’ll give myself the constraint of a weekday/workday. I love unexpectedly warm days, when I’m working […]
Again this year, C-VILLE asked readers to capture the beauty, agony, or mystery of love—in just 17 syllables. They signed, sealed, and delivered haikus that both broke our hearts and put them back together. Here’s our winner and 10 runners-up. Happy Valentine’s Day! FIRST PLACE The wise wind sighs, timeTo soar, sweetest butterfly;I’ll never let […]
This Halloween, we asked you to submit your creepiest, spookiest, most nightmare-inducingest two-sentence horror stories and you delivered a collection nothing short of terrifying. One thing’s for sure: Kids make great fodder for scary tales (and mirrors, too!). We gathered our 11 favorites, which will be performed by Live Arts actors on our social media […]
For this year’s We Are C-VILLE, we asked several Charlottesvillians to write love letters to our city. The writers had the freedom to talk about whatever they wanted, in whatever form they would like. Here are five perspectives penned by David Plunkett, Miller Murray Susen, Richelle Claiborne, Michael Payne, and Edwina Herring. A vault full of treasures […]
Love is in the air! To celebrate, we asked you to submit Valentine’s Day haiku that summed up the season—and you delivered. Here’s the contest winner, plus 10 more 17-syllable poems that got our hearts beating. Winner The geese in a V… Streaked, honked, to the low slung sun. Did we love the sky? by […]
This month, we asked you to scare our staff with your most terrifying two-sentence horror stories. We received tons of submissions—imaginative, evocative, spine-tingling, funny, and tragic. Truly, you captured the spirit of the season. Below are the top 10 stories we read, which will be performed by the actors at Live Arts. (Check our social […]