What’s in your backpack?

Alex Solomon   Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Majors: Spanish/Biology Hometown: Falls Church, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Sperry Top-Sider shoes, Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, class book and notebook for Spanish 312, iPod, tie, prescription medicine, calculator, cell phone, highlighters, pencils, pens, Neosporin, tissues, Band-Aids. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.  

January 2009: Get Real

It’s one definition of a bad mail day: Some Charlottesville homeowners have received letters from their mortgage companies informing them their home equity lines of credit have been “suspended” due to a “significant decline” in the value of their homes. If it’s happened to you, don’t panic. The Man is not going to come and […]

A hard rain falls [October 27]

Saturday morning lifted the spirits (and, most likely, the self-imposed shower restrictions) of more than a few citizens as the heavens opened up and soaked our city with a resounding downpour. Which was presumably followed by a slight sight of relief and more than a few half-hour showers. From Friday, October 26, until Saturday morning—roughly […]

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PRIVACY POLICY Portico Publications, Ltd. is publisher of C-Ville Weekly in Charlottesville, VA (c-ville.com), Free Times in Columbia, SC (free-times.com), and Metro Spirit in Augusta, GA (metrospsirit.com). Portico Publications, Ltd. is firmly committed to privacy on the Internet. We take all privacy concerns seriously and want to make every effort to address them. For this […]

C-VILLE WEEKLY SEEKS

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U-Hall ’91 revisited

William Cocke: “In a lot of ways it was a typical U-Hall show. The acoustics aren’t that good in there, the acoustics were never that great. “I’m probably the only one, but I liked ‘Joey.’ I’ve always liked that song. It’s about a mobster who gets whacked at a Clam Bar. It was off of […]