By Mary Jane Gore The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round—until COVID hits. And since the start of the pandemic, city and county bus systems have encountered many bumps and unexpected curves. Before COVID, the city averaged about 2,600 bus riders per day. Currently, that number is down to 1,033, and some buses […]
Youngkin at heart Businessman Glenn Youngkin triumphed in the Virginia GOP’s convoluted gubernatorial primary late on Monday night. Throughout his campaign, the candidate styled himself as a political outsider. Before jumping in the race, Youngkin spent 25 years working for an inside-the-beltway private equity firm called The Carlyle Group, which came under scrutiny for its […]
Break out: Part visual album, part queer drama, and part live experience, The Wandering is a new way of experiencing theatrical art. Created by Charlottesville native and Albemarle High School alum Jeremy Weiss, the production is inspired by the music of Franz Schubert, and uses a queer lens to examine the love and pain that […]
Hot chocolate: Food nourishes the magical realism in the 1992 international sensation Like Water For Chocolate. When Tita is forbidden from marrying her true love Pedro due to her place in the family lineage, he marries her older sister. Tita becomes a cook, and channels her undying passion for her brother-in-law into meals with special […]
Mom genes: Did Mother’s Day sneak up on you like a helicopter parent? Instead of searching for a last-minute gift, take mom to Craft Cville’s third annual outdoor Mother’s Day Market, where she can choose from an array of goods from local artisans and vintage curators. Savor a piece of cake from Sliced while perusing […]
By Haines Eason Working from home. Telehealth. Online shopping. Which pandemic trends will remain, and which will fade? Charlottesville native Kate Lambert, a comedian whose resume includes The Second City and Chicago Improv act The Katydids (which sold the hit “Teachers” to TV Land), is part of something that producer Jill Paiz-Bourque of the livestream […]
“Speed is of the essence” This week, eight former members of Charlottesville’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials, and Public Spaces released a letter urging the city to immediately shroud the downtown statues of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and to take steps to ensure that the monuments are permanently removed from […]
C-VILLE Weekly took home 12 Virginia Press Association awards in 2020’s News and Advertising Contest (full results here). We offer hearty congratulations to the other publications in our competition group, and, most importantly, we express our deepest gratitude to the people who shared their stories with us over the last year. News C-VILLE’s coverage of […]
You know that when we say 10 feet or less, we really mean 10 feet or less The truck-eating bridge on the Corner has dispatched 15 trucks since the beginning of 2019, according to CBS19 meteorologist and dedicated truck-tracker Travis Koshko. You’d think the drivers would learn, but they never do: Like clockwork, delivery after […]
Journey by foot: Keith Lee now calls central Virginia home, but his teaching and choreography work began at New York’s storied High School of Performing Arts, and was followed by decades of dance artistry everywhere from the American Ballet Theatre to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As artist laureate, resident choreographer, and director of diversity […]