2011 Health Annual

JUMP TO: 10 ways to improve your health right now A real-life breast cancer story Mindfulness Five local guardians of wellness Gastric Bypass: 101 Five healthy lunches 10 places to run or ride What’s up with clinical trials? UVA’s cutting edge The move at Martha Jefferson How does Virginia stack up, health-wise? Connections that should […]

It's what's for dinner

Meat makeover The all-American hamburger is a) named after a German city and b) contains no ham. If thoughts like these keep you awake at night, it may be time to visit the Main Street Market’s Organic Butcher, where manager Robert Collins and his staff can hook you up with a variety of locally raised […]

Checking in with Phillip St. Ours

Rob Evans, who’s the producer on the Pantherburn record, and I have been talking for a while about starting a record label to help other bands get started in the recording process, kind of what Pantherburn just did.

Any way you slice it

  From top: Olive Thyme, Pain de Mie and Yeasted Cornbread. Bread matters If clothes make the man, then bread makes the sandwich. Too flimsy and your fillings fold under the pressure, but too crusty and your jaw begs for mercy. Albemarle Baking Company Owner Gerry Newman weighs in on this most strategic decision. For […]

Master of the art

VIDEO BY COOGAN BRENNAN In Richard Crozier’s studio behind his Preston Place home, about 1,000 of his original works line shelves and baskets on the floor. You could find a football field, lay them all out, and spend hours looking at an impressionistic map of Charlottesville, composed entirely of the many moments Crozier spent brush […]

Checking in with Matthew Farrell

What were you doing when we called? I was working on an essay for an artist book that Lydia Moyer, a local experimental video artist, is doing. It’s a collection of photographs of old houses. Mostly she does experimental video, and this is a side project. Hypocrite Press founder Matthew Ferrell says that he is […]

In one era, out the other

JUMP TO: New Year’s Eats Get fizzy with it Hem and her New Year’s on and off the skids Ask a numerologist All hail cabs! Keithing it real Mistakes can’t be unmade What to watch besides the ball The C-VILLE Weekly HQ, in the middle of a normally bustling Downtown Mall, looks right upon ground […]

What really got our goat in 2010

This year, a few stories did a number on us. In return, we decided to put a number on those same stories.  C-VILLE scrutinized Charlottesville’s landmark events, and ranked each for its impact during the last year and implications for the next. From happenings that struck our community dumb with dismay to those that rejuvenated […]