Rec & Fitness intro video by Okay Yellow PLACE TO HIKE Humpback Rocks Runner-up: Sugar Hollow Back on top this year after a brief hiatus, Humpback Rocks prompts just one response from readers: Every day should be Hump day. The 740′ peak takes just 45 minutes to climb, but once at the top, hikers have […]
While your expertise in areas like tattoos and chiropractors awes us year after year, there are certain classes of phenomena we reserve for ourselves. When it comes to supernatural Charlottesvillians and unexplainable experiences, we rely on the group of freaks we regularly stock around the joint to tell the story. Behold The Phlash, The Man with […]
Peter Chang: The Incredible Disappearing Chef Now you see him, now you don’t! Foodies far and wide followed the elusive Peter Chang to our little hamlet earlier this year, hoping to taste just one delicious morsel of the chef’s scallion bubble pancakes. Or, at the very least, stand in the long line squished into the […]
City adopts new motto, Don’t Look Up, upon completing Second Street beautification What do you do if you’re the City of Charlottesville and there’s a hulking, haunting, skeletal symbol of economic doom smack in the center of your pride and joy (and tourist engine), the Downtown Mall? You put in some planters. Planters make things […]
What are you working on right now? Well, songs. There are a bunch of new ones that are done, but it’s been so shuffley with the boys being gone that we’re just getting around to teaching them some of the new ones, and working on new ones. That’s always very exciting. In Mister Baby, […]
Ned Oldham released several records with the Anomoanon. With multi-instrumentalist Matty Metcalf, bassist Michael Clem and drummer Brian Caputo, he performs as Old Calf. What are you working on right now? I’m just trying to finish the artwork on a Ned Oldham single, or a three-song, 7" EP, coming out on Gold Robot Records. A […]
I’m working on a large-scale multimedia project about climate change, what’s taking place in the Arctic Ocean underneath the ice.
It’s not yet 1pm, but Steve is closing in on his $30 panhandling goal. His feet bracket a black duffel bag and a blue Maxwell House coffee container with a few bills inside. He doesn’t ask for money aloud, so a potential donor must get close enough to read his sign: “Due to the economy, […]
Tell us about your day job. The Hamner Theater is my job. My paycheck comes from the Rockfish Valley Community Center, because at this point the Hamner Theater is a project of the Center. So my co-artistic director [Peter Coy] and I are on staff there. Unfortunately, my salary doesn’t reflect the hours I put […]
William Zampini charged with grand larceny, trespassing and two counts of destruction of property