Entertainment intro video by Okay Yellow BIG VENUE John Paul Jones Arena Runner-up: Charlottesville Pavilion The bigger the better, we always say. Apparently, that’s what you say, too, as JPJ—the biggest of this town’s big venues—wins again. Headliners like Phish, Jimmy Buffett and Taylor Swift surely have something to do with the arena’s popularity, but […]
Services intro video by Okay Yellow DOCTOR Greg Gelburd of Downtown Family Healthcare Runner-up: Bruce Campbell Readers have put Greg Gelburd ahead of the pack for six years now, but that doesn’t mean they want him all to themselves. In fact, for a good cause, they’re happy to share, as they did last fall when […]
Charlottesville filmmakers popularize an image of the city, without a single mention of TJ, the Grish or DMB The silver screen has always been celebrated for its ability to turn ordinary folks into larger than life characters. By “ordinary folks,” of course we mean well-connected Hollywood types with rock hard abs, chiseled features and few, […]
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.