What are you currently working on? Well, I am working on a series of figurative pieces. These are etchings and ink drawings, one of which I was working on when you called, an ink drawing on a white box that I did a figurative piece with, drawing from a model with the image underneath a […]
All the presents in the world won’t keep UVA President John Casteen from stepping down in August. Last week, the head ’Hoo was gifted with a tray of cupcakes bearing his likeness (see above), the Piedmont Virginia Community College Medallion for his support of the school, and an elm tree, which will be planted near […]
You think it’s going to be such an ordeal, this business of getting healthier and living better. You’ll have to trade in your sedan for a bike, give up your favorite TV shows, eschew the brew entirely, and in general become a bore. T’ain’t so! READ MORE Going to health: Or, How I learned to […]
Six local medical professionals tell you how to get (or stay!) healthy.
THIS YEAR’S STARS: • Dahlia Lithwick, Supreme Court Columnist • Fifth Congressional District Seat • Maurice Cox, Architect • Francesca Conte, Ultramarathon Runner • Jack Fisk, Production Designer • Kevin Crowe, Large-scale Potter • Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science • Emily Hodson Pelton, Winemaker [with video!] • Brad Wilcox, Sociologist • Jaffray Woodriff, […]
While her artful analysis is typically reserved for the nine minds of the nation’s highest court, Dahlia Lithwick turned her attention to her book collection last fall. When liberal Justice John Paul Stevens retires from the Supreme Court, Charlottesville and the rest of the country will still have court correspondent Dahlia Lithwick, who covered John […]
In 2008, Tom Perriello’s victory against six-term Republican incumbent Virgil Goode was one of the great upsets in Virginia politics. The freshman congressman defeated Goode by a mere 727 votes after a Goode-called recount. The past year has brought unprecedented attention to the Fifth Congressional District and its freshman occupant, Tom Perriello, who ranks among […]
SEE MORE Click here to read a recent article on Maurice Cox in C-VILLE’s ABODE. Maurice Cox has mastered several fields in his career: architect, professor, planner, politician and urban designer. When Cox served as mayor of the City of Charlottesville for two years—from 2002 to 2004—he promoted democracy in design, the idea that all residents in […]
SEE MORE Click here to watch the pilot episode of "Run For Your Lives," a reality show starring Francesca Conte and Russell Gill. Success, says Francesca Conte, is having a job where running isn’t restricted only to the lunch hour. It’s no wonder then that, while the 37-year-old has logged more than 2,000 miles running in ultramarathons […]
SEE MORE Click here to see footage of the tree from Tree of Life being relocated. “Nobody makes canvas tents anymore,” says Jack Fisk, but that’s not exactly true. The Academy Award-nominated production designer is in Los Angeles—at work on a new film titled Water For Elephants, starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon—creating a circa-1931 big top. A […]