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 […]
It’s uncommon enough to be really good at throwing ceramics on a potter’s wheel. How does a person become an expert in throwing pots that are the size of a first-grader? In Kevin Crowe’s case, it was a simple matter of economics. Kevin Crowe says it took a lot of trial and error to learn […]
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, UVA Computer Science professor, received a million-dollar research award from Google this February. During the first round of Google’s $5.7 million Focused Research Awards, split among 31 professors at 10 universities, Sudhanva Gurumurthi won a bit of green for his green-mindedness. Gurumurthi, an assistant professor in UVA’s Department of Computer Science who teaches […]
“My first thought when I realized we were doing pretty good with this wine,” Pelton says of the 2009 Veritas Viognier that has earned her heaps of praise, “is ‘Thank goodness I have a lot of it!’” If, when she was studying infectious diseases in the far reaches of India, Emily Pelton couldn’t imagine becoming […]
As if marriage and money weren’t complicated enough, Brad Wilcox will tell you that a recession can cut to the heart of a couple’s stability. That’s because money, apparently, leads to happiness. HEAR MORE Click here to listen to an NPR interview with Brad Wilcox on postponing parenthood. Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage Project. […]