NEW C-VILLE COVER STORY: Hand-made in Charlottesville
From expert calligraphers and tattoo artists to typewriter and eyeglass repairmen, Charlottesville is home to plenty of people we can only call handy
Checking in with William Wylie
What are you working on right now? Recently, I have been working on the files for a new book of photographs taken along Route 36 in Kansas. Flood Editions will be publishing the monograph of these pictures next spring. I basically drove back and forth along this two-lane highway over four years whenever I traveled […]
Local search intensifies as Morgan Harrington's remains are found [with video]
More than 100 days after 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was spotted on the Copeley Road Bridge
Checking in with Steph Finn
What are you working on right now? I am about to start Cabaret at Four County Players, and I’ll be playing Sally Bowles. Tell us about your day job. I work at Bittersweet Clothing in the Glass Building. I love it. I’m basically there every day, sometimes half days, sometimes full days. I’m into […]
Readers respond to previous issues
Answering the need Regarding your January 5 article, “Will Work for Meds,” the good news that was missing from the story is that since November 2007, United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area has had our Medication Assistance Caseworker, Helen Frye, at Region Ten nearly five days a week. Our RxRelief Prescription Assistance Program helps low-income, uninsured […]
UVA versus Michigan, by the numbers
Total student population University of Virginia: 21,057 University of Michigan: 56,857 (all campuses) Total operating budget University of Virginia: $2.25 billion (through June 2010) University of Michigan: $5.42 billion (all campuses), $1.5 billion overseen by Sullivan in 2009 Number of employees University of Virginia: 15,128 full-time University of Michigan: 9,266 instructional staff; 30,654 non-instructional (all […]
Checking in with Lisa Russ Spaar
What are you currently working on? At the moment, I’m reading and responding to a number of student projects from two seminars I taught this semester, so I’m devoting a lot of time and energy to finding ways to honor the work they’ve done. What is UVA poet Lisa Russ Spaar currently listening to? […]
What's old is new again
Recycled cardboard deer trophy from Galen A. Wright of Cardboard Safari. $52 at Blue Ridge Eco Shop. Vintage reproduction Chippendale bench reupholstered in burlap. $895 at And George. Giraffe made of 100 percent […]
More opportunities arise for locals to help Haiti
Following last Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake, many locals began to reach out to check the status of friends and family in Haiti, and offer assistance.
Checking in with Madeline and Humberto Sales
We’re working on some recordings that we started in Brazil, a few compositions of our own for our next album.