Kenny Shreves, Race Car Builder at Werkstatt Charlottesville

Fire in the hole: Sometimes when he’s welding, stuff ends up burning. “It happens more often than you would think,” says Shreves. Typical workday? We’re always behind. We begin in the morning, and depending on where we are with the stage of the build, we start fabricating right away. On the weeks that we have […]

Family and friends of Morgan Harrington gather for memorial

MORE COVERAGE RELATED TO MORGAN HARRINGTON: Virginia State Police releases new phone number for tips Morgan Harrington’s death officially ruled a homicide Morgan Harrington’s Pantera t-shirt found near 15th Street? Reward money in Harrington case not rewarded David Bass describes finding body that is likely Morgan Harrington [with video] Anchorage Farm body, still unidentified, found […]

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 […]

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? […]