Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week we revisit some music news to jive […]
What's in your backpack?
Greg Casar Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: Politics What’s in your backpack? Laptop, laptop cord, orange highlighter, pen, class notes, beaded bracelet from Guatemala, hacky sack from Mexico, Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegía, dinner knife, flyer for global development major, Kant: Political Writings, Ziploc bag with half-eaten orange. C-VILLE welcomes news […]
February 2009: What's New
Greener pleasures If it looks like a duck, and vibrates like a duck, it must be…a green sex toy. Sexy time with your honey may not be a prime occasion to think about toxic chemicals and carbon footprints, but you can be greener when you’re buying your sex toys. That’s the idea behind Holistic Wisdom, […]
29N plan returns as road funding disappears
Even though the woefully underfunded Virginia Department of Transportation has had to cut $2 billion from its budget since June and allocates zero dollars for new road projects over the next five years, local planners are finally returning their attention to the controversial Places29 master plan. Is this Places29 rendering of a renewed Albemarle Square […]
February 2009: Comfort To Go
Lauren Perpetua Age: 25 Occupation: Marketing Manager at Panera Bread Between work and pleasure travel, “I’m constantly either in my car or staying in hotels,” says Lauren Perpetua. Her job has her shuttling back and forth to Memphis as well as a string of Virginia towns, and she and her husband travel for fun, too: […]
February 2009: Underneath it all
Indulge your weekend fantasies. Meredith Coe wears a black babydoll and thong set from Victoria’s Secret ($58); Vanessa thigh highs by Levante ($10), “Le petit secret” mono suspenders by Maison Close ($16), both from Derriere de Soie; 1950s rhinestone and pearl screwback earrings ($22) and a knotted pearl necklace used as a bracelet ($25) from […]
February 2009: We Caught You Looking Sweet!
Morgan Rowe Occupation: Sales assistant at CBS 19 Where we spotted her: SUGAR New Year’s Eve party at Mas Style sense: Morgan prefers the simple, classic look with lots of black and white, and says Jennifer Aniston is a style inspiration. She usually shops J. Crew and Nordstroms, and got everything she’s wearing here at […]
We Ate Here
Dr. Ho’s is its own little universe down there in North Garden. It’s packed, for example, on Tuesday nights, and one gets a sense of a close-knit world that embraces both sides of the counter. We stopped in after work for takeout—nothing fancy, just a large pizza with garlic, tomato and beef—and were comforted not […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week we revisit some old Downtown construction blues […]