Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

We’re now into the third 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, in light of our cover story about […]

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, for those of you who had some […]

Hoos back from the dead

  Mike Scott stuffs 2 of his 10 points in front of a roaring crowd at the JPJ February 18. After a dismal eight-game losing streak, the UVA men’s basketball team (and Dave Leitao’s coaching career) leaped from its coffin last week with back-to-back home games, not only beating No. 12 ranked Clemson 85-81 in […]

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 […]