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 […]

What's in your backpack?

Trevor Piersol Age: 21 Year: Junior Hometown: Richmond Major: History What’s in your backpack? The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, Integrated Chinese textbook and workbook, notebooks for environmental science and Chinese classes, T1-83 graphic calculator, cycling headlamp, Fata Morgana DVD, pack of tissues, Sweet Mint flavor Orbit gum, highlighter, six pens, three pencils, paper […]

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 revisited Market Street Wineshop’s Robert Harllee’s secret to staying […]

Big men on campus

UVA made three notable hires last week, including naming (finally) Harry Harding the first dean of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. 

First Friday — February 6

Angelo “Interrupted Visions, Small Wonders,” aqueous painting on panels by John Hancock, 5:30-7:30pm. Art Upstairs “Love Friday,” a multimedia exhibit with a love theme, 5-8pm. The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative Audio art works from around the world by Julie Shapiro as part of “Audio February,” 6-9pm. C’ville Arts “Beachcombing,” jewelry, sun catchers, bowls and plates by […]

Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

We’re bigger, older and wiser. Over the past two decades, we’ve sometimes been well ahead of the curve, like when we projected DMB’s rise to the top, and sometimes we’ve been, well, wrong. We’ve captured people saying things they might regret later; we’ve championed the underdog (hello, Congressman Perriello!). Each week, as we celebrate our […]

Design for a new time

For this year’s Design Annual issue, we began as we usually do when brainstorming a story. We sat around a table and talked about what we thought was cool and what we thought was worthy of criticism. New buildings, old buildings, funky graphic t-shirts, pretty plantings—plenty of local designs and designers’ names came up in […]