A late UVA rally kept Virginia Tech’s 78-75 victory in Blacksburg from being a slam dunk, but a loss is still a loss. With conference play now in full swing, UVA men’s basketball team (7-6, 1-1 ACC) has to find some swagger to run with the fast-paced Tar Heels of North Carolina when they […]
Madison Sandy Age: 23 Hometown: Richmond Year: Grad student Concentration: Sociology What’s in your backpack? Birthday card for brother, shredded wheat in Ziploc bag, index cards, notebook, Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America’s Most Important Idea, Eclipse gum, Starbucks gift card, lip balm, cell phone. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com. […]
Sida Png Age: 21 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Nan Jing, China Major: Math What’s in your backpack? Pepperidge Farm butter cookies, wallet, beef flavor Nissin Cup Noodles, empty plastic UVA Bookstore bag, pens, Getting Started with MATLAB 7: A Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
The inside headline for last week’s cover story, “City missteps,” is inadvertently misleading, as it implies that the story contains more criticisms than questions about the city’s Downtown Mall rebricking project. The inside headline should have been the same one that appeared on the cover, “City misstep?”
The other night, we learned from our friends, Continental regulars, that saying “one with” will get you “one house margarita with salt.” We then deployed this new knowledge repeatedly. Somewhere amid the ensuing mayhem, we also ate about half of a spinach and mushroom enchilada—the other half made for delicious leftovers for next day’s lunch—and […]
Richard Wiggans Job title: Director of finance for Albemarle County Resides in: Crozet Has worked for the county for: 5 years Best of times: The opportunities to help people directly. “Much of what the financial department does is administrative, so those times that we get to render a direct service is nice. Raising funds for […]
Due to a proofreading error, in last week’s Arts picks, the write-up for the play The Santaland Diaries [“Holiday freakin’ cheer”] was printed twice. As much as we approve of the extra promotion of such a great production at the American Shakespeare Center, we greatly regret that it resulted in the exclusion of the write-up […]
Chad Mizelle Age: 19 Year: Freshman Hometown: Newport News Major: Undeclared What’s in your backpack? Laptop, iPod, empty Mountain Dew bottle, notebook, pens, pencils, Kashi TLC Chewy Granola Bar, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life.
Poking around the elegant new foyer of TJ’s house—the visitor center, that is, which recently opened—we got some education, browsed some souvenirs, and topped off the afternoon with a hot coffee and a chocolate chip peanut butter bar from the cafe, which is run by your buddies at Brix. They’re still doing their gourmet thing […]
Evans Finger Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: System engineering What’s in your backpack? Headphones, laptop, laptop charger, pencils, planner, calculator, graphing calculator, econ class ticker, various textbooks: Economics; Physics for Engineers and Scientists; Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical and Computer Engineers. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send […]