Tara Altizer Age: 22 Hometown: Nelson County Year: Senior Major: Athletic training Tara Altizer What’s in your backpack? Three notebooks, wallet, iPod, sweater, Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues by Alasdair MacIntyre, five Sharpies, four highlighters, six pens, two pencils, two packs of Post-it notes, pack of Orbitz gum, Warrior Girls: […]
Throw some dirt in the air like you just don’t care: Piedmont Virginia Community College broke ground last week on the 34,000-square-foot, $11.4 million Kluge-Moses Science Building. But even as it celebrated with symbolic shoveling, the institution faced the grim realities of the state budget belt tightening and said that it will have to […]
In an October ABODE story, “Eye of the storm,” we misstated the middle school and high school districts for the Key West neighborhood. They are Burley and Monticello. Due to a reporting error, last week’s cover story [“Can he go the distance?”] incorrectly stated that Tom Perriello lived at his parent’s house in July. He […]
Haley Ferrell Age: 20 Hometown: Richlands, Virginia Year: Junior Majors: Sports medicine, kinesiology Haley Ferrell What’s in your backpack? Umbrella, travel coffee mug, swimsuit, shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops, 19-month day planner, Strauss and Wagner sheet music, anatomy notes, notebook, four pens, an eraser, three pencils, half of a cinnamon raisin bagel wrapped in a paper […]
As everyone in our area who’s grown excited about the idea of self-sustainability knows, the time is ripe for an Eat & Drink Annual issue that focuses not only on local fare, but locally produced fare. Click through the features below and get the economic lowdown on some local farms, discover which local coffee shop […]
Many of us pick up boxes of vegetables from our CSA shares every week, but how many pick up bottles of milk? If CSAs are all the rage, then herd share operations, giving shareholders a cut of weekly fresh milk production, are a whole different animal. A rising tide of market demand for raw milk […]
For the first time, the state of Virginia has released standardized numbers about how many students are graduating from high school. The new on-time graduation rate shows how many students who entered the ninth grade actually graduated in four years, accounting for transfers. Best of all, the formula is now the same across the country, […]
Job title: Director of community attention, guiding children and families in need Has worked for the city for: 13 years Resides in: Charlottesville Best of times: Seeing alumni of his program. “It’s great when kids come back years later, and can clearly tell you what a difference the program has made in their life.” Worst […]
We feel like we ate our way through Europe in sandwich form. Layered generously with fresh avocado, Cafe Europa’s Black Sea felt decadent, but avoided over-richness with the bite of black olives, thin slices of red onion, tomato, sprouts, and a bright lemon dressing. Everything was both fresh and refreshing at this Corner hideaway, including […]
An American Carol (PG-13, 83 minutes) Director David Zucker of Airplane! fame and Scary Movie 3 infamy helms this tale of a Michael Moore-ish filmmaker (Kevin Farley) who crusades to abolish our July 4 holiday and is visited by spirits who try to persuade him that he’s an idiot. With Jon Voigt as George Washington […]