What's in your backpack?

Meg Barry Age: 20 Year: Junior Major: Politics Meg Barry Hometown: Shrewsbury, MassachusettsWhat’s in your backpack? Wallet, notebook, water bottle, mail, pens, makeup bag, sunglasses, staff name tag, cell phone, hair brush, keys, gum. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.

Capsule reviews

American Teen (PG-13, 101 minutes) What it is, folks: A filmmaker follows a few high school seniors through their final year and various social groups. Take a break from “The Hills.” Playing at Regal Downtown Mall 6 Babylon A.D. (PG-13, 90 minutes) It’s the dystopian future. Michelle Yeoh is a nun looking after a young […]

We Ate Here

Well, my goodness—a little takeout lunch from Downtown Thai turns out to be a feast and a half! A basic red curry, sure—long julienned strips of something crunchy, maybe bok choy, with carrots, green beans and tofu, and enough steamed rice to soak up a copious portion of light but fiery sauce. Maybe it was […]

What's in your backpack?

Sherri Burke Age: 26 Year: Graduate student Sherri Burke Concentration: French literature Hometown: Richmond, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Umbrella, water bottle, light sweater, folder, Nana by Émile Zola, cell, keychain, reading glasses, dental floss, hand lotion.

Corrections from the August 19 issue

The Salvation Army plans to lease this property to Mike Brown, not sell it. Due to a reporting error, we inaccurately stated in the August 19, 2008, issue that the Salvation Army is selling a former KFC [“Salvation Army sells fast food property,” Development News]. In fact, the Salvation Army has a letter of intent […]

Capsule reviews

Babylon A.D. (PG-13, 90 minutes) It’s the dystopian future. Michelle Yeoh is a nun looking after a young woman who might have a deadly virus, and Vin Diesel is a mercenary looking after himself. Many explosions may change that. Playing at Carmike Cinema 6 Bangkok Dangerous (R, 110 minutes) Danny and Oxide Pang remake their […]

Your tax dollars, at work

Worked for the county for: 3 yearsResides in: Albemarle County Job title: Principal, Woodbrook Elementary School. As principal, Sterrett ensures the safety of students while ensuring a quality education for students at the school.Best of times: Observing the excitement in others. “Seeing teachers coming in excited to be here, excited to be bringing enthusiasm and […]

September 08: News and ideas for sustainable living

  Amount due: zero One hot August day in Albemarle, a crew of workers installed an impressive number of solar panels on the roof of a 2,500-square-foot house. Thirty-six of them, in fact. They nearly cover the south roof face of this house, which is being built on a fairly ordinary lot in a small, […]

Long, strange trips

Eight travel stories by C-VILLE writers: Fresh shoes for the weary Having a devil of a time in Death Valley No tanks; I’ll have sushi Waiting for change in the Confederacy’s last capital Got parka? Hot times in dead-of-winter Chicago Praising a six-ton Jesus An overlook on paradise, Gatlinburg style One hundred pilgrims At the […]

What's in your backpack?

Emily Filler Emily Filler Age: 27 Year: Graduate student Concentration: Religious studies Hometown: Ovid, Michigan What’s in your backpack? Datebook, chapter from Berakhot from the Mishnah, The Meaning and End of Religion by Wilfred Cantwell Smith, wallet, phone, passport, keys, dental floss, highlighter, assorted medicines, teabags, gift certificate to a bookstore.