Dana Wheeles Age: 30 Year: Graduate student Concentration: Art history Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Dana Wheeles What’s in your backpack? Keys on a carabiner, leather wallet, iPod, headphones, 8 cents in change, pens, Volkswagen key fob, lip gloss, Sharpie, MacBook Pro attachments. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
The Dark Knight (PG-13, 140 minutes) Just as Batman (Christian Bale) makes real headway cleaning up Gotham’s streets, with help from a top cop (Gary Oldman) and an aggressive D.A. (Aaron Eckhart), some joker calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger) decides to mastermind a terrifying criminal rampage. Out comes the heavy artillery–and the moviegoers who […]
Last Tuesday, Italian wine and panini bar enoteca unveiled a new 95-bottle wine list, and last Monday afternoon, the staff at enoteca set about the arduous task of tasting all 40 new wines by the glass appearing on that list.
Patrick Critzer’s Hamdingers cart is a seasonal pleasure, so we bellied up to make the most of it. Almost as good as the roast vegetable sandwich was the pleasure of watching Critzer put it together, armed with the tools and ingredients of his tidily arranged cart. The meal itself was savory and warm, a sub […]
Jordan Taylor Age: 31 Year: Graduate student Jordan Taylor Concentration: EnglishHometown: RichmondWhat’s in your backpack? Moleskine notebook, Landscape and Race in the United States by Richard Schein, bandanna, glass, 25 cent flipbook from a kid at Milano, keys, CD from WTJU, map of MoMA, condoms, dust jacket for Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson, Monument Avenue […]
Worked for the library for: 3 years Resides in: Albemarle County Job title: Circulation assistant. Downing checks books in and out, organizes books on the shelves, and issues library cards. Best of times: Being around others. “I’m able to help people. I love to see the children in here over the summer. It’s better that […]
The Dark Knight (PG-13, 140 minutes) Just as Batman (Christian Bale) makes real headway cleaning up Gotham’s streets, with help from a top cop (Gary Oldman) and an aggressive D.A. (Aaron Eckhart), some joker calling himself the Joker (Heath Ledger) decides to mastermind a terrifying criminal rampage. Out comes the heavy artillery—and the moviegoers who […]
During last summer’s typical local restaurant business famine, Jinx Kern “was living on credit cards,” he tells us. This summer is a different story.
We considered a mere take-out pastry to fuel up on a recent Wednesday morning, but instead went for the gold: a real sit-down breakfast in which we stuffed ourselves to the gills with Bluegrass’ Number 5. It’s a groaning plate of scrambled eggs generously stuffed with spinach, tomatoes, green peppers and cheese, accompanied by good […]