Year: Senior Age: 21 Hometown: Rome, GeorgiaMajor: Studio art and English Allison Harbin What’s in your backpack? Makeup, environmental science 101 notes, iPod, proofs from latest photography project about her Southern heritage and race in the South, a bright pink t-shirt with sentimental value, external hard drive, wallet, cell phone, balled up miniature Reese’s Cup […]
Playing its first game of the NCAA tournament, the UVA women’s basketball team breezed past the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos 86-52 on March 23 and will face Old Dominion on Tuesday night. We may have had to consult a dictionary to figure out what a Gaucho is (for the record, a rebel-rousing South American cowboy), […]
By Scott Weaver and Will Goldsmith On a day in 2003, Thomasine Wilson walked into Advance America on Madison Road in Orange with a checkbook from her newly opened account at SunTrust. Wilson had recently moved to Orange from Charlottesville when the rent on her one-bedroom apartment went up $400 a year. She’d found a […]
Worked for the county for: 11 yearsResides in: Palmyra Job title: Probate clerk. Kirshnick qualifies guardianships and conservatorships for incapacitated adults. She handles the inventory and accounts for all deceased people in the county. “I have to have a certain demeanor when working with people because they are still grieving.”Best of times: “One person I […]
Ashley Mauter, who was rescued by Charlottesville firefighters from a house fire on Lewis Mountain Road on March 18, 2007, joined the firefighters who were involved in the rescue last Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary, talk with the media and warn citizens about the importance of smoke detectors in their homes. Mauter’s boyfriend, Brett […]
Since Barack Obama’s speech last week, even C-VILLE’s editor is talking about race. So it should come as no surprise that the New York Times is quoting UVA law Professor Michael Klarman today on the subject. “Nixon talks about ‘law and order,’ which is a code term for the urban race riots and rising crime […]
A letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, written by one Nancy Kaplan and published today, draws a surprising comparison between the recently controversial rhetoric of Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright…
House Bill 239 was the great green hope of 2008: Signed into law by Governor Tim Kaine on March 4, the young law expands the definition of what makes a building "energy efficient" to include a number of different government-sponsored systems of evaluation, and offers the tantalizing possibility of tax breaks for any building that […]
U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Charlottesville’s Downtown Transit Center with a gold LEED certification.
The Virginia Quarterly review has done it again. Just as in recent years, they’ve…