In the next day’s press, both the Grafton Clippers and the Western Albemarle Warriors received praise for thrilling seasons following their performances in the Virginia Group AA/A state championship field hockey game, but Western Albemarle returns home from the expansive artificial fields of the National Training Center in Virginia Beach with a more substantive sign […]
Tonight Charlottesville's First Amendment Monument will receive a Jury Citation Award for Excellence in Architecture from the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA).
A New Yorker piece that examines the disarray on Wall Street following the collapse of the subprime mortgage market attributes…
Virginia Democrats made some serious gains in statewide and local elections Tuesday night.
At Crozet Pizza, the choice of toppings is vast and includes squash, three types of olives, Portobello and Shiitake mushrooms, eggplant and peanuts. I opt for plain cheese with fresh garlic and a Starr Hill Amber Ale, because the soul of a pizza joint is its crust, cheese and garlic. It’s hot and overwhelmingly fragrant—a […]
Due to a reporting error, last week’s Big Picture caption misidentified the third-place-winning bakers in the amateur category of the Meals on Wheels cake contest. The third place winners were Carolyn Schubert and Marcelle Morel, whose cake resembled a spaghetti lunch.
You got served: Andrew Alston, sentenced to three years in jail for voluntary manslaughter, is stuck on supervised probation for another three years, despite his effort to appeal. In November 2003, Andrew Alston, a third-year student at UVA, crossed paths with 22-year-old local firefighter Walter Sisk at the corner of Wertland and 14th streets, an […]
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, America’s clocks officially moved back an hour, ending daylight savings time for 2007. This is the first year that the extended version of daylight savings has been in effect, as per legislation passed by Congress in 2005. By starting daylight savings three weeks earlier in the spring and […]
Cavalier fans still trying to catch their breath today after the umpteenth cardiac rollercoaster performance by the football team on Saturday can at least breathe easy for now about the men's basketball team.
By Will Goldsmith and Scott Weaver When the dust clears on November 6, we’ll have somewhere between two and six new leaders on the biggest local offices, Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors (bear with us, we’re writing this on deadline). Here at C-VILLE, we stepped back to look at councilors […]