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Ashtanga Yoga of Charlottesville 505 Monticello Rd., above Mas restaurant. 970-7980. www.charlottesvilleashtanga.com. Offers Ashtanga Yoga classes and Mysore Practice Sunday-Friday. $12-15 ($7 for Mysore) for drop-ins; first class free. The ATTiC Glass Building, 313 Second Ave. SE, Suite 208. 977-7186. Offers Alexander Tech-nique teacher training with Daria Okugawa, plus yoga classes, workshops, privates and more. […]

Letters to the editor

“Feelings” vs. “facts” As a faculty member at UVA since 1987 and supporter of classified employees for the last decade, I’d like to respond to Carol Wood’s letter [Mailbag, July 18] disparaging staff concerns about the impact of “restructuring” on their jobs [“Restructuring Arrives in July,” June 27]. Wood suggests not only that Jan Cornell, […]

Other news we heard last week

Folks at UVA\’s psych department are all a-twitter today over a Sunday New York Times Magazine article that adds new fodder to the nature-versus-nurture debate. Recent research apparently shows that environment has more to do with intelligence than we thought.

Rehanging the Moon

Here at Restaurantarama, we often find ourselves writing about new restaurants that are, shall we say, entering our community from the outside world—chains like the Melting Pot, which appeared in this space last week.

Reviews

Sunday In the Park with GeorgeHeritage Repertory TheatreThrough July 29 stage In 1981, after his musical Merrily We Roll Along was abused by critics and shunned by the public, Stephen Sondheim announced that he was going to pour all of his creative energy into writing mystery novels. This was tantamount to Michael Jordan, a decade […]

Snap Judgments

One season. Three categories. Endless ideas. C-VILLE’s Summer Photo Contest is more than just a way to create an issue when the Art Director is on vacation—it’s a celebration of summertime in Charlottesville in all its variety. Dive in, the water’s great!

Reviews

There are a few things that everyone can be sure of: 1) the earth is round; 2) if you fling a baseball (or a parking ticket, or a shitzsu) up in the air, it will come back down; 3) musicals are ripe for parody.

Dr. Ho’s

While entertaining out-of-towners in the boondocks on a recent Sunday afternoon, we figured that Dr. Ho’s would be a good bet for a tasty lunch.

Opening the pot

Bringing a restaurant into this world is no simple task. Just ask Chad Hornik, whose adventures in fending off Charlottesville\’s architectural earnestness we detailed about a month ago.

Other news we heard last week

Tuesday, July 4No surprise: fatal crash on the Fourth The Fourth of July weekend is usually an ugly one, traffic fatality-wise, and this one was no exception. In Staunton, a crash on Independence Day took the life of a 37-year-old Verona woman and left her 8-year-old daughter in critical condition. The cause of the accident […]