News

UVA study finds recidivism rate cut in half by Re-entry classes

For local jail inmates, going through an eight-week Re-entry program before being released can make a big difference in whether they wind up back in jail. C-VILLE reported in September on the New Beginnings Transitional Re-entry program, whose efficacy is confirmed in a newly released study, conducted by UVA’s Ann Loper and Kathryn Scheffel Fraser. […]

Erika Howsare | November 3, 2009

News

Abstract Photography: Selections from Glenstone; UVA Art Museum; Through January 3, 2010

Is a photograph a straightforward document of reality? Hardly anyone thinks so anymore. In the art photography realm, it’s been nearly a century since artists like Alfred Steiglitz and Paul Strand—now firmly in the canon—began playing with the medium’s relationship to representation and truth. Students of the medium are well-accustomed to thinking about how fluid, […]

Erika Howsare | November 3, 2009

Living

November 2009: Gate Pratt preserves and updates in Fifeville

SEE MORE • For a complete photo gallery of the images from this month’s feature, click the "Photo Gallery" link at right. • For a slideshow of the project’s before images, click here. In a neighborhood like Fifeville, every old house is a potential dilemma. Many homes are in rough shape, and the neighborhood’s prime […]

Erika Howsare | November 3, 2009