How accessible is C’ville?
India Sims’ favorite place in Charlottesville is 5th Street Station, the large shopping area anchored by Wegmans supermarket. It’s one of the few places in town where her presence feels […]
Give it away now
Amyrose Foll is fond of quoting the statistic that the human brain can process 1,500 words of speech per minute. And she does her best to pack in each one. […]
Power shift
In the fall of 2010, Alexis Zeigler and Debbie Piesen set out to see if they could live independent of fossil fuels. On land just north of Louisa, they started […]
Building the soil
Why isn’t more public green space used to grow food? Highway medians, the small lawns between sidewalks and apartments, public parks, all have the potential, and Richard Morris thinks about […]
Filling a knead
Woodson’s Mill is alive. The green lawn is speckled with people in conversation. There’s smoke from a wood-fired pizza truck, and a number of vendor tables display local food and […]
In loving memory
There is still some mystery about who’s buried in the Daughters of Zion Cemetery’s modest plot opposite Oakwood Cemetery. The grounds are not crowded and the headstones are found mainly […]
Cracking the safe
You might expect that The Bradbury—that monumental, stone building with carved columns on the Downtown Mall—has a storied history. It stands out with an allure of grandeur. That expectation is […]
Tattoos of town
Charlottesville’s tattoo culture is on the rise, with enough shopsopening in the past two years to nearly double the town’s total. While the saturation of body art doesn’t rival that […]