When summer scorches Charlottesville, the city’s spray grounds provide an excellent antidote to record highs. Located in four public parks, these structures gush, dump, and drizzle H2O to keep kids and their parents cool. Admission is free, everyone’s welcome, and the parks are open every day from 10am to 7pm, from May 16 through September […]
To say Zyahna Bryant is active in the Charlottesville community is an understatement. At just 25 years old, Bryant has (among other achievements): written a petition that helped spark a nationwide reckoning with Confederate monuments, served as a high-school student leader, been a youth representative to City Council, and, most recently, become the youngest person […]
This past Presidents’ Day, the Rotunda played host to a genuine piece of American celebrity: a very rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence. UVA’s McGregor Dunlap broadside—one of just 26 known copies still around—was printed in Philadelphia in July 1776 and rushed across the colonies as the 18th century’s version of viral news. […]
Perspire with pals at the Rivanna River Co.’s Riversong saunas. Participants can book 90-minute schvitz sessions in one of a pair of wood-fired steam rooms. Bathing suits are mandatory for community sweats; post-sauna cold plunges in the nearby river, or snacks at the on-site Tea Room, are optional.
Charles Lewis, Maxicelia Robinson, Troy (Razor) Robinson (pictured above), and Aaron Simmons have a lot to say about local issues, and they put it all on the air with “In My Humble Opinion,” their local talk show/podcast. Topics tackled by “IMHO” include gun violence, race and media responsibility, the consequences of free speech, incarcerated mothers, […]
Good things come in small…galleries? That must be true, because The Little Museum of Art—an effort to reach more viewers during The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia’s shutdown in the summer of 2021—is a tiny treasure. Artists submit works no bigger than a square foot, which get displayed (and then traded […]
It would be hard to find a better example of the resiliency of the human spirit than Edith Hern Fossett (1787–1854). Born into slavery at Monticello, Fossett was taken to Washington, D.C., when she was 15 to cook for Thomas Jefferson at the president’s house. She received instruction in French cuisine from Honoré Julien, George […]
Ever since it was awarded the statue of Robert E. Lee by City Council in December 2021, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center has been laser focused on its “Swords Into Plowshares Recast | Reclaim” initiative, which will transform the two tons of bronze rendered from the statue into a public artwork. The piece […]
Halle Kate was just a 19-year-old preparing to enter college when she published her first coloring book. Now, two books under her belt, she’s turning her pen toward Charlottesville, with a 28-page compilation that will have myriad local landmarks, including the Rotunda, The Paramount Theater, and The Clifton. It drops in fall of 2026, so […]
There’s a restaurant, a coffee shop, an intimate music venue, a gallery, work spaces, and now: a creator hub. Opened in the winter of 2025, Vault Virginia’s Creator Hub offers rehearsal and recording space for everyone from music groups to wannabe podcasters, at $50 per month. As Vault founder James Barton said after its inception, […]