Wouldn’t it be a nice world if you could restructure something like a prison sentence? "Hey judge," you might say, "I can give you 10 years, but I really need to be out in time for the 2018 Super Bowl—what about sticking me in solitary for a year or so instead?" While mortgages aren’t prison […]
Wouldn’t it be a nice world if you could restructure something like a prison sentence? "Hey judge," you might say, "I can give you 10 years, but I really need to be out in time for the 2018 Super Bowl—what about sticking me in solitary for a year or so instead?" While mortgages aren’t prison […]
Good old Thoreau once wrote, "I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." He was writing in a time when many still believed in spontaneous generation: no nasty sex involved, just the miraculous appearance of perfect little plantlets out of the […]
Here it is again: the season when all manner of family, friends and near-strangers will be parading through your house. They’ll eye up every detail of the décor, run through your entire stock of juice boxes and possibly even smash an object you love. Even scarier? They might bring suitcases. 200 South Street Inn has […]
As a member of Charlottesville’s Planning Commission, Cheri Lewis (who’s also an attorney) is used to dealing with thorny questions of how people and architecture interact. It can get pretty hot in that particular kitchen—i.e., lawsuits from developers, a vigilant citizenry—but Lewis’s own cooking and eating space at home feels like a true refuge. What’s […]
Weaving history www.historicwoolenmills.org/ Here in Charlottesville, we love history. We have to, in order to justify our insistence-beyond-all-reason on the TJ connection. There are other historic sites here, though, as this site about the Woolen Mills area amply proves. With a detailed chronology stretching back to the 1700s and plenty of stories and old photos, […]
Whatever you do, do not try to drive through the Orangedale neighborhood around 3:50pm on a weekday. That’s when the Charlottesville High School bus lets out on the corner of Bailey Road and Prospect Avenue off Fifth Street SW, and that’s when Orangedale’s younger residents pour into the streets, communing in the road to chat […]
That holidays—especially the fall and winter type—can be fraught with anxiety, loneliness or other nasty concepts has become a staple of modern American consciousness. On the loneliness front, I’ve been lucky to have plenty of family support when it comes to major holidays, though, like a lot of people, I’ve experienced at least one exception. […]
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Feedback's face lit up when we saw Brendan Canty's name on the list of this year's Virginia Film Festival guests.
Melinda Clayton
Occupation: Radiology tech student who works at Mincer's