Sunbathing by the pool is nice enough for some, but there’s much more to summer than beach towels and SPF. We’ve dug up more than 170 ways to make the most of the next three months—indoors, outdoors, and in between. Grab your kids (or a few rowdy friends) and head out. We’ll see you there! JUMP […]
Sunbathing by the pool is nice enough for some, but there’s much more to summer than beach towels and SPF. We’ve dug up more than 170 ways to make the most of the next three months—indoors, outdoors, and in between. Grab your kids (or a few rowdy friends) and head out. We’ll see you there! JUMP […]
The Dark Knight Rises (Warner Bros.) For the indoor enthusiast: We know your type. You drive with the windows rolled up and the air conditioner blasting. You always feel sweaty. Grab yourself a snack and sneak it into a theater to hunker down for a blockbuster. Here are the big releases this summer: Prometheus (June […]
Expert color photographer Alex Webb is one of three INsight photographers headlining the Festival of the Photograph. (Photo by Alex Webb) It’s June again and Charlottesville’s celebrated photography festival, now in its fifth year, is back, kicking off with a talk by David Doubilet on Wednesday. If you’ve been on the Downtown Mall in recent […]
More than four years after the Piedmont Family YMCA inked deals with the city and Albemarle County that would allow the group to build a permanent facility in McIntire Park…
Memorial Day is a day to remember people who have died serving the country. It’s not a veterans’ holiday, but veterans do more of that kind of remembering than the rest of us, so it hits them differently.
Look, we understand that our beloved Virginia has long been one of America’s most schizophrenic states.
BULLETIN BOARD Radioactive sunshine: Governor McDonnell’s uranium work group—tasked with studying the potential ups and downs of proposed uranium mining and milling in Southside Virginia—has had its ground rules altered. Now the group is required to allow more opportunities for public input and to make summaries of its findings available throughout the process. Good, but […]
National Honor Society member Joey Wright will study electrical engineering at Old Dominion University in the fall. (Photo by Nick Strocchia) If you saw Joey Wright on the Downtown Mall, you probably wouldn’t give him a second look. Just shy of 6′-tall, brown-haired, and wearing the ubiquitous teenage uniform of jeans and a North Face […]
Tom Connaughton (far right), an ESOL teacher at Greenbrier Elementary, leads his students on weekly runs over a section of the Rivanna Trail near the intersection of 29N and the Route 250 Bypass. (Photo by Nick Strocchia) In Charlottesville, we have an approximately 20-mile urban trail system that forms an almost contiguous loop around the […]
For some of us it is the twisted tales that are most meaningful. They prove, by revealing the darker side of humanity to be cautionary, designed to inspire us to be better people.