President Obama made an appearance at Virginia Commonwelath University in Richmond May 5, one of two stops on his first official campaign weekend. Virginia is poised to get plenty of attention from the candidates in the lead-up to the November presidential election. (Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zumapress.com) Unless you’ve spent the last month spelunking in Luray Caverns, we’re […]
President Obama made an appearance at Virginia Commonwelath University in Richmond May 5, one of two stops on his first official campaign weekend. Virginia is poised to get plenty of attention from the candidates in the lead-up to the November presidential election. (Zhang Jun/Xinhua/Zumapress.com) Unless you’ve spent the last month spelunking in Luray Caverns, we’re […]
Critical mass. With 35 biotechnology companies currently doing business in the city, members of Charlottesville’s biotech industry say they’ve got it. Two years after the University of Virginia retooled its intellectual property regulations to encourage more researchers to move their ideas to market, biotech is bigger than ever here, and looming large in the financial […]
Mercedes Helnwein’s “The Beautiful Person” provokes and questions observers at Second Street Gallery. (Courtesy the artist) What are you looking at? A stern portrait’s half-lidded stare seems to ask this the moment anyone walks through the door at Second Street Gallery. And in artist Mercedes Helnwein’s show “The Beautiful Person,” it’s a question well worth […]
Deirdre Gilmore has watched her grandson become a statistic.
The plan for the 29 Western Bypass is back on the radar of both the Virginia Department of Transportation and vocal opponents of the 6-mile route as VDOT prepares to select a winning construction bid.
“Everybody’s got a vision and they’re trying to get it off the ground,” said UVA senior Kevin Pujanauski. “How do you bring attention to it, how do you bring a little funding to it, how do you get people excited about it?”
There’s a story Abigail Turner likes to tell about her early days working as a civil rights attorney in 1970s Alabama.
One of the best things about vacation is that it uproots us from our familiar habits.
For 18 years, vendors and shoppers have flocked to the Water Street parking lot every Saturday morning, April through December, for Charlottesville’s City Market. The location is often described as too crowded, and while some might see the busy scene as a sign of success, local experts believe the market could grow beyond the weekly, five-hour session if given the room to expand its footprint and its mission.
“I didn’t think I would make much of an impact,” said Maya Carr. “I just thought it would be once-a-week tutoring that doesn’t really matter.”