The Festy Experience (Photo by Tom Daly) Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. (June 7-10) bonnaroo.com Brave the Bonnaroo elements—dust, heat and the crowd of 80,000—and you’ll be rewarded with an incomparable musical overload. The multiple stages on the grounds of the 700-acre farm in Manchester—about an hour southeast of Nashville—feature a range […]
The Festy Experience (Photo by Tom Daly) Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. (June 7-10) bonnaroo.com Brave the Bonnaroo elements—dust, heat and the crowd of 80,000—and you’ll be rewarded with an incomparable musical overload. The multiple stages on the grounds of the 700-acre farm in Manchester—about an hour southeast of Nashville—feature a range […]
River Bend Vice President Alan Taylor is excited to develop the land between Fifth and Avon streets into a shopping center featuring Wegmans, a high-end grocery store with devoted followers. (Photo by John Robinson) Turns out the rumors are true—Wegmans is coming to town. River Bend Management, a local developer owned by Coran Capshaw, […]
A plan for the newly updated Azalea Park shows rearranged amenities and a new parking layout. (City Parks Department) How does a park grow? Many in the Fry’s Spring neighborhood can now count the ways. After years of community input, planning, and grant-seeking, a series of improvements to Azalea Park is now under way, […]
Forecasts for the 2012 hurricane season predict an average number of Atlantic storms, but a UVA climatologist says we’re in for an uptick in activity soon. (Photo: Zuma Press/zumapress.com) ’Tis the season: Risk of hurricanes average now, but what’s on the horizon? The 2012 hurricane season officially began last Friday, but mother nature had no […]
Charlottesville’s Human Rights Task Force was born amid controversy last winter as the City Council put the brakes on a plan to appoint a body to investigate, mediate, and issue rulings on alleged cases of discrimination.
Plans to complete the long-contested Meadowcreek Parkway through McIntire Park cleared another hurdle last week when a federal judge dismissed the case filed by the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, which is attempting to block the planned interchange with the 250 Bypass.
Absent from Davenport Field was the storybook, ninth-inning comeback that sent the UVA baseball team to the College World Series a year ago.
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 […]