Aren’t we fascinated when real people live up to well-worn stereotypes?â The characters in Superior Donuts seem like stereotypes, but they embody realistic contradictions, which makes them endearingly plumb. Isaih Anderson (left) and Tim McNamara bring nuance and heart to thinly scripted roles in the Live Arts production of Superior Donuts. When I say that protagonist Arthur Przybyszewski (Robert McNamara) is […]
Aren’t we fascinated when real people live up to well-worn stereotypes?â The characters in Superior Donuts seem like stereotypes, but they embody realistic contradictions, which makes them endearingly plumb. Isaih Anderson (left) and Tim McNamara bring nuance and heart to thinly scripted roles in the Live Arts production of Superior Donuts. When I say that protagonist Arthur Przybyszewski (Robert McNamara) is […]
You’re angry. They get scared of you when you tell them what you’ve been through. You’re not a jerk. It’s just, you signed over your body to the government, spent a year getting shot at in Afghanistan, 7,000 miles away. It’s not you, but what the war did to you: The post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), […]
After three years as the head of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Randy Bickers is "worn out," and has decided to step down
“There’s a lot more original programming on Channel 13 now than there was 12 years ago,” said Maurice Jones, city manager and former director of communications
UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs released its oral history of President George H.W. Bush last Friday. The history—one of five completed by the Miller Center—offers a rare glimpse into the 41st presidency through the words of men and women who played key roles in his administration
Neither Michael Gibson nor Philip Van Cleave take chances with a bluff. Gibson, chief of the UVA Police Department he joined in 1982, wrote to the University community last month after a student was robbed at gunpoint
Will Bates didn’t grow up with soccer in his blood. Born in Chester, Virginia, in football country and raised by a father who had been a gridiron warrior at Virginia Military Institute, his success story is a classic example of the expansion of the sport in this country and of a homegrown talent’s route to the big stage
In social networks, the theory is that six degrees separate us, but in the food world, we’re shooting for two. When we cook at home, we want to raise the chickens laying our eggs, and we want to pick our own fruits and veggies. We want to know the farmer growing our soybeans and then […]
Barbara Taylor Moore, an organist, piano teacher, and volunteer firefighter, was born in Charlottesville to a family that goes back several generations in the area. If that makes her a rare bird, it also gives her a trove of ancestors and anecdotes
The City of Charlottesville recently received a $1 million grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management to establish a regional and statewide information-sharing plan