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You know, just like in the Kentucky Derby, there’s a nearly insurmountable gulf between a political thoroughbred and an overhyped also-ran.

In a culture awash with pointless crap to look at, still-life painting has never been more relevant.

When Habitat for Humanity broke ground on Sunrise Park in March, the city took a big step towards addressing nearly a decade of affordable housing anxieties. However, the Sunrise model—affordable units tucked into a mixed-income, mixed-use site—hasn’t fared as well for other local developers. Roughly half the units in Sunrise Park, located near the Carlton […]

When the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors first created the Acquisition of Conservation Easements (ACE) program in 2000, a hearty economy ensured it an annual budget of $1 million.

Isabel Castillo is undocumented and unafraid. When she was 6, she left Mexico for the United States and has been living in Harrisonburg ever since.

  Last year, Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd told C-VILLE that he had “all but come to the conclusion” that he would not run for reelection. It turns out that “but” was a fairly big one: Boyd announced last week that he planned to pursue a third term on the board. Earlier this year, Boyd […]

When Johnathan Perkins wrote to the Virginia Law Weekly and alleged that two white UVA Police officers mistreated him—an incident he later admitted to be false—he described a feeling of shame at being singled out.   Charlene Green (pictured), program coordinator for the city’s Dialogue on Race, says Perkins’ motives may be unclear, but his […]

Two decades before UVA welcomed its inaugural class, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Littleton Waller Tazewell, future Virginia governor, about his hopes for the University of Virginia. “What was useful two centuries ago is now become useless,” wrote Jefferson. “What is now deemed useful will in some of its parts become useless in another century.” And […]

John Casteen’s new collection of poetry from the VQR Poetry Series, For the Mountain Laurel, is a stirring exploration of where human nature and nature-nature intersect.

Following the recommendations of Governor Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia Board of Social Services recently voted against nondiscrimination regulations that would have allowed gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. The vote is particularly significant for Charlottesville and Albemarle County, where adoption numbers have risen during the past three years and […]