2011 Health Annual

JUMP TO: 10 ways to improve your health right now A real-life breast cancer story Mindfulness Five local guardians of wellness Gastric Bypass: 101 Five healthy lunches 10 places to run or ride What’s up with clinical trials? UVA’s cutting edge The move at Martha Jefferson How does Virginia stack up, health-wise? Connections that should […]

Stop picking on us

Nothing is dead on Davis Avenue, a cozy stretch of brick homes north of the Downtown Mall. However, you wouldn’t know it to look at the massive birds that roost in a group of trees nearby. A mob of turkey vultures roost in trees near Davis Field, north of the Downtown Mall. While Charlottesville and […]

An Albemarle House divided?

It appears that no house is a safe house for former winery owner Patricia Kluge, whose financial struggles continue. Last week, a county judge appointed J. Todd Willett, Director of Asset Services for real estate firm CB Richard Ellis, to “maintain the status quo” of Albemarle House, the property she acquired in her divorce settlement […]

Make up your mind

If, as G.I. Joe once told us, “knowing is half the battle,” then what is the other half? Charlottesville is one of the brainiest cities in the country—which means, presumably, that we know a lot. The irony? We don’t know how our collective brainpower works. Local entrepreneur Jeff Gunther describes his OpenSpace business as a […]

Mann stays in the hot seat

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, no doubt still aglow from his latest victory in his war on health care reform, got some help this month from an outside nonprofit in his quest to pry loose a bevy of documents related to former UVA climate scientist Michael Mann. On January 6, the American Tradition Institute (ATI), along […]

City mulls new middle school site

On January 4, about 20 local parents sat in Greenbrier Elementary and peppered Charlottesville Superintendent Rosa Atkins with questions about the school division’s middle school revamp.

Master of the art

VIDEO BY COOGAN BRENNAN In Richard Crozier’s studio behind his Preston Place home, about 1,000 of his original works line shelves and baskets on the floor. You could find a football field, lay them all out, and spend hours looking at an impressionistic map of Charlottesville, composed entirely of the many moments Crozier spent brush […]