What really got our goat in 2010

This year, a few stories did a number on us. In return, we decided to put a number on those same stories.  C-VILLE scrutinized Charlottesville’s landmark events, and ranked each for its impact during the last year and implications for the next. From happenings that struck our community dumb with dismay to those that rejuvenated […]

Tom Skalak a candidate for CalPoly presidency

Thomas Skalak, UVA’s Vice President for Research since 2008, helped bring more than $30 million in grants to the school prior to his promotion. Now, the school may need to boost Skalak’s $275,000 annual salary to keep its lead innovator in town.

Right makes might

With an electorate that willingly combined the words “Ken Cuccinelli” and “Attorney General,” is there any conservative candidate they wouldn’t vote for?

Every trick in the book

    Oars flanked the podium in the sterile, textbook-filled upper mezzanine of the UVA bookstore—a silly sight. In front of a crowd split between faculty and young MFAs, Jeb Levingood, editor of UVA graduate literary journal Meridian, took to the podium with a fictional and fanciful introduction about how the local novelist John Casey […]