Recreation & Fitness

Rec & Fitness intro video by Okay Yellow PLACE TO HIKE Humpback Rocks Runner-up: Sugar Hollow Back on top this year after a brief hiatus, Humpback Rocks prompts just one response from readers: Every day should be Hump day. The 740′ peak takes just 45 minutes to climb, but once at the top, hikers have […]

BEST OF C-VILLE 2010

Not so fast, ladies and gents Click here for staff picks from Best Of C-VILLE 2010 Welcome, one and all, to the winners’ parade. Below lie your choices for the best in restaurants, doctors and entertainment. Prepare to be amazed, for while you’ll recognize a few of your picks from previous years, others are new […]

Not so fast, ladies and gents

While your expertise in areas like tattoos and chiropractors awes us year after year, there are certain classes of phenomena we reserve for ourselves. When it comes to supernatural Charlottesvillians and unexplainable experiences, we rely on the group of freaks we regularly stock around the joint to tell the story. Behold The Phlash, The Man with […]

Rare natural wonders

Peter Chang: The Incredible Disappearing Chef Now you see him, now you don’t! Foodies far and wide followed the elusive Peter Chang to our little hamlet earlier this year, hoping to taste just one delicious morsel of the chef’s scallion bubble pancakes. Or, at the very least, stand in the long line squished into the […]

Dazzling sleights of hand

City adopts new motto, Don’t Look Up, upon completing Second Street beautification What do you do if you’re the City of Charlottesville and there’s a hulking, haunting, skeletal symbol of economic doom smack in the center of your pride and joy (and tourist engine), the Downtown Mall? You put in some planters. Planters make things […]

The best of Ken Cuccinelli

 Well, look who’s in the news again. Never one to let a week go by without controversy, last week our indomitable Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli went for a bit of a two-fer. First, his office issued an opinion stating that Virginia’s police and conservation officers “may, like Arizona police officers, inquire into the immigration status […]

Council to consider more stringent panhandling rules

 City Council will revisit and vote on proposed changes to the panhandling regulations on the Downtown Mall at it August 16 meeting. The proposed amendments to the current ordinance would include changing the term “panhandling” to “soliciting.” The ordinance would prohibit solicitation “from and to any person who is conducting business at any vendor table […]