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Paul Curreri told the story Saturday night about his first record release show in Charlottesville.

 A few weeks ago, Kendall Singleton returned home from an unplanned trip to Earlysville’s Panorama Farms to find she was down to the last of her weekly community supported agriculture (CSA) produce—onions, basil and garlic from Nelson County, but no centerpiece. A quick shopping trip later, and she had a bit of Twin Oaks tofu […]

On July 30, Kevin Morrissey called the police to report a shooting near the coal tower on Water Street.

After my final interview with Dave Kannensohn, he called me at my office to let me know he forgot to mention something. (That kind of thing happens to people his age.) The name Eubie Blake, he says. Huh? Eubie Blake, he says. Eubie Blake was a pianist who was born to former slaves in 1883. […]

 More than two months after Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi asked local artist Chris Butler to display his paintings and pen-and-ink work inside Baldi’s Belmont club, Butler returned to take his work from the walls. By then, Bel Rio had been closed for nearly two weeks, and its owner—the subject of a $300,000 fraud lawsuit […]

If there’s one member of Virginia’s congressional delegation who intrigues us the most, it has to be James Henry Webb, Jr

 With the money Halsey Minor says he will seek in damages in a lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), he claims he will not only finish building the Landmark Hotel, but will be involved in more developments in Downtown Charlottesville.  Minor wrote in a Huffington Post editorial that, by dividing the FDIC’s loan […]

First Place Untitled, by Nick Strocchia                                                   Second Place   “Crozet View,” by David Anhold       Third Place Untitled, by Hannah Peterson               […]

City Council’s discussion last Monday made clear that it supports further lowering the late-night music level in Belmont and Fry’s Spring to 55 decibels.

 This week Teresa Sullivan begins her term as the eighth President of UVA. She walks into a situation dominated by economic challenges and ever-shrinking financial support from the Commonwealth. But that hasn’t kept faculty and staff at the University from crafting a wish list of changes they’d like to see happen under the new Prez.  […]