Teresa Sullivan to bring personality, leadership
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Teresa Sullivan to bring personality, leadership
New prez: "Let's work hard"
“Madame President, we are delighted to have you.”
UVA versus Michigan, by the numbers
Total student population University of Virginia: 21,057 University of Michigan: 56,857 (all campuses) Total operating budget University of Virginia: $2.25 billion (through June 2010) University of Michigan: $5.42 billion (all campuses), $1.5 billion overseen by Sullivan in 2009 Number of employees University of Virginia: 15,128 full-time University of Michigan: 9,266 instructional staff; 30,654 non-instructional (all […]
Belmont residents discuss noise ordinance before special City Council session
Things are heating up with regards to the noise issue in Belmont. Although official discussion has been deferred until February, City Council will hold a special session this Thursday, where the Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (BCNA) is expected to hand down recommendations on what a noise ordinance could entail. Belmont restaurant and music hall Bel Rio […]
Virginia's Dems win a squeaker
On Tuesday, January 12, somewhere in Richmond, Tim Kaine breathed a very shallow sigh of relief.
Virginia Quarterly Review; Winter 2010
“Most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues,” Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways wrote in the February issue of Mother Jones. “As if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism.” Genoways’ concerns are as artistic as they are practical: Not giving […]
Whatever happened to Naked Phish Guy?
Hey Ace, whatever happened to the “naked guy” at the Phish concert? Did they kick him out? (It was freezing that night!) Give him a jacket? Give him backstage passes?—Phishin’-in-Charlottesville Although you’d think that streaking and the Phish live concert experience would go together like milk and cookies, the appearance of the naked guy […]
Allen vs. Webb part deux?
For those of you who want another brutal, no-holds-barred political cage match à la Allen vs. Webb 2006, George Allen has one word for you
Reduce, reuse, redesign: A fresh take on recycling
READ THE FEATURE • The Paper Chase Challenge [with video!]: Three designers, three weeks and a whole lot of waste paper • Four local designers turn trash to treasure • What’s old is new again: Local items to attract your eye and your eco-consciousness. It started as a source of self-gratification and ended up a celebration of sustainability. […]
The Paper Chase Challenge
Ted Nelson’s chair for a new age Ted Nelson, architect and owner of Design Build Office and a 2002 graduate of the UVA Architecture School, says it took hundreds of hours to design, test and complete his newspaper chair. Architect and builder Ted Nelson takes a seat in his paper project. The chair is comprised […]
Four local designers turn trash to treasure
Willie Drake makes the most out of being a mountain man Willie Drake, founder of world-renowned Mountain Lumber Co., a reclaimed wood and millwork company in Ruckersville with a showroom in the Main Street Market, says he fell in love with salvaging abandoned wood timbers from old barns and factories “long before I was an […]