The Lighting of the Lawn is a UVA tradition that started in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks. Last year, UVA students, with the help of Dominion Virginia Power, made the switch from incandescent light bulbs to LED, for an estimated savings of 1,300 kWh of electricity. Here’s more on the Lighting of […]
The Lighting of the Lawn is a UVA tradition that started in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks. Last year, UVA students, with the help of Dominion Virginia Power, made the switch from incandescent light bulbs to LED, for an estimated savings of 1,300 kWh of electricity. Here’s more on the Lighting of […]
Rodney Thomas and Duane Snow officially became new members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last Wednesday,
It may look like the budget office’s $40 million projection for capital improvements in 2011
With Downtown Charlottesville receiving 23" of snow by Saturday night, the trouble was truly knee-deep.
It took just 60 steps for John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, to earn national notoriety as Keith Olbermann’s “worst person in the world.” Sixty steps is what Congressman Tom Perriello estimates to be the distance between the front door of his office in the Glass Building and the sidewalk where protestors can legally […]
Part of the pleasure of sports is the nakedness of its emperors. The head football coach might be the highest paid employee at a university, but for him there is no such thing as tenure. After a disappointing season, and another loss against rival Virginia Tech, Al Groh was fired and UVA hired Mike London […]
You might not have heard the UVA Chapel bells ringing at 3:07pm last Wednesday, but within minutes, you might have seen on the UVA Fine Arts Library’s Twitter account (UvaArtsLib)
The Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) is one step closer to becoming a reality.
While the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. the stimulus package, are being debated in Congress and around the country, for one city agency, that money has helped push forward important projects that would otherwise be left untouched for years. The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) was awarded close to […]
Greg Kelly takes his time making coffee in a silver pot in his little Belmont house. He’s talking about what it means to be an artist, something that had been on his mind in the early part of this decade, after he’d landed in Batesville with a newly minted education in studio art. “I didn’t […]