Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

Ice, ice, baby—too cold? Too much? It’s been about 14 years since we received a winter wallop like the snow-smacking we got last weekend. And when C-VILLE revisited our coverage of the blizzard of 1996, we found that our city deals with nearly two feet of the fluffy white stuff the same way it did […]

UVA profs' favorite books of 2009

Like building a tolerable “best of” list, finding the perfect holiday gift can be confusing. That’s why C-VILLE asked UVA faculty to tell us about their favorite book that came out in 2009. Read on, and happy holidays. Marianne Baernholdt, Nursing Little Bee, by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster) “In Britain where it was first […]

UVA's Lighting of the Lawn, by the numbers

  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 […]

Whitehead gets national nod for hassling Perriello

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 […]

Mike London is new head coach

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 […]