Ace, this state is giving me geographical vertigo. Why is it that North Garden is located along Rte. 29 South? Why not call it “South Garden?” And what is it north of?—Carter Graffer Do you really want to go there, Carter? And by “there,” Ace doesn’t mean down to lovely North Garden, with its verdant […]
Ace, this state is giving me geographical vertigo. Why is it that North Garden is located along Rte. 29 South? Why not call it “South Garden?” And what is it north of?—Carter Graffer Do you really want to go there, Carter? And by “there,” Ace doesn’t mean down to lovely North Garden, with its verdant […]
Although not confirmed yet, a reliable source told C-VILLE that the Waterhouse Project on W. Water St. is in the process of being sold
Charlottesville’s Dialogue on Race is prepping for its kick-off meeting on December 5 at Charlottesville High School. Assistant City Manager Maurice Jones told City Council on November 2 that the study circle model will begin in early January. Last year, City Council highlighted seven priorities that needed to be tackled in 2009. One of those […]
It was the gubernatorial election that attracted the New York Times’ cameras to Charlottesville on November 3, but city and county races held just as much interest for many local watchers.
This week, a boyish 40-year-old who shares a name with an iconic crooner takes the floor at the John Paul Jones Arena for his first basketball game as Virginia’s eleventh head coach when UVA battles Longwood University. Does Tony Bennett really know what he’s getting himself into? New basketball head coach Tony Bennett is […]
Believe us when we tell you this: Even the most pessimistic member of Creigh Deeds’ beleaguered campaign staff didn’t think it was going to be this bad.
The first time we can recall reporting on someone’s grand scheme to restore the Jefferson Theater as a performance venue, after years as the Movie Palace, was 17 years ago. Before the property was picked up at auction by a local newspaper editor who then sold it 14 years later to a local music promoter/band […]
Emily Traylor wasn’t ready to go directly to a four-year university. She wanted to ease into college life. “I don’t know if I could have handled UVA going straight out of high school,” she says. She weighed the options and then Traylor decided to give Piedmont Virginia Community College a try. A growing number […]
Yellow is the color of sorority. It’s also a three-sided hue. Red, blue and black are quadratic. I shall explain. Bottle of red? Not quite. Maggie Small is held aloft by Jesse Bechard, David Neal, Thomas Ragland and Fernando Sabino in Richmond Ballet’s premier performance of “Lines Squared” by choreographer Jessica Lang. Last week, […]
Kids these days sure do like their metatheater. It’s no surprise, then, that PVCC chose two modern classics of the genre—Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and Christopher Durang’s The Actor’s Nightmare, as a back-to-back crash course in Absurdism. You’ll never find a heartbreaking production of The Bald Soprano, a projected spoof of nonsensical domestic small […]