When empty, the local mosque on 10 1/2 Street is a cozy two-story, 1,550-square-foot home on the edge of the UVA campus. Come time for Friday prayer, however, fitting 150 people comfortably in a 600-square-foot prayer space is a challenge. Many area Muslims are forced to pray outside the building. Khan Hassan, a board member […]
A few days after defense contracting titan Northrop Grumman terminated 60 positions at its Sperry Marine manufacturing and engineering headquarters in Albemarle, nine local job postings remained on the Northrop website
In both Charlottesville and Albemarle County, the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program last opened three years ago during an intense stretch of the economic recession
In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, one character asks another how he went bankrupt. "Gradually," he says, "then suddenly."* Kluge strolls the estate with her third husband, Bill Moses. In 2002, the Kluge Estate New World Red entered the world in an ebony trimmed wooden box designed by David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, a.k.a. Viscount Linley, son […]
You know, just like in the Kentucky Derby, there’s a nearly insurmountable gulf between a political thoroughbred and an overhyped also-ran.
In a culture awash with pointless crap to look at, still-life painting has never been more relevant.
When Habitat for Humanity broke ground on Sunrise Park in March, the city took a big step towards addressing nearly a decade of affordable housing anxieties. However, the Sunrise model—affordable units tucked into a mixed-income, mixed-use site—hasn’t fared as well for other local developers. Roughly half the units in Sunrise Park, located near the Carlton […]
When the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors first created the Acquisition of Conservation Easements (ACE) program in 2000, a hearty economy ensured it an annual budget of $1 million.
Isabel Castillo is undocumented and unafraid. When she was 6, she left Mexico for the United States and has been living in Harrisonburg ever since.
Last year, Albemarle County Supervisor Ken Boyd told C-VILLE that he had “all but come to the conclusion” that he would not run for reelection. It turns out that “but” was a fairly big one: Boyd announced last week that he planned to pursue a third term on the board. Earlier this year, Boyd […]