Inside the crowded Long Beach Performing Arts Center, on a stage that hosted the likes of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and former U.S. military commander Stanley McChrystal during the preceding 48 hours, Albemarle County school teacher John Hunter interrupted his speech to take attendance. What did Albemarle County gifted teacher and World Peace Game creator […]
Mann, who received $485,000 via five federal and state grants for his research, is a popular target for global warming skeptics, who don’t like his temperature modeling.
At 9:30am on a Wednesday after heavy rains, 13-year-old Spencer Wood sits atop a hill in Afton, inspecting his surroundings. While most 13-year-olds in Albemarle County are in a classroom at this very moment, Spencer is surveying what has changed here at his “sit spot”—looking for changing leaf colors, new plant shoots, evidence of animal […]
Every year, Thomas Jefferson’s birthday marks a tradition that presumably would’ve made the dude proud. On April 13, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression celebrated the 20th annual “Muzzles,” awards given “to those responsible for some of the more egregious or ridiculous affronts to free expression occurring in the previous year.” […]
Don’t get mad—get even. After West Main Street parking lot owners Gabe Silverman and Allan Cadgene lost a highly publicized dust-up to Maya restaurant co-owner Peter Castiglione, the pair agreed to pave the pothole-plagued lot. Silverman and Cadgene contracted Digs, Inc. to do the job, which began in March and should conclude by June […]
After a seemingly interminable period of playing coy, former Governor Tim Kaine took to the Interwebs on April 5 to announce (in both English and impressively enunciated Spanish) that he is indeed running for Jim Webb’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.
Taking that EP’s five songs and adding six additional tracks, Home brings Manorlady’s vision into focus.
Last month, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) split the Choice Neighborhood grants among 19 recipients—Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia and…well, not Charlottesville.
Cloaked in orange and blue robes, Teresa Sullivan was inaugurated Friday as the first female president in UVA’s nearly 200 year history. The ceremony, held outside Old Cabell Hall, drew an audience of faculty, students, and community members that spilled halfway up the Lawn. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, along with University of Michigan President Mary […]
On a fall night in 2009, a UVA student named Darren hopped a fence at the Carl Smith Center football stadium. Wearing a climbing harness, he made his way to the base of a light tower, one of four that illuminate the field during UVA football games. He attached a carabiner—a small, metal clip used by […]