Red dirt alert
We’ve noticed a little more commotion than usual on East Rio Road, where development of the Albemarle Housing Improvement Program’s (AHIP) Treesdale Park is accelerating along the notoriously congested […]
Musical chairs
If the ghost of Thomas Jefferson were to appear at our bedside and grant us one election-altering wish, it would be this: That all redistricting decisions be taken out of human hands and assigned to a robot.
UVA scrutinizes illicit explorers
In the days after Tom Gilliam IV fell 40’ from the top of the UVA Physics Building to his death, university officials began work to prevent Gilliam’s fellow students from making similar, potentially fatal, ascents.
Future by design
Welcome to C-VILLE’s Design Annual, where each year we address the latest in local design. This year’s issue is a little different in that much that’s been designed here hasn’t, […]
Borrow a Horse; Old Calf; No Quarter Records
Each song on Borrow A Horse plucks a folk rhyme from centuries past, presenting it not as an excavated artifact, but as a nugget smoothed and refined by the sands of time.
Martha Jefferson addresses merger concerns
In late September, Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH) announced a merger with Sentara—a large, not-for-profit health care system based in Norfolk, Virginia. Sentara, which generated $1.7 billion in revenue in 2009, […]
Scents and sensibility
As the real estate value of Woolen Mills rose during the last decade, so too did the neighborhood’s concern for the pump station stench.
A balance of power
In the weeks since a pair of natural disasters compromised nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, locals looked to Louisa County’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant, located 30 miles […]
Wheels keep on turning
Want to make things easier for local bike commuters? You might have to get behind the Meadow Creek Parkway. At least on paper, the controversial, 40-plus-year Charlottesville-Albemarle connector is a […]
Laugh it up
It’s Oscar night and things could be going better. Jim Zarling is doing stand-up in front of a crowd of 25 or 30 people at the Southern and, for whatever […]