What do you know about George Huguely? Jurors, immersed in news media, face questionnaire Are UVA Law’s gossip headlines self-inflicted? Disorder in the court My house is your house The difficult road to reinventing Charlottesville public housing Trump it up A new name for the same wine Voting rights elusive for ex-felons Virginia joins Kentucky […]
What do you know about George Huguely? Jurors, immersed in news media, face questionnaire Are UVA Law’s gossip headlines self-inflicted? Disorder in the court My house is your house The difficult road to reinventing Charlottesville public housing Trump it up A new name for the same wine Voting rights elusive for ex-felons Virginia joins Kentucky […]
Ace: When did Forbes become a hippie love-rag? I was counting my money the other day when my Blackberry updated its RSS feed, and what do I see? “Forbes.com: Virginia Is For Lovers.” I am a joyless shut-in, and this is news to me. What is Forbes blathering about, and should I consider moving?—Rick Cleuse […]
Stand up and be counted. When C-VILLE first started reporting on the best of what’s around here, we relied exclusively on our own wit and wisdom—earned from hours spent sitting in a cramped basement! Since then, we’ve gone the full circuit, seeking your insights over ours, dear readers, on an electronic ballot. This year we […]
Game developers know that the majority of console gamers—and yes, that includes yours truly—are statistic/achievement/trophy whores. And even the least of Microsoft’s online Gamerscore Nation knows that there’s no quicker way to boost your totals than by popping in a sports game. Run—don’t walk—to rack up skill points in the brand new season of NCAA […]
Think of the 23 hip-hop acts on the New Legends of Streetball, Vol. 2 Mixtape as the average pool of players at local pick-up basketball spots like The Dell or the courts near Cherry Avenue. There are a few familiar names (Beetnix and Anonamys, mixtape emcee Big Scheem) and a few newcomers (J Willz, Jae […]
Dan Epstein, whose restaurant, Eppie’s, has been runner-up for "Best meal under $10" for the past three years, wants you to vote for the Downtown Mall restaurant next year. Here, his PSA. Pen Park is a perennial winner in the "Best park for kids" category. So we […]
It was a hub of renovation and development for a few months there, but now that the bricklayers have left, the Downtown Mall is conspicuously silent.
Call it the ultimate red dirt alert. Several years ago, during development of Hollymead Town Centre on 29N, a large swath of bare ground sat with no vegetation. Seasons passed, and every rainstorm washed away more soil. “We live downstream from Hollymead Town Centre,” said Scott Elliff, a director of the Forest Lakes Community Association, […]
Controversy over the new, proposed health care bill has been played out on the national stage for some time now, but local mental health providers may have a different kind of crisis on their hands. The University of Virginia will soon end its agreement with Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH), where 20 beds in the psychiatric […]
“It’s a very historic event for the President of the United States to come out and applaud community colleges and praise them,”