UVA alert, issued 11 days after student attacks; prompts questions
With anxiety and confusion rising amidst rumors of assaults on UVA students in the Corner area—anxiety made worse perhaps
"Serial Thrillers" at PVCC
It takes a deft mind to craft intrigue from a pile of random photos or a box of junk. Anonymous faces gaze from the walls of PVCC’s north gallery, sharing a hallway with improbable cairns of corroded landfill fodder and ceramic. Yet each piece in “Serial Thrillers”—on display through Nov. 3 by noted local artists […]
DMB, Big Brothers reopen Westhaven Afterschool Program
For the first time in years, when school opened at Burnley-Moran Elementary, the Westhaven Afterschool Program remained closed. Former program director Harold Folley told C-VILLE in June that a grant administered by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors since 2007 was no longer available, and he hoped to find more funds to reopen the program during the […]
Living Wagers hopeful new administration means fair wages
Greg Casar used to run on autopilot: classes, homework, activities, and back at it again the next day. Not anymore. “When I first visited UVA, I was taken aback by the beauty of this place, but I never thought about how much work it must take to build and maintain such a beautiful space,” he […]
Is urgency to privatize ABC stores necessary?
He took his idea to the people with an eight-city “Exit the Liquor Business” tour. His team unveiled a formal plan, chock-full of financial projections and answers to concerns. McDonnell’s privatization plan calls for the state to auction 1,000 retail liquor licenses to the highest bidding stores. Yet even with all that bustle, Governor Bob […]
On Estes Street, size matters
What happens when an unpopular development meets a slumping housing market?
Birdlips and Wes Swing; Rapunzel's; Saturday, September 25
Birdlips and Wes Swing are two local folk acts that split their time between here and elsewhere
Martha Jefferson Downtown location sold to local developer
Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH)’s Locust Avenue campus has been sold to Octagon Partners
Philanthropist Kluge remembered as "suffering from a disease called generosity"
Some 400 people gathered on Tuesday, September 21 to celebrate John Kluge, the self-made billionaire who made a home in Albemarle and died on September 7. In a 85-minute ceremony at Monticello Memorial Gardens, Jon Kabat-Zinn, the world-renowned mindfulness teacher, and poet Jonathan Paul Walton, one of hundreds of beneficiaries of Kluge’s $400 million […]
Breaking his silence after a staffer's suicide, Ted Genoways depicts pressures at VQR and answers the charge that he bullied Kevin Morrissey to death
Among the questions unanswered in the wake of the suicide of Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of the University of Virginia’s critically acclaimed Virginia Quarterly Review, is this one: What is it like to share an office with Ted Genoways? ; Within days of Morrissey’s July 30 death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, anonymous critics […]