Willoughby homeowners resist association
Residents of the Willoughby subdivision were invoiced in August for dues to a homeowners association that many did not know existed.
"Site Singularity"; Suzanna Fields, J.T. Kirkland and Sean Lundgren; The Bridge/PAI, through September 25
The walls are alive at The Bridge this month, colonized by forms from Suzanna Fields, J.T. Kirkland and Sean Lundgren crafted specifically to meld with the venue’s sparse main room. Their conceptual creations demand a sturdy attention span, but look closely and your patience will be rewarded. At one end, Richmond’s Fields coated the drywall […]
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival; Thursday, September 16; The Jefferson Theater and Sunday, September 19 at Old Cabell Hall
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival’s September 16 show at the Jefferson Theater took on the difficult task of bringing classical music down from the ivory tower, and into the iPod-primed ears of today. Clarinetist Matthew Hunt, who had brought the audience to its feet earlier in the festival with his performance of Steve Reich’s Counterpoint […]
Warner seeks to "shake up higher education" at Curry School talk
Soon after U.S. Senator Mark Warner took the microphone September 9 in the atrium of the new Bavaro Hall at UVA’s Curry School of Education, it became clear that the intent of the Democratic senator’s visit was not to wax poetic over the status quo. U.S. Senator Mark Warner remarked that top-tier universities have been […]
PVCC predicts record 5,600 students
At the September meeting of the Piedmont Virginia Community College board, PVCC President Frank Friedman told board members that the school’s budget was slated for a $900,000 cut. An infusion of $500,000 in federal stimulus money helped to soften the blow to the college’s $18.9 million budget for the current academic year. Now, according to […]
Dialogue on Race advances: big ideas, phone apps
Less than a year ago, the City of Charlottesville kicked off the Dialogue on Race, what Acting City Manager Maurice Jones now calls the “largest civic engagement project” in the city in a long time.
Where will we put 5 million pounds of recyclables if McIntire closes?
If change is in the air at the McIntire Recycling Center on McIntire Road, you’d never know it in the days just after Labor Day weekend. Cars line the parking lot, as locals young and old carry bags of hand-sorted recyclables around the property, and drop them into segregated bins of plastics, metals and various […]
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival; Thursday, September 9; The Paramount Theater; Sunday, September 12; Old Cabell Hall
On the program for this year’s Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival is both old-guard classical work
Lady Gaga; The John Paul Jones Arena; Wednesday, September 8
During her first song Wednesday night at the John Paul Jones Arena, “Dance in the Dark,”
Winter issue of VQR cancelled
Plans for the Winter 2010 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review were in place by April, around the time editor Ted Genoways received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project on American poet Walt Whitman and the Civil War. While Genoways was on leave, two organizers of the annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph—co-founder Nick Nichols […]