City schools test vegetarian lunch menu
The black bean and brown rice taco that chef Martha Stafford presented to the School Community Nutrition Committee (SCNC) at Charlottesville High School last Wednesday night was anything but ordinary. […]
Meadowcreek Interchange gets O.K. from Feds
The U.S. 250 Bypass and McIntire Road interchange, part of the controversial Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP)
Making way for Atwood's Waterhouse
After years of designs and redesigns, construction of architect Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse project seems imminent.
Morgan Harrington's mom keeps local vigil
Minutes before 9pm on October 17, 2009, somewhere between the entrance to the John Paul Jones Arena and the Copeley Road bridge where she was last spotted
How Dianna Poe helps troubled city kids complete high school
Dianna Poe pulls up to the Riverside Lunch parking lot on a rainy Monday night in a white Volvo station wagon. She waves and parks. Five kids, between the ages […]
The Glass Menagerie; Culbreth Theater; Through October 16
Astronomers recently discovered a small solar system that could support life some 20 light years away from earth. I wonder if, in the glare of their own sun, some distant, […]
Opposites attack
Remember when you used to play “opposite day” as a kid? You don’t? O.K., what about Kris Kross, those early ’90s pre-teen rappers who wore their clothes backwards—surely you remember […]
Martha Jefferson merger could swap patient approval for tech update
Independent, local hospital merges with larger not-for-profit in hopes of constraining costs, expanding services.
It's hip to be in a square
When I was given the assignment of traveling to a local elementary school to square dance, the first thing I did was panic. (I’m not much of a dancer, or […]
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