2010 Food & Drink Annual
There’s more to food than just eating. You’ve got chewing, licking, nibbling, sighing, buying, imbibing, smacking, chuckling, wiping, and grinning. And then you get to start again. When we’re not busy running […]
Supervisors trim massive gas station plan
They met in living rooms to craft arguments, stood on the curb of Route 250 to plot traffic flow
Dressing up
Since Halloween is right around the corner, we thought it might be a good time to revisit one of the cardinal rules of politics
Perriello headed toward another recount?
Two years ago, the political current moved with the Democracts, and Perriello swam with Mark Warner and Barack Obama. This year, he must fight a national tide sweeping the GOP’s direction with no bigger fish to lure Virginia voters.
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 […]