Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

We’re ready to turn our volume knobs to the max for week No. 19  of our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, a pair of locally spawned bands that every music fan should be proud to call our own (even if we call ’em […]

Tartuffe; Live Arts, in the DownStage Theater; Through May 23

It is no accident that David Dwyer’s set design for Tartuffe incorporates dramatic, gilded picture frames that stretch from the stage to the Live Arts balcony. Like the title character of Molière’s play, the frames are attractive on the outside and empty on the inside. They are bloated, eye-grabbing symbols of hypocrisy, so it makes […]

Forty-five songs that every Charlottesville music fan should know

Stephen Malkmus (left) of Pavement, No. 26 Things are going to get loud.  And I don’t strictly mean musically speaking, though we have our fair share of the really noisy stuff on this list—from the nastiest instrumental metal to the soundtrack for a long-gone underground venue. We’ve got plenty of the quiet stuff, too—extinct local […]

Lit mag gives UVA docs a creative outlet

“A lot of doctors have writer’s block,” says Dr. Daniel Becker, “but they all have stories and they all tell stories.” Think about that the next time you describe your odd symptoms to your physician—they might just end up in her next book. In addition to being the director of UVA’s Center for Biomedical Ethics […]

Darden included in Kindle DX pilot program

Amazon.com announced on May 6 its plans for a pilot program involving five universities to test its new device, Kindle DX. Among them: UVA’s Darden School of Business, the only business school chosen.  “The graduate business school arena is quite different from the undergraduate schools participating in the program,” says Ken White, vice president of […]

Norris and Szakos win noms at unassembled caucus

Charlottesville’s Democrats used a new “unassembled caucus” Saturday, May 9, to elect Dave Norris and Kristin Szakos as their candidates for City Council and James Brown III, as their candidate for Sheriff in the November 3 general election.

Downtown Mall finally gets its new lease on life

Disappointingly, there were no “oohs” or “aahs” at the May 4 City Council meeting when Jim Tolbert made a final slideshow presentation on the rebricking project, but its unofficial slogan—“on time and under budget”—was uttered at least twice. “When all the bills are paid,” Tolbert, director of Neighborhood Development Services, said, “we should be 10 […]