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Lenin returning triumphantly to Finland Station. Napoleon plotting his phoenix-like second act from the Isle of Elba.

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 […]

The commercial strip on Belmont’s Hinton Avenue has seen steady development in the past few years.

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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.