Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

And we’re now 18 weeks into our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, familiar faces and familiar structures. Some 12 years ago, we reported on what seemed a likely outcome for the four storefronts known collectively now as the Wachovia buildings: demolition. If only! […]

Get out of my bed

Dear Ace: When I drove home to my Barracks Road estate last Saturday evening, I observed a vast number of pickup trucks full of youngsters heading towards town. The Foxfield revelers were packed like drunken sardines in the backs of these trucks, many of them still drinking Bud Light. How on earth is this legal? […]

Corrections to the April 28 issue

Due to a reporting error in last week’s cover story, we mistakenly stated that a former Country Vintner employee directs J.W. Sieg’s wine import and distribution business. Derek Robinson, formerly of the Country Vintner, is a wine consultant for J.W. Sieg, but the business is under the direction of J.W. Sieg Vice President Smith Williams. […]

Meredith Woo focuses on the sciences and fundraising

Less than a year into her new job as the dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Meredith Woo was asked a hard question. While talking to undergraduate students on Grounds, a freshman wanted to know how the College would be different in 15 years. “And I thought about it. It […]

Perriello requests $4M for Blue Ridge Tunnel project

Plans to convert the Blue Ridge Tunnel into a hiking trail through Afton Mountain may have gotten a boost April 3, when Representative Tom Perriello asked the House Appropriations Committee to earmark $4.36 million for the project in fiscal year 2010. To construct the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which could see new life as a walking […]

Trying to rise in the ranks of worldwide tennis, dozens of professional athletes, including Carly Gullickson, descend on Boar’s Head

Carly Gullickson, who at 22 is a 12-year veteran of the game, returns a ball during a marathon match against Lindsay Lee-Waters in the semifinals of the Boyd Tinsley Women’s $50,000 Pro Tennis Championships at Boar’s Head last weekend. Lee-Waters ultimately took the trophy, defeating Ekaterina Bychkova in the finals. Out on the clay courts […]