The last thing that local artist Warren Craghead needed was something to keep him up at night—more time to kill, more spaces to fill. A hobby? Pffft. Craghead needs a hobby like he needs another art gallery, one more space to crowd with work. “At this point, the hobby is survival,” Craghead told me two […]
The last thing that local artist Warren Craghead needed was something to keep him up at night—more time to kill, more spaces to fill. A hobby? Pffft. Craghead needs a hobby like he needs another art gallery, one more space to crowd with work. “At this point, the hobby is survival,” Craghead told me two […]
I don’t think I can do better than to quote the curators of the show in Second Street’s Dové Gallery, which gathers an international collection of art that’s influenced by comics. Think of these pieces as “graphic poems rather than graphic novels,” Warren Craghead and Pedro Moura suggest. It’s a fruitful approach. Even though the […]
Upon entering the County Office Building yesterday evening, it was apparent that this year’s annual hearing over the $303.7 million proposed budget
After almost five years as PACEM’s first executive director, Dave Norris is moving on.
Cynthia Neff The Daily Progress revealed last week that Albemarle resident Cynthia Neff, a retired IBM vice president of human resources, will challenge four-term Republican Delegate Rob Bell for his seat in the General Assembly. She tells C-VILLE that she decided to run in the waning weeks of the state legislature’s session. “I was […]
President Obama’s first major education speech since taking office, in which he laid out a plan to make America’s education system
So you might not have heard it here first, but regrettably, the firing of Dave Leitao on a Monday afternoon couldn’t have come at a worse time in our production cycle. Dave Leitao’s sideline demeanor raised questions, though more baffling were his wildly varied rotations and his quick hook if players made mistakes. All around, […]
Dear Ace: I am engaged to a beautiful young woman but am having second thoughts about our future together. For example, I prefer to go down to the Mudhouse and purchase a fine, handmade double cappuccino as my morning brew, while she actually prefers to mix up some jarred, mutant instant coffee at our apartment, […]
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. And we’ve started to notice a trend: The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least in the past decade or so. The Cavaliers get a new basketball […]
A photo caption in the March 17 cover story [“Battling again”] misidentified the location where Orange County Supervisor Teri Pace was photographed. The photo was taken at a site Pace suggests would be a good alternative for the proposed Wal-Mart.