It’s no secret that the City of Charlottesville was disappointed with the 2000 census. In general, the more people, the more federal and state dollars, and originally the 2000 census concluded that 45,049 folks lived in the city. But Albemarle County quickly noticed that one block at UVA had zero responses, and the city joined […]
It’s no secret that the City of Charlottesville was disappointed with the 2000 census. In general, the more people, the more federal and state dollars, and originally the 2000 census concluded that 45,049 folks lived in the city. But Albemarle County quickly noticed that one block at UVA had zero responses, and the city joined […]
“I think we do a terrible job at explaining what engineering is,” says UVA Professor Pamela Norris. When people think of engineers, she says, what they envision is often an unromantic view of machinery. “A lot of women go into the biomedical sciences and they become doctors because they want to help people,” says Norris. […]
Dear Ace: I recently moved my mailbox to my front porch and my postman stopped delivering my mail! I complained at the post office and was told that my mailbox’s new position added an extra six seconds to my postman’s route, so he refused to visit it. What’s up with that?—Male Barrier Barrier: First of […]
“Crystal,” the second girl photographed during Playboy’s “Girls of the ACC” casting call stop at the University of Virginia, is lying on a bed atop a fleece UVA Athletics blanket. She may be wearing a swimsuit, or perhaps lingerie she brought for the audition; her breasts are either covered or bared for the camera.
Alex Solomon Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Majors: Spanish/Biology Hometown: Falls Church, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Sperry Top-Sider shoes, Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, class book and notebook for Spanish 312, iPod, tie, prescription medicine, calculator, cell phone, highlighters, pencils, pens, Neosporin, tissues, Band-Aids. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
A sentence in the March 31 cover story [“Here, there and everywhere”] incorrectly described artist Warren Craghead’s January 2009 exhibit at Migration: A Gallery as “digital collage prints from [his] 2007 book, How To Be Everywhere.” Rather, the show featured original drawings and collages from Craghead that used digital processes in their planning stages. C-VILLE […]
Sailing along in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE, we note this week one of the very few instances when we lagged in our cheerleading for a certain local musician whose name rhymes with Mave Datthews. We figured we better get this one out of […]
By funneling his sea of cash into his organization, The Macker (i.e. Terry McAuliffe) secured the top spot on the Democratic gubernatorial primary ballot. It’s certainly no coincidence that so many hackneyed political catchphrases have a decidedly financial slant. From “dialing for dollars” to “the buck stops here,” there’s not a single part of […]
With this, the 13th issue of the year, we’re 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 cannot deny a trend: Certain names keep coming up, often associated with grand ideas that sometimes…fizzle later. Need an example? Here’s one: […]
Ace: What’s up with the trailer full of books at the back of McIntire Recycling Center? I see people hanging around in there when I drop off my empties. Is it a secret library?—Red Tolstoy Dear Red: Although Ace Atkins isn’t exactly a literary guy, he likes to have a number of serious books on […]