Celebrating Obama with Monroe

READ MORE FROM OUR INAUGURATION FEATURE • QCC hails our Organizer in Chief Community connection • Barack in the John Paul Jones Alone in a crowd, eyes trained on history • What your dreams of Obama say about you or, Night school • How C-VILLE’s arts guy spent 48 hours covering Obama’s inauguration We’re off […]

Ground Zero steps up

Kat Legault has this thing she does in “Poor Edward,” a piece that’s part of this weekend’s portion of the  Live Arts Dance Festival.

Rated FU for Restricted

Dear Ace: I see a few vehicles driving around Charlottesville with license plates that have FARM USE in bold red letters. What does this mean? Are these vehicles insured like any other vehicle?—Mitch Fork Mitch: Father Atkins might be cross with Ace after he finishes revealing this, but when Ace was a young man, his […]

Where there’s smoke…

You remember November 2008, right? That magical time of hope and rejoicing for Virginia’s once-beleaguered Democrats, who rode a wave of Obama-inspired optimism to record gains,

Artistic license

I do not normally hawk artworks in reviews, but buying something from the current show at The Bridge would be a very good deed.

Rethinking the ‘‘I’’ in design

Alloy Workshop was formed two years ago this January as a partnership between licensed architect and contractor, Dan Zimmerman, and licensed contractor and carpenter, Zach Snider. In the past year, the firm has added a graphic design studio headed by Zimmerman’s wife, Serena Gruia, to the mix. The firm now has two architects (Zimmerman and […]

Visible, invisible

Call this a tale of two public designs. They’re both local, but they’re very different from each other. One is a system of signs that points visitors toward the Downtown Mall. You’ve seen them: They’re in primary colors, enclosed in black metal frames, and they bear the silhouettes of the three presidents we claim as […]

Design for a new time

For this year’s Design Annual issue, we began as we usually do when brainstorming a story. We sat around a table and talked about what we thought was cool and what we thought was worthy of criticism. New buildings, old buildings, funky graphic t-shirts, pretty plantings—plenty of local designs and designers’ names came up in […]

Their favorite things

Omnitech 1Gig Flash Drive “[It] has it all…looks, brains, and brawn. It has a capsule-like body with a soft rubber, black matte coating that makes it more fun than a flash drive should be to handle. The cap slides on and off with a reassuring glide and stop, no Swiss Army knife folding nonsense.”—Rob Tarbell, […]