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.
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Ground Zero steps up
Live Arts Dance Festival; Program A Featuring Zen Monkey Project and Ground Zero Dance Live Arts; Thursday, January 22
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, […]
Our favorite things
Modern for a change Why do we love the two new additions to Campbell Hall, home to UVA’s School of Architecture? First, because of Dean Karen van Lengen’s smart and plucky decision to hire her own faculty members to design them. W.G. Clark’s tall East Wing, which presents a striking translucent face to Rugby Road, […]
Finding work in a down cycle
A few short years ago, just about any site in the Charlottesville area seemed viable for redevelopment, whether it was currently occupied by 100-year-old houses, a historic church or public housing. Banks were lending, money was flowing, and everybody’s cousin had a development idea within reach. Welcome to 2009. In a climate like this, when […]