Willie Drake makes the most out of being a mountain man Willie Drake, founder of world-renowned Mountain Lumber Co., a reclaimed wood and millwork company in Ruckersville with a showroom in the Main Street Market, says he fell in love with salvaging abandoned wood timbers from old barns and factories “long before I was an […]
Recycled cardboard deer trophy from Galen A. Wright of Cardboard Safari. $52 at Blue Ridge Eco Shop. Vintage reproduction Chippendale bench reupholstered in burlap. $895 at And George. Giraffe made of 100 percent […]
The American Festivals Project at The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative documents the 40,000-mile journey of artist-explorers Ross McDermott and Andrew Owen, who investigated 37 “subculture gatherings” in 2008 and 2009. It may not be the most original idea for an exhibition—I have an aunt and uncle who travel to see things like the world’s largest […]
It has been a difficult two weeks for former Virginia Governor and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tim Kaine, and, by the look of it, things are not going to get better any time soon. “It appears that it’s going to be a job and a half,” as Virginia Delegate Kenneth Plum put it to […]
Last year, Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined. Now Live Arts has revived Nottage’s 2003 play Intimate Apparel, set in 1905,
The Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (BCNA) finally got to speak its mind on what many consider the severe noise problem in Belmont’s commercial zone
Hall of Fame Head Coach Debbie Ryan has seen some pretty spectacular players during her 33 years at the helm of Virginia women’s basketball. Cathy Grimes. Donna Holt. Dawn Staley. They won national accolades, set records in their time, and had their numbers retired. Yet none of them scored as many points as current senior […]
UVA President John Casteen has been highly successful in raising money for the University. Last September, despite the struggling economy, UVA raised $2 billion and it’s now in the home stretch to reach its goal for its $3 billion capital campaign. Evidently, Casteen really likes fundraising. In fact, sometime in September, just one month after […]
The new batch of McGuffey Art Center members have put together a solid show to introduce themselves, and the artists honor the building’s roots as an elementary school, with, among others, Peter Krebs’ skyscapes presenting views you might see at recess, and Amber Zavada’s earnest earthwork constructions lining the halls. “Aquarian Woman” and “Soul […]
So Ace, apparently the UVA Medical School has a department devoted to reincarnation studies?—Sam Sarrah For the record, Ace is skeptical about reincarnation. It’s not that he’s never had mystical experiences of a past life; it’s just that his seem to indicate that, once upon a time, he was either Sam Spade or Chubby […]