Each November, the New Oxford American Dictionary celebrates one new word that’s garnered serious cultural currency in the past year. In 2008, it was “hypermiling,” or to maximize gas mileage through extreme driving practices. This year, “unfriend”—deleting a friend on a social networking site—got the neologistic nod. Every year new words are welcomed with pomp […]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Invisible Alphabet Show. The format of today’s program will be 45 revolutions-per-minute 7" vinyl, that tried-and-true audio format introduced 60 years ago by RCA. We’ve got two contestants, each staking their claim on one side of this shiny black record. Both will have approximately four minutes to deliver a […]
Viewers aren’t given a title or theme for this year’s faculty show at Piedmont Virginia Community College, and with 10 different artists united only by the fact that they all teach there, one wouldn’t expect to find much in common. But this year the works—from Rebekah Wostrel’s monotone porcelain with small moments of ornamentation to […]
Ice, ice, baby—too cold? Too much? It’s been about 14 years since we received a winter wallop like the snow-smacking we got last weekend. And when C-VILLE revisited our coverage of the blizzard of 1996, we found that our city deals with nearly two feet of the fluffy white stuff the same way it did […]
Landmark Hotel owner Halsey Minor was true to his word.
Joe Baber has found a unique solution to a problem affecting recent college grads nationwide.
Like building a tolerable “best of” list, finding the perfect holiday gift can be confusing. That’s why C-VILLE asked UVA faculty to tell us about their favorite book that came out in 2009. Read on, and happy holidays. Marianne Baernholdt, Nursing Little Bee, by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster) “In Britain where it was first […]
The Lighting of the Lawn is a UVA tradition that started in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks. Last year, UVA students, with the help of Dominion Virginia Power, made the switch from incandescent light bulbs to LED, for an estimated savings of 1,300 kWh of electricity. Here’s more on the Lighting of […]
Rodney Thomas and Duane Snow officially became new members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors last Wednesday,
It may look like the budget office’s $40 million projection for capital improvements in 2011