It’s a massacre in mascara…a grunting, groaning grip-up…a titanic tussle between ferocious femme fatales! To wrestle—excuse me, wrassle—with the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, the menacing collection of palm-smacking, bone-cracking beauties, you simply need to be a woman. But to win? Oh, my darlings, you must be ruthless. For exclusive video from filmmaker Brian Wimer’s upcoming […]
It’s a massacre in mascara…a grunting, groaning grip-up…a titanic tussle between ferocious femme fatales! To wrestle—excuse me, wrassle—with the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, the menacing collection of palm-smacking, bone-cracking beauties, you simply need to be a woman. But to win? Oh, my darlings, you must be ruthless. For exclusive video from filmmaker Brian Wimer’s upcoming […]
“Some of those early crowded CLAW days, you’d have to show up an hour early and get a space,” says local photographer Billy Hunt. “You could not move from that space for the entire event because it was just a big ol’ box of sweaty, crazy sardines. “Now it’s more comfortable, but I really do […]
You can’t have a frenzy nowadays without it being part media frenzy, and local filmmaker Brian Wimer has CLAW in his sights. At the November 7 release party for Billy Hunt’s A CLAW to Remember, Wimer will also sell copies of CLAW: Women Getting a Grip, the first of two short films documenting the local […]
About five years ago, while hosting a party for the Charlottesville 10-miler, Bill Hinckley got
Last March, somewhere around 2,000 churchgoers amassed in University Hall to show their support for the social justice advocacy group IMPACT
Only U.S. citizens can vote for the next American president. However, Charlottesville’s foreign guests and legal resident aliens have done what they could to influence the outcome before sitting on the sidelines on November 4. Tanya Omeltchenko and her husband received green cards after six years in the United States. She asks, “Why is it […]
Job title: Recreation program supervisor. Smith organizes, plans and implements everything from summer camp to sports leagues. Has worked for the county for: 15 years Resides in: Albemarle County Best of times: The middle school sports program’s track meet at Walton Middle School. “Getting 300 kids together and having it all happen by sunset —that’s […]
New Mexico Governor and former Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson took the stage at the Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School on October 31 on behalf of Barack Obama. Speaking to a crowd of hundreds, Richardson, who publicly endorsed the Illinois senator after ending his own bid for the White […]
UVA’s School of Architecture has lost two key senior faculty and a dean this year. This might sound like a precipitous situation, but members of the faculty regard the loss as a recurring cycle. “It is normal for a school to have a turnover in faculty,” says Associate Professor William Sherman. “Especially a school […]
The UVA football team, which last year set an NCAA record by winning five games by 2 or fewer points, suffered a heartbreaking run-in with the law of averages on November 1, losing at home in overtime to Miami, 24-17. “Well, we’ve been on the other end of that deal before,” said Head Coach Al […]