What's in your backpack?

Dana Wheeles Age: 30 Year: Graduate student Concentration: Art history Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Dana Wheeles What’s in your backpack? Keys on a carabiner, leather wallet, iPod, headphones, 8 cents in change, pens, Volkswagen key fob, lip gloss, Sharpie, MacBook Pro attachments. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.

City, county come together on transit authority

Being a Charlottesville Transit System regular has its problems. Dr. Ivy Hinton is always late for her meetings, and has to walk half a mile every night in the dark to get home. She is a lecturer at UVA’s School of Nursing and has relied on the bus system since January when her car broke […]

Food costs rise, but school prices won't

In about a week, area children will start drifting into city and county schools as their summer ends and educational instruction resumes. A long summer of continually rising costs of fuel and food means the pockets of their parents are lighter and consequently so are theirs. Fortunately, the price of their school meals will not […]

Expanding the recruiting base

C-VILLE contacted the UVA athletic department for this story and got a response from Executive Associate Athletics Director Jon Oliver, but too late to incorporate into the story. Here are Oliver’s answers to our questions about the University’s spending on athletic recruiting, which at $1.2 million has gone up 80 percent in the last five […]

The Gilmore gaffes

Political pop quiz #314: Let’s say you’re a former governor of Virginia who has improbably clawed his way into the U.S. Senate race, besting a moderate (and moderately popular) congressional bigwig by relentlessly courting the party’s right-wing base, and then reaping the benefits when the Commonwealth’s conservative coronation is switched from the traditional general primary […]

Sizing up the new Jacket

Of all the bands on the ATO Records roster—including those impressive Brit-wits, Radiohead—no group exemplifies the label’s commitment to making careers rather than records than My Morning Jacket. Since the release of It Still Moves in 2003, the Jacket has released roughly one album or EP each year on ATO Records, save a dry spell […]

Home team advantage

After years of tweaking, polishing and adding features, the guys at EA Tiburon have finally pinned most of the elements of simulated college football down, leaving the developers free to focus on what really matters. Mascot games. No, seriously, while it’s certainly hysterical to watch a front line of Bucky Badgers side-flipping through the hapless […]

Got scrip?

Hear that giant sucking sound of greenbacks whooshing down voracious twin vortexes of grocery store and gas station? Consider getting rid of currency altogether and trading directly with your fellow citizens. What I found, taking a dip in the local barter scene, is a bit more complicated. Bartering can be a one-time event or a […]