Inventors of the year develop improved MRI techniques
John Mugler and James Brookeman walked to the podium and posed for pictures. Erik Hewlett, chair of the UVA Patent Foundation Board of Directors, handed each a shiny plaque.
Stimulus package wards off steep tuition increase
The federal stimulus package has lent some breathing room to UVA’s constricting financial situation. On Monday, April 13, the Board of Visitors approved a lower-than-expected tuition increase for both in-state and out-of-state students. Virginians, who comprise 69 percent of the student population, will pay $375, or 5 percent, more per year to a total of […]
A dozen ways Charlottesville causes climate change
Before we get into the chemical compounds and statistical trends and tonnage numbers sure to scare the hair right off a hippie, let’s you and I define a word. Ambitious. The definition of this adjective, I think we both can agree, rests in the details of one particular plan of President Barack Obama. WHAT’S YOUR […]
Dean Dass’ “Signs of Divinity are Hard to Read”; The Garage; Through April 26
When we were young and studied science in textbooks, there was a clarity to the images on the pages: cells dividing, electrons spinning. The facts of the world seemed just that—facts. What Dean Dass’ new show examines is the idea that clarity and facts are illusions, or at least mutable. Taking old textbook pages, scanning […]
Guitar Hero: Metallica; Activision/Red Octane; Xbox 360/PlayStation 3
It’s somehow appropriate that a Guitar Hero expansion featuring Metallica, the band that became the de facto poster child in the early battles against file sharing, should be the most restrictive one yet. Even though the $60 price tag is the same as what you’d pay for the Guitar Hero World Tour disc, you get […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
Though their cover dominance might suggest that in 20 years C-VILLE has covered nothing artsy but Dave Matthews Band, we want to set the record straight right here and now: Once in a while we have reported on other pressing cultural matters, including the controversy over the state song and the 20 minutes that Georgia […]
The mysteries of Shad Planking revealed
Don’t ask us why, but it cannot be denied that greasy, indigestible foodstuffs and electoral politics fit together like William Howard Taft and his seven-foot presidential tub.
Interference?
Ace: My husband insists, paranoid soul that he is, that there are hordes of spies out there (somewhere) checking on the specific TV programs we are watching. He says we give credibility to such folks as the Octomom by viewing a program on which she’s appearing. He also suggests our political preferences are noted by […]
The receding passion of the NASCAR fan
"Some fans are completely uninhibited, they’ll do whatever the hell they want to have a good time,” Rusty Speidel says over the phone. “They get geared up, they tailgate their brains out, they take the extra time out to travel.” Speidel should know. He’s one of the guys behind Rowdy.com, a NASCAR fan site based […]
Battle continues over Meadowcreek Parkway
If it sounds pretty damn boring to sit through a six-hour meeting, called by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Historic Resources,