Stack Boyz go big for unruly crowd
There’s something of a local hip-hop renaissance going on right now, and Stack Boyz are at the heart of it. Whether the crowds at a Stack Boyz gig will let that heart keep pumping is another matter.
Thomas Jefferson Center unchains free speech with the 2009 Muzzle Awards
Usually it’s a good thing to receive a free t-shirt and get your name in the paper, but not if you’re a winner of a Muzzle Award from Charlottesville’s Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Each spring members of the Center’s Board of Trustees decide who should be distinguished (around Mr. Jefferson’s […]
A timeline of the Landmark Hotel tragedy
The Landmark Hotel—intended to become a 10-story boutique luxury hotel with 101 rooms, a five-star restaurant, and a roof top bar—started as a $30 million project that even the Board of Architectural Review could love. Now, only Mother Nature is working on the skeletal tower that stands as a sardonic reminder of the times.
City Councilor argues IMPACT ignores complexities
Since first convening in 2006, the social change advocacy group IMPACT (Interfaith Movement Promoting Action by Congregations Together) has held its so-called Nehemiah Action every March. While the meeting is conducted under the auspices of requiring social justice from local government leaders, the gathering always has a festive feel. This year, the mood was perfectly […]
Charlottesville preps early for 2010 census
It’s no secret that the City of Charlottesville was disappointed with the 2000 census. In general, the more people, the more federal and state dollars, and originally the 2000 census concluded that 45,049 folks lived in the city. But Albemarle County quickly noticed that one block at UVA had zero responses, and the city joined […]
Women still scarce in UVA engineering programs
“I think we do a terrible job at explaining what engineering is,” says UVA Professor Pamela Norris. When people think of engineers, she says, what they envision is often an unromantic view of machinery. “A lot of women go into the biomedical sciences and they become doctors because they want to help people,” says Norris. […]
Address the issue
Dear Ace: I recently moved my mailbox to my front porch and my postman stopped delivering my mail! I complained at the post office and was told that my mailbox’s new position added an extra six seconds to my postman’s route, so he refused to visit it. What’s up with that?—Male Barrier Barrier: First of […]
Behind the scenes at “Girls of the ACC”
“Crystal,” the second girl photographed during Playboy’s “Girls of the ACC” casting call stop at the University of Virginia, is lying on a bed atop a fleece UVA Athletics blanket. She may be wearing a swimsuit, or perhaps lingerie she brought for the audition; her breasts are either covered or bared for the camera.
What’s in your backpack?
Alex Solomon Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Majors: Spanish/Biology Hometown: Falls Church, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Sperry Top-Sider shoes, Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, class book and notebook for Spanish 312, iPod, tie, prescription medicine, calculator, cell phone, highlighters, pencils, pens, Neosporin, tissues, Band-Aids. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com.
Correction from the March 31 issue
A sentence in the March 31 cover story [“Here, there and everywhere”] incorrectly described artist Warren Craghead’s January 2009 exhibit at Migration: A Gallery as “digital collage prints from [his] 2007 book, How To Be Everywhere.” Rather, the show featured original drawings and collages from Craghead that used digital processes in their planning stages. C-VILLE […]