Hunter Smith rains love on marching band
Hunter Smith’s love for a marching band knows no end. In keeping with tradition, Mrs. Smith, wife of the late Carl W. Smith, has pledged $10.7 million
Miss Manners, students rail against the rude boys
It is time, America, to be more civil. This was the message handed down on Friday, March 20, in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. America is lacking in manners, and one dead president, one etiquette theorist, and well-mannered college students everywhere are going to do something about it. “Timely and important to society” is […]
Warren Craghead makes huge art in small spaces. So C-VILLE gave him one.
The last thing that local artist Warren Craghead needed was something to keep him up at night—more time to kill, more spaces to fill. A hobby? Pffft. Craghead needs a hobby like he needs another art gallery, one more space to crowd with work. “At this point, the hobby is survival,” Craghead told me two […]
Comics, stripped
I don’t think I can do better than to quote the curators of the show in Second Street’s Dové Gallery, which gathers an international collection of art that’s influenced by comics. Think of these pieces as “graphic poems rather than graphic novels,” Warren Craghead and Pedro Moura suggest. It’s a fruitful approach. Even though the […]
Economic troubles bring solemnity to county budget hearing
Upon entering the County Office Building yesterday evening, it was apparent that this year’s annual hearing over the $303.7 million proposed budget
With Norris stepping down, who will lead homeless efforts?
After almost five years as PACEM’s first executive director, Dave Norris is moving on.
Trying to ring Rob's bell
Cynthia Neff The Daily Progress revealed last week that Albemarle resident Cynthia Neff, a retired IBM vice president of human resources, will challenge four-term Republican Delegate Rob Bell for his seat in the General Assembly. She tells C-VILLE that she decided to run in the waning weeks of the state legislature’s session. “I was […]
Career switchers can earn $30K
President Obama’s first major education speech since taking office, in which he laid out a plan to make America’s education system
So long, Leitao
So you might not have heard it here first, but regrettably, the firing of Dave Leitao on a Monday afternoon couldn’t have come at a worse time in our production cycle. Dave Leitao’s sideline demeanor raised questions, though more baffling were his wildly varied rotations and his quick hook if players made mistakes. All around, […]
"Instant" karma
Dear Ace: I am engaged to a beautiful young woman but am having second thoughts about our future together. For example, I prefer to go down to the Mudhouse and purchase a fine, handmade double cappuccino as my morning brew, while she actually prefers to mix up some jarred, mutant instant coffee at our apartment, […]