Feel free to insert a corny “Georgia On My Mind” reference here: UVA continued its role as tennis whipping boy to the University of Georgia. In the NCAA men’s semifinals tennis championships in Tulsa, Georgia knocked the Cavaliers out of the NCAA tournament with a 4-3 victory, the first and only loss of UVA’s season. […]
Feel free to insert a corny “Georgia On My Mind” reference here: UVA continued its role as tennis whipping boy to the University of Georgia. In the NCAA men’s semifinals tennis championships in Tulsa, Georgia knocked the Cavaliers out of the NCAA tournament with a 4-3 victory, the first and only loss of UVA’s season. […]
Michael Thurston Age: 23 Year: Fifth Major: Studio art/painting Hometown: Virginia BeachWhat’s in your backpack? White t-shirt, plastic grocery bag, two pencils (one of which is broken), one unlabeled CD, a Yuengling bottle cap, three ounces of loose sand, extension cord, computer speakers from a 2000 Gateway computer.
Art galleries are a bit like the Hokey Pokey—either your left foot is headed in, or your left foot is out. Maybe you’re the type of person that makes time in your life to see John Doe Michelangelo’s latest oil paintings, and maybe you’re not. These two types of people are as separate as collage […]
Due to a reporting error, May 31’s “Final Exam” cover story incorrectly stated that Amuse-Bouche was UVA’s oldest improv group. In fact, The Whethermen improv group is the oldest, performing four shows a year in front of audiences ranging between 150 and more than 250 people.
Live Arts’ latest offering is a vigorous and charming production of Amy Freed’s mess of a comedy about the Shakespeare authorship question, The Beard of Avon.
With a vote on May 19, City Council O.K.’d the decommissioning of Smith Pool, which is adjacent to Buford Middle School off Cherry Avenue. The utilitarian swimming lanes will be replaced by a new $10 million Smith Aquatic and Wellness Center, with six lap lanes in addition to a play zone at a maximum depth […]
We’ve all heard of brain food, and the debut book of poems from Kevin McFadden, associate program director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, is a full-course meal for the gray matter. One of a handful of books in the new Virginia Quarterly Review Poetry Series, Hardscrabble offers pun after home-cooked pun, and the […]
O.K., let’s get one important thing out of the way: Everything you’ve heard is true, both the bad and the good.
In the coming summer months, when Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) organizer Harold Folley knocks on doors and talks to folks about the 2008 elections, inevitably some will tell him that they aren’t able to vote.
At the same time that Charlottesville’s homeless population is growing, so are the efforts to help them. After conflicts with city government and lack of funds have forced the Hope Community Center to close a homeless shelter, another attempt to help the homeless took place Saturday, May 17, when people congregated in Kegler’s for the […]