Catching up with Harry Harding
Harry Harding, a political and policy expert and prominent China scholar, was appointed first dean of UVA’s Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy last week.
The big one that didn't get away
Last Wednesday was national signing day for high school seniors preparing to play college football, and beleaguered UVA Head Coach Al Groh got a lift when Morgan Moses, a highly regarded 6’7" 330-pound offensive lineman from Richmond, announced at a press conference that he’s coming to Charlottesville by unzipping a jacket to reveal a Virginia […]
What's in your backpack?
Trevor Piersol Age: 21 Year: Junior Hometown: Richmond Major: History What’s in your backpack? The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, Integrated Chinese textbook and workbook, notebooks for environmental science and Chinese classes, T1-83 graphic calculator, cycling headlamp, Fata Morgana DVD, pack of tissues, Sweet Mint flavor Orbit gum, highlighter, six pens, three pencils, paper […]
Heart and soul
Thoughts of Valentine’s Day conjure up certain stock images: boxes of candy and cards with sweet messages lining store shelves and racks, someone making a frantic, last-minute phone call to a florist, total cynics (or just plain victims of a corporate holiday) sticking their fingers in their open mouths and fake-retching. But, come on, there […]
Construction criticism
Dear Ace: If there are any more construction projects along Water Street that gobble up the street behind fences for their own use, we won’t be able to drive on it anymore. How do those private operations get to claim public roadways for their own use? Do they pay anything to the city for inconveniencing […]
Cringe-inducing Cantor, Connolly and Moran
Look, we know that Thomas Jefferson set a pretty high bar, oratory-wise, for Virginia’s vote-chasers. And so we certainly don’t expect every single utterance from our elected officials to reach the prosaic level of the Declaration of Independence (or even “A Summary View of the Rights of British America”). But come on, people! Whatever proud […]
Charlottesville looks for its slice of Obama’s $820B stimulus package
President Obama’s $820 billion economic stimulus package, including its green infrastructure component, cleared the House January 28 and headed to the Senate for debate. Obama’s plan attempts to create jobs quickly through a mix of tax cuts and spending on health care, education and construction on the one hand and, on the other hand, to […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re now into the second month of our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and revisited Market Street Wineshop’s Robert Harllee’s secret to staying […]
Architecture prof John Quale marries green and affordable in a housing revolution
READ MORE • The halls (and roofs and floors) of learning “Daddy, look what I made.” “That’s beautiful. But you know what, the adults are trying to have a conversation right now. So can you go in the other room and draw until Mommy gets home?” “O.K., Daddy.” Five-year-old Alice trots back into the kitchen […]
The halls (and roofs and floors) of learning
ecoMOD1: the OUTin house, 2005 Partner: Piedmont Housing Authority • Two-unit condo built from eight small modules in Charlottesville’s Fifeville neighborhood • Designed to merge outdoor and indoor spaces • Includes first potable rainwater collection system in the city ecoMOD2: the preHAB house, 2006 Partner: Habitat for Humanity • Built in post-Katrina southern Mississippi • […]