QCC hails our Organizer in Chief

Quick, what’s the link between the White House and Charlottesville’s Jefferson School? If you said “community organizing,” you got it right. READ MORE FROM OUR INAUGURATION FEATURE • Celebrating Obama with Monroe At Ash Lawn, talk is all "timid feeders on the lagoon" • Barack in the John Paul Jones Alone in a crowd, eyes […]

What your dreams of Obama say about you

What: “Dreams of Obama” Where: 211 W. Main St. When: Tuesday, January 20 The day itself was like a dream—maybe even that dream where you’re taking the oath of office in front of millions and you flub it—so why shouldn’t the evening end with dreams as a theme? After all, Barack Obama himself has penned […]

Celebrating Obama with Monroe

READ MORE FROM OUR INAUGURATION FEATURE • QCC hails our Organizer in Chief Community connection • Barack in the John Paul Jones Alone in a crowd, eyes trained on history • What your dreams of Obama say about you or, Night school • How C-VILLE’s arts guy spent 48 hours covering Obama’s inauguration We’re off […]

Ground Zero steps up

Kat Legault has this thing she does in “Poor Edward,” a piece that’s part of this weekend’s portion of the  Live Arts Dance Festival.

Rated FU for Restricted

Dear Ace: I see a few vehicles driving around Charlottesville with license plates that have FARM USE in bold red letters. What does this mean? Are these vehicles insured like any other vehicle?—Mitch Fork Mitch: Father Atkins might be cross with Ace after he finishes revealing this, but when Ace was a young man, his […]

Where there’s smoke…

You remember November 2008, right? That magical time of hope and rejoicing for Virginia’s once-beleaguered Democrats, who rode a wave of Obama-inspired optimism to record gains,

Artistic license

I do not normally hawk artworks in reviews, but buying something from the current show at The Bridge would be a very good deed.

Rethinking the ‘‘I’’ in design

Alloy Workshop was formed two years ago this January as a partnership between licensed architect and contractor, Dan Zimmerman, and licensed contractor and carpenter, Zach Snider. In the past year, the firm has added a graphic design studio headed by Zimmerman’s wife, Serena Gruia, to the mix. The firm now has two architects (Zimmerman and […]

Visible, invisible

Call this a tale of two public designs. They’re both local, but they’re very different from each other. One is a system of signs that points visitors toward the Downtown Mall. You’ve seen them: They’re in primary colors, enclosed in black metal frames, and they bear the silhouettes of the three presidents we claim as […]