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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 • […]
Live Arts Dance Festival clarifies where the form must go from here
The Live Arts Dance Festival, which took place over the past two weekends in downtown Charlottesville, presented a rather thorough view of what’s working in the local dance scene—and what […]