Patrick Rave Age: 23 Year: Senior Hometown: Orange County, Virginia Major: Civil engineering What’s in your backpack? TI-89 calculator, agenda, specs for a washer/dryer combo, a DVD of El Viaje Entretenido: Historia Virtual del Teatro Espanol, keys, wallet, Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood’s CD Out Louder, an e-mail print-out about Charlottesville vegetation, microbiology notes, notebook […]
Patrick Rave Age: 23 Year: Senior Hometown: Orange County, Virginia Major: Civil engineering What’s in your backpack? TI-89 calculator, agenda, specs for a washer/dryer combo, a DVD of El Viaje Entretenido: Historia Virtual del Teatro Espanol, keys, wallet, Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood’s CD Out Louder, an e-mail print-out about Charlottesville vegetation, microbiology notes, notebook […]
About 25 students slept in hastily assembled shelters at the UVA amphitheater on April 2, a way of raising awareness for the need for more affordable housing. The students held a “Shack-a-thon” contest that involved building shelters out of recycled cardboard boxes. The event was organized by the UVA Campus Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
The Daily Progress reports today that, while a committee of city residents and officials has chosen a design for the future interchange at the 250 Bypass and McIntire Road, there’s one wee problem…
The County Office Building had the air of a festival yesterday, with pizza and root beer, signs and stickers, WINA AM radio set up with a live broadcast on the front steps.
Just one of the great things about freedom of speech? Advertisements for booze in college newspapers.
At last, a possible explanation for why our city attracts members of the Grateful Dead and Phish…
Dear Ace: Can you find out who this Buford character was? And why did they name a middle school after him?—Ed Ukate Ed: Although Ace loves nothing more than to sink his teeth into a good “Why’s such and such named such and such?” question, might he just take this moment to point out your […]
More features: Your dinner starts now Local food is sprouting, and spring’s the time to buy in Local CSA farmsFrom Appalachia Star Farm to Roundabout Farm As a movement, local food ain’t all sweetness and light. The recent legal troubles of Double H farm —and the righteous indignation of its supporters, both covered extensively in […]
Not even a year out of UVA and the 6 Day Bender boys have tapped deep into our region’s rural music pulse.
To start off, let’s leave “Mad World” out of this. It’s one of those wildly symbiotic soundtrack situations where the song moves through the scene like a vine along brick. It’s that inextricable, but Gary Jules has moved on from his version of the Tears for Fears tune used in the film Donnie Darko. Tonight, […]