“Tired of Castro urinating on us”

With Fidel Castro having at last passed off power permanently, C-VILLE decided to pillage the audio archive at the Miller Center to take a trip back in the presidential time machine. Bypassing the more well-known Kennedy era, we opted to pull a few telephone tapes from Lyndon Johnson’s administration, and found this exchange with Senator […]

The hidden life of UVA

Kathy Tejano Year: Senior Age: 21 Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia Major: Systems engineering, with economics minor What’s in your backpack? Snowboard magazine, notebook, schedule, Personal Finance, green iPod mini, flash drive, chocolate chip granola bar, UVA sweatshirt, water bottle, pens, pencils, eraser, cell phone, wallet, contact lens solution, contact lens case, Portuguese/English mini dictionary, a couple […]

Up in smoke

More features: Salvia 101 What is it? It might be legal, but there’s still a stigmaA high school newspaper censors a student journalists attempt to write about salvia use In the name of God, leave salvia alone!The Rutherford Institute’s John Whitehead weighs in I am still unable to comprehend that the drug has taken hold. […]

Salvia 101

More features: Up in smoke Practically unknown, salvia will soon become the latest casualty in the War on Drugs It might be legal, but there’s still a stigmaA high school newspaper censors a student journalists attempt to write about salvia use In the name of God, leave salvia alone!The Rutherford Institute’s John Whitehead weighs in […]

In the name of God, leave salvia alone!

More features: Up in smoke Practically unknown, salvia will soon become the latest casualty in the War on Drugs Salvia 101 What is it? It might be legal, but there’s still a stigmaA high school newspaper censors a student journalists attempt to write about salvia use John Whitehead says that bills like HB21, Del. John […]

It might be legal, but there’s still a stigma

More features: Up in smoke Practically unknown, salvia will soon become the latest casualty in the War on Drugs Salvia 101 What is it? In the name of God, leave salvia alone!The Rutherford Institute’s John Whitehead weighs in Recently the editorial board of the school’s newspaper shut down Western Albemarle senior Scot Masselli when he […]

Will my taxes go up?

Local budget season has come early this season, in case you haven’t noticed. Thanks to a change in the law, the city and county officials have had to scratch together a proposal much earlier than they did last year. So here at C-VILLE, we’ve cast a dutiful eye to the budget situation. The city budget […]

Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco

I spend the first five minutes of Cirque du Soleil’s opening night at the John Paul Jones Arena, the first performance in a five-night stand by the Canadian-spectacle-gone-Vegas-glitz-fest, not writing a thing. Instead, I mutter awed syllables with the people around me, cutting phrases like “Did you see that?” and “How’d those trapeze artists pull […]

Car business ain’t booming [March 1]

Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. (Ford and GM models are selling much worse for […]