Schools pick wrong on closure toss-up

Parents of city and county schools gave it to administrators for not calling off school when it snowed last week. Many (if not all) city and county parents of school-age children were livid January 17, when school officials opted not to call it off like surrounding counties—and instead did so two hours into the school […]

Correction from January 15 issue

Due to production and proofreading errors, the grid in last week’s crossword puzzle didn’t correspond to the questions below it, making the puzzle impossible to solve, even for all the crossword puzzle experts out there. To make amends, in this issue we’re running last week’s corrected puzzle (page 44 of print issue), as well as […]

Building a history

Additional reporting by Jayson Whitehead and Scott Weaver WARNING: The things you are about to see may baffle you. With a few exceptions, these are the places that you didn’t expect anyone to care about, or at least not anyone in Charlottesville. But Charlottesville isn’t Disney’s Thomas Jefferson Land. We have some buildings that reflect […]

2008 Design Annual: Intelligent design

When you think of design in Charlottesville, you probably think of UVA’s Lawn and the Rotunda and Monticello and blah bity blah, blah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But do you also think of Booker T. Washington Park? Blue Light Grill? The Live Arts building? The silkscreened posters for the Wilco show at the Pavilion? You should.