If there is one phone number saved into political reporters’ cell phones, at the top of their speed dials, burned into the muscle memory of their collective index finger, it is that of UVA politics professor and director of the Center for Politics Larry Sabato. Even way back in 1994, The Wall Street Journal called […]
UVA environmental science Professor James Galloway returned from a class on the nitrogen cascade [pdf] in February to find a strange message on his voicemail, a man saying he would call back at 1:30pm. “Every now and then I get prank calls from people with solutions to pollution and things like that, so I was […]
Melissa Lockwood Age: 21 Year: Senior Major: Double major in Studio Art and American Studies What’s in your backpack: Three notebooks, wallet, makeup bag, crossword puzzles from a desk calendar, headphones, Altoids, empty water bottle, two Ziploc bags (one containing tea bags), bills, torn pages from a teen magazine for a paper assignment, empty Absolut […]
The new dean announcements are coming fast and furiously from UVA. In late April, it was the much anticipated new head of Arts & Sciences, Meredith Jung-En Woo, and now it’s Dorrie K. Fontaine, who has been appointed dean of the School of Nursing. University President John Casteen made the announcement last Friday afternoon in […]
Dear Ace: I saw Howie Long on the Downtown Mall the other day and he was looking kind of small. Think you could take him?—B. Igshot B: When Ace was but a wee boy, a poolside confrontation with the neighborhood thug (during which Ace was left pantsless and crying) taught him that he’s a lover, […]
You know, if we could pilot the political way-back machine to 1851 and change just one thing about Virginia’s cobbled-together…
In the foreword to her third collection, “Slowpoke” cartoonist Jen Sorensen, Charlottesville resident and C-VILLE regular, argues that political comic strips retain their relevance even years after initial publication. As if to underscore her point, one of the first few strips in One Nation, Oh My God! indirectly references the Swift Boat scandal that surrounded […]
The needle of the record player hits the 7" slab of transparent red vinyl with a small pop, and you’ve already surpassed the experience of listening to an mp3. Now it slips into the first groove and “Vital Joys” by longtime local rock troopers Worn in Red comes shooting from the speakers. Listen to "Vital […]
On March 4, Scottsville resident Woody Ward received a distressing call from his friend Andy Waldeck. A diminutive thief had apparently crawled through the dog door of Waldeck’s house in Nelson County and stolen a load of stuff—digital cameras, some jewelry and musical instruments—including two basses that belonged to Ward. “I guess they pretty much […]
Kevin Strom’s long journey through the court system concluded on April 21, when he was sentenced to 23 months in jail, with credit for time already served. That sentence followed his January guilty plea for one count of child pornography, which carried a maximum penalty of 10 years and a possible $250,000 fine, plus a […]