Get your freak on!
The inaugural C-Fest event, dubbed Freakfest by the event's creator/mad scientist Lance Brenner, packed the Satellite Ballroom with two stages and 10 bands on Saturday, September 8.
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Get your freak on!
Photos from the first C-Fest event
The inaugural C-Fest event, dubbed Freakfest by the event's creator/mad scientist Lance Brenner, packed the Satellite Ballroom with two stages and 10 bands on Saturday, September 8.
John Hammond, with Thomas Gunn
music At the corner of Rugby Road and Grady Avenue, the stink of cheap beer is in the air. By 10pm or so, lines will begin to form at the front doors of houses along both streets—students eager to connect with other students, to speculate on the following day’s football game against Duke, to speculate […]
Looking to learn from VT panel
The panel appointed by Governor Tim Kaine to investigate the April 16 incident at Virginia Tech released its findings and recommendations last week, and neither Tech nor the Commonwealth came out unscathed. Tech’s gaffes, according to the eight-member panel, include not connecting the dots to get mental health help for shooter Seung-Hui Cho and not […]
Would UVA allow guns on campus?
Capitalizing on fears from high-profile school shootings, a national grassroots organization has formed at universities and colleges that advocates for the right to carry concealed weapons on campus. According to their website, Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC), citing events at Columbine and Virginia Tech, contend "the only way to stop mass murders…is to […]
Local vet groups quietly meet needs
Ray Durand's garage stands tucked away behind his white brick house on Pantops. John Miska unloads donations from Bed, Bath & Beyond out of the bed of his old red pickup truck. Miska lugs another box past Durand.
When the chess team is normal
The thermometer has (we hope) dropped below 90 degrees and crosswalks on the Corner are crowding with bright young things out to buy sheets and shower shoes. Once again, fall term is starting at UVA. Eager freshmen are meandering through Central Grounds in packs, checking out the fraternities and practicing their best Sarah McLachlan for […]
Supes candidates address Biscuit Run
With the biggest residential development in county history, Biscuit Run, set for public hearing on September 12, and an election for three of the candidates who will be voting on the project set for November 6, we decided to put two and two together. C-VILLE gave each candidate 80 words to respond in writing to […]
Bond-ing time
While Left of Center, the youngish Dem and "Dem curious" group, is no stranger to high-profile speakers, most of those profiles are on the local level—state politicians, UVA profs, Charlottesville activists.
The doctor isn't in
Dear Ace: If you’re at UVA, what’s that big house you can see across the way from Newcomb Hall? It looks highly historical. —Fool on the hill Fool: That’s not saying a whole lot, huh? Throw a rock south of Forest Lakes and you’re bound to do some property damage on something that’s "highly historical," […]
Off track?
The close-cropped, brown-eyed bulk of a young man sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 9, 2000, and offered his thanks to the…