Frank Batten, Sr. knows a good idea when he sees one. The retired chair of Landmark Communications ran a very lucrative media company that includes Richmond’s Style Weekly. And while that alt weekly is well stocked in restaurant and futon ads, it has its share of racy content, too. A recent edition included teases for […]
Frank Batten, Sr. knows a good idea when he sees one. The retired chair of Landmark Communications ran a very lucrative media company that includes Richmond’s Style Weekly. And while that alt weekly is well stocked in restaurant and futon ads, it has its share of racy content, too. A recent edition included teases for […]
A dove in flight: to many, a symbol of peace; to some, a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Yet UVA religion professor and evangelical Christian Charles Marsh found this symbol relegated to the discount bin of a Christian bookstore, replaced by patriotic paraphernalia. Marsh believes American Christians have supplanted this cornerstone of the faith with […]
Imagine the pressure to write a story about a top 10 creative writing program. It better be good! Well, C-VILLE succumbed, so we'll just tell you this: The Atlantic Magazine ranked UVA's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) creative writing program among the best in the nation.
How much do we want to be watched? With the city putting out a request for proposals for video surveillance cameras on the Downtown Mall and working on red-light cameras at intersections, the question of how far Charlottesville is willing to go in the name of public safety grows larger. We’re watched everyday, at ATMs, […]
Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo was clearly upbeat just before a news conference July 27. He had reason to be. The night before, police had arrested two 15-year-old males in connection with an assault near the Grove Street area of the Roosevelt Brown Boulevard that had the markings of other assaults that have occurred Downtown. […]
Few in the criminal justice system who first encountered Frank E. Brown Jr. thought he was going to make it through the Charlottesville/Albemarle Drug Court Program.
New news: We’re always hot on its trail. But when we stop to cool off, we start to wonder what old news is still burning.
As outrage mellows to acceptance during the development review process, only the dedicated opponents continue to pipe up at public meetings. On July 24, the Albemarle County Planning Commission considered rezoning 87 acres just north of I-64 for a big-box shopping center. While in the past citizens for and against the project have shown up, […]
Surrounded by boutique shops and restaurants to the north, condos to the south, and the new Downtown ACAC just across the street to its west, Friendship Court anchors a rapidly changing neighborhood. Charles Martin is the executive director of Urban Vision, which provides residential services at low-income housing complexes. He knows Friendship Court sits on […]
When developer Wendell Wood of United Land Corporation addressed the county Planning Commission at their July 10 meeting, he said that the client that would lease the 180,000 square feet of office space and the 120-unit apartment building would be the government, presumably on behalf of the adjacent National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). C-VILLE did […]