stage What is it about Charlottesville and art? Whence springs the rich, organic, artistic funkiness that pervades this place and its people? After a night of Shentai, I have decided that perhaps the nine Muses, in a wild, ululating, naked race to strew creativity across the earth, lingered here longer than other places. It’s in […]
stage What is it about Charlottesville and art? Whence springs the rich, organic, artistic funkiness that pervades this place and its people? After a night of Shentai, I have decided that perhaps the nine Muses, in a wild, ululating, naked race to strew creativity across the earth, lingered here longer than other places. It’s in […]
art A solitary figure lies splayed out in a grassy field; an anonymous hand pickpockets a young girl as she helps a man collect his fallen groceries; a lonesome creek winds its way past the trunks of two dead trees bathed in moonlight. Sounds disjointed, right? These three scenes come from prints by Betty MacDonald, […]
music The Battles show on the night of June 13 saw both familiar local characters as well as fresh faces from nearby metropolises like Richmond and Lynchburg. The span of ages was also wide, ranging from the eager high schoolers who perched front-and-center to the drunken 40-something with a tweed jacket and unnecessary sunglasses atop […]
Old habits die easy. In past years, our C-VILLE 20 annual issue was all about local people who had already stepped into the limelight. Our task was to celebrate the celebrated. This year we wanted a new challenge:
The Meadowcreek Parkway moved one step closer to reality at the June 12 city Planning Commission meeting but not without resistance. The Commission approved the McIntire Road-Route 250 Bypass Interchange as consistent with the city’s Comprehensive Plan. But things quickly got hazy. A steering committee for the Meadowcreek Parkway interchange liked this design. The Planning […]
Funny how much difference a million dollars can make. It only took five minutes for the 124-unit Avinity project to garner the stamp of approval from the Albemarle Board of Supervisors at their June 13 meeting—thanks to a substantial increase in the amount of money developers agreed to pay the county for each unit built. […]
Every day an average of 80 kids crowd into the Boys & Girls Club off Cherry Avenue for one program or another
“People ask me where I live and I tell them Friendship Court, and they say, ‘I can’t believe you live there.’ It makes me feel bad,” says Justina, a woman who has lived in the low-income housing complex on the 400 block of Garrett Street for more than 15 years. Charles Martin, executive director of […]
A Charlottesville man faces the death penalty in Buckingham County for charges stemming from the March 9 shooting of Clarence Maurice Austin, whose body was dumped along a rural road off Route 20. Two other men face life in prison for abduction, robbery and murder charges. Theodore Calvin Timberlake of Charlottesville, Claude Lorenzo Booker of […]
A Greene County grand jury indicted game warden Robert Orrin Ham, III on charges of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of 16-year-old Allen Cochran. On January 24, Cochran was suspected of kidnapping his 15-year-old girlfriend. Ham was assisting police in a hunt for the teen when he pulled over Cochran’s vehicle, with his girlfriend inside, […]