By 7pm, the Social Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church had swelled with folks in sport coats and sharp dresses. They mingled shoulder to shoulder, some looking at the artwork that hung from each of the four walls, others trying to squeeze by each other, moving from one conversation to the next. The bright, […]
When you get right down to it, there are three types of honkers who drive past the weekly anti-war protest in front of the Federal Court House every Thursday. You’ve got your tootlers, the ones who smile and beep their horns in two or three short bursts to the folks standing on the corner of […]
In recent weeks, UVA undergrad Grant Woolard has stepped inadvertently into the national spotlight for his drawing “Ethiopian Food Fight.”
Lisa Womak leads a double life. During the week, her neighbors spot her picking up the mail, working in the garden or walking the dog; come Friday night, she’s nowhere to be found. In her place, gaggles of good-natured Cavalier fans pop up on her property. There are old ones, young ones, even furry ones, […]
Fifty years ago, college students had to return their beer bottles to the local brewery so that they could be cleaned, refilled with more suds, and distributed to the next thirsty customer. Similarly, it was also the norm to return one’s rented textbooks at the end of the term so the next crop of students […]
Correction appended Daniel Strickland had a friend that, like a lot of people nowadays, wanted to move to Charlottesville. So Strickland did what most anyone would do: He jumped on the Web to start researching neighborhoods and available houses. What he found, though, was a dearth of what he calls “good Charlottesville real estate websites.” […]
Everybody has somebody to blame for our local water problems. That was the lesson from the September 13 public meeting of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA), held to review the $142 million community water supply plan [PowerPoint presentation] to provide for the next 50 years. Among those blamed: developers for not paying their […]
For months now it’s seemed everyone has been biting their nails in anticipation of when the housing bubble is going to burst. Well, the needle may finally have touched the balloon: Toll Brothers—the nation’s largest builder of luxury homes, previously reported by C-VILLE to be scouting Albemarle for future development opportunities—recently announced plans to scale […]
For 25 years hippie artists David and Elizabeth Breeden have been sitting on 1,000 acres of prime property just five minutes south of town. But last spring the Breedens put much of Forest Lodge, as their property is known, on the market. Speculation as to who would grab the hefty parcel ran rampant—but lately, a […]
Not until after midnight did anyone bring up the scheduling issue. “Is this how we want to make major decisions about the future of our city and county, late at night after many hours and hours?”