Few are the reasons we would interrupt an architect on charette, that deadline-crazed period just before a design is due, but when we heard that Judith Kinnard was getting ready to meet Brad Pitt, well, we had to give the UVA architecture prof a call. O.K., she’s not exactly getting ready to meet Mr. World […]
Few are the reasons we would interrupt an architect on charette, that deadline-crazed period just before a design is due, but when we heard that Judith Kinnard was getting ready to meet Brad Pitt, well, we had to give the UVA architecture prof a call. O.K., she’s not exactly getting ready to meet Mr. World […]
In the spring, UVA football head coach Al Groh publicly acknowledged that the team had to do some “significant rebuilding.” And in sports, “rebuilding” is almost always used to lower fan expectations for the coming season. Indeed, preseason guides by Sporting News and Lindy’s pick UVA to finish in the lower portion of the ACC, […]
As UVA’s School of Nursing plans to expand, its leadership is receiving some high accolades. Nursing School Dean Jeanette Lancaster was recently named a finalist for the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” a survey sponsored by Modern Healthcare Magazine. Final results of the survey won’t be announced until August, but Lancaster is already flexing […]
Finally. New Charlottesville School Superintendent Rosa Atkins got to start her job on July 3, more than 14 months after the school board accepted the resignation of former superintendent Scottie Griffin. Atkins recently finished her duties as assistant superintendent in Caroline County. “It feels good to start full force in Charlottesville,” she says. In this edited interview, Atkins explains why she\’s so fired up about learning.
Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode is trying to make political hay with the debate over illegal immigration, but so far his litany of bills isn’t going anywhere. In the current congressional term, Goode has co-sponsored 11 bills and three resolutions that target illegal immigrants. All the bills, however, are stuck in committee and did not […]
At their last meeting, the Albemarle County School Board closed a loophole in their beverage policy that had allowed student groups and athletic boosters to sell snack bars and soft drinks. A group of students from Western Albemarle High School, concerned about nutrition issues, precipitated the change by informing School Board member Brian Wheeler of […]
A week of wet weather eased Charlottesville’s water woes—at least for the moment—and replenished receding reservoirs. Thomas Frederick, director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, said, “We’re full. The reservoirs are running at capacity,” including the Ragged Mountain and Sugar Hollow reservoirs, which were seven inches below normal last month. The dry spell prompted […]
In 1999, talking about the headquarters he designed for Gap, Inc., in San, Bruno, Californiaâwhich, among other innovative touches, featured huge atriums that brought natural light deep into the buildingâBill McDonough asked this question: “When it’s a nice day, why feel as if you’ve missed it?”
Dear Irving: Ace sorely wanted to get the word out about the sweet free parking spots around the Downtown Mall, even though his editors vowed to defenestrate him if he did.
On Monday, July 3, Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall turned 30. The City is celebrating with speeches, bands and a slide-show retrospective to commemorate the Mall’s commercial success. Here at C-VILLE, where several former Mall deadbeats have joined the ranks of the productively employed and regularly showered, we note the Mall’s birthday with a bittersweet air as our favorite stretch of brick sets aside childis