This Week, 7/24
In almost six years of living in Charlottesville, I’ve had two noteworthy encounters with the police. The first time was several years ago, when I left my wallet on the […]
This week, 7/17
It’s another (delicious) quirk of living in Charlottesville that some of the best food in town happens to be served out of gas stations. This week, we share some of […]
This week, 7/10
“Disgusted with the heat and dust of the babylonish brick-kiln of New York, I came back to the country to feel the grass.” So wrote Herman Melville to his friend […]
This Week, 6/26
The real power struggle in Charlottesville, as a reporter for The New York Times astutely observed in a story about Mayor Nikuyah Walker last year, is not between left and […]
This week, 6/19
We’re a city that can’t seem to escape our statues, and at Monday’s City Council meeting they were on the agenda again—this time, the West Main monument to Lewis and […]
This Week, 6/12
As city and county residents decide who should represent them next year, we sat down with someone who’s been there and back—former mayor Maurice Cox. In his time on council, […]
Mr. T: A son’s tribute to his father, a teacher who struck the right note
By Price Thomas Ask around Charlottesville and everyone (I mean it, everyone) knows Greg Thomas some way, somehow. They’ve had him as a teacher, their mom had him as a […]
This Week, 6/4
With over 900 farms in Albemarle County alone, several well-attended farmers’ markets per week, and more than a handful of CSAs, Charlottesville has a thriving local food scene. But one […]
The virtues of incivility: Looking closer at the City Council candidates
Despite the refrain from all quarters that the defining issue of this year’s City Council election is housing, this election is a referendum on the status quo. In what feels […]
This Week, 5/29
If you know Charlottesville resident Jamelle Bouie, you probably know him for his writing—first for The Daily Beast and Slate, now as an opinion columnist for The New York Times—or […]