Every great story starts somewhere. This spring, WriterHouse and C-VILLE Weekly challenged local writers to prove that sometimes one page is all you need. As part of WriterHouse’s WriteNow! campaign, the First Page contest invited authors to submit only the opening page of an original work, leaving bestselling novelist and UVA professor Bruce Holsinger to […]
Nearly a month after its June 23 opening, Shake Shack at The Shops at Stonefield still has lines stretching out the door—and, on some days, down the block. The burger chain, which got its start in 2004 as a humble hot dog cart in New York City’s Madison Square Park, has built a cult following […]
Writer, journalist, and public speaker Andrew Moore returns to town for a reading at New Dominion Bookshop, followed by a conversation with local writer and cultural landscape historian Nell Boeschenstein Yager. Moore’s new book, The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America’s Eastern Wilderness, about reintroducing large animals to the eastern United […]
The Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA is in the thick of its busiest time of the year: kitten season. And thanks to an influx of adorable furry little friends, the shelter is running low on supplies, especially kitten milk replacer and canned wet food (to help out, go to caspca.org/donate). C-VILLE recently spoke with Lauren Thomas, CASPCA’s events […]
Scott Stadium hosted more than 24,000 fans for the NCAA men’s lacrosse Championship Weekend May 23-25, a rare return of the event to a college campus after years at pro venues. Tufts won its third straight Division III championship Sunday, while Princeton and Notre Dame advanced to Monday’s Division I title game, with the Tigers […]
By 7:15am on May 16, the crowd at Ellie’s Country Club was already shoulder-to-shoulder, with commencement-day revelers packing the patio beneath a canopy of balloons. Lines outside bars on the Corner began forming as early as 5am ahead of Saturday’s Final Exercises for students graduating from the College Arts & Sciences, and the Batten and […]
Best-selling author Bruce Holsinger knows what it takes to produce rock-solid fiction. The writer, professor, and Guggenheim fellow penned Culpability, the 116th selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His novel The Gifted School earned a Book of the Month Club selection and won the Colorado Book Award, and The Displacements was named the inaugural title in […]
Scholar, maker, and cultural critic Lisa Woolfork has been making space and creating community in Charlottesville, centering her efforts on functional fiber arts. Woolfork hosts the award-winning podcast “Stitch Please,” a platform for conversations about sewing, quilting, fashion, labor, memory, and liberation featuring sewists, artists, designers, historians, and makers from across the African diaspora. The […]
The staff and volunteer physicians at the Charlottesville Free Clinic helped more than 3,000 patients in 2025—more than 1,600 of them new to the clinic—obtain medical and dental care. Roughly 40 percent of those patients earned less than the federal poverty line of $15,650 for individuals or $32,150 for a family of four. More than […]
The City of Charlottesville and the surrounding region’s robust arts community has lacked a centralized arts council since the Piedmont Council for the Arts shuttered in 2017. A new effort to establish an equitable, accessible, and focused arts organization is now in the works, facilitated by independent consultant Ruby Lopez Harper. The initiative invites artists, […]
Charlottesville’s Loaves & Fishes Food Pantry provides free groceries to an average of 12,000 people every month. “Our goal for each visiting household is to provide a week’s worth of food, based on household size, that accommodates dietary restrictions and cultural preferences,” says Jane Colony Mills, the nonprofit’s executive director. C-VILLE recently caught up with […]