VQR wins big, per usual!
The Virginia Quarterly Review went one-for-three last night at the National Magazine Awards, where National Geographic and Vanity Fair knocked multiple categories out of the park.
Hartz takes job at Oregon
According to a press release from the University of Oregon, former UVA Art Museum director Jill Hartz, whose name was quietly removed from the museum’s staff website during the winter, has accepted a position as executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon.
UPDATE: UVA Art Museum was o.k. to “edit” fake poop, says artist
As the saying goes, “Every dog has his day.” Well, the dog formerly at the center of Irwin Berman’s exhibit at the University of Virginia Art Museum has left the school with a steaming, heaping pile of orange and blue turds on its paws.
Edwards and school board on MCP
Edwards puts the Meadowcreek Parkway in an economic justice perspective. And if you think tonight’s school board meeting will halt the the MCP, prepare for disappointment.
GraceWorks wins $10K from high school philanthropists
A nice chunk of change was given Tuesday night to GraceWorks, a small local nonprofit that runs an afterschool program for needy kids. GraceWorks earned the blessing of a committee of 10 high school students…
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If you’re looking at The Spiral for the first time, welcome. This is the first day of what’s surely to be a long and glorious run of C-VILLE blogs. And man, we’d really love to hear what you think … but not quite yet.
It’s me (babe?) that you’re looking for
C-VILLE’s two arts guys, Brendan Fitzgerald and John Ruscher, took some heat from a letter to the editor last week about the A-Z Music cover story. But neither Brendan nor John wrote the entry. I did.
College town basics
Hey, everybody — Charlottesville has coffeeshops! Lots of coffeeshops. This serves as news peg for a fairly frothy piece in today’s Washington Post…
Updated: Hope homeless shelter to close
The Hope Community Center’s role as an evening shelter is coming to an imminent end, its founder revealed today.