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Tuesday, June 26The good sip Though sometimes overlooked by wine and travel connoisseurs, Virginia’s wine regions get some love this month in Travel+Leisure magazine, which names Barboursville among five emerging […]
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Tuesday, June 19Green architects on Sundance The Sundance Channel’s new series, “The Green,” tonight featured Charlottesville architect William McDonough who, with his colleagues, is working with the U.S. Postal Service […]
Sons of Bill’s excellent adventure
James and Sam Wilson agree to wait as I prep my tape recorder for what they call “The Van Story.” The brothers
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Tuesday, June 12Elisa Kelly locked up After serving beer at her son Ryan’s 16th birthday party five years ago, Elisa Kelly began serving something completely different this week: her 27-month […]
What’s the big idea?
Born and raised in Charlottesville, Anne-Marie Slaughter graduated from St. Anne’s-Belfield in 1976 and left to go to Princeton where she eventually became the university’s dean of the Woodrow Wilson […]
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Tuesday, June 5UVA baseball loses in regional, again Make it four straight years the Cavaliers have been bounced out of the NCAA tournament regional before making it to Omaha. But, […]
Night visions
Shentai. The word comes off like a reprimand, a breathy admonition, an erotic, Orient-tinged term best used close to the ear—a two-syllable tantalization forming out of the ether and
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Tuesday, May 29Transit proposal gets props Let’s face it: Charlottesville has a rockin’ national rep. We might not be No. 1 any longer (enter sigh of relief here), but we […]
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Tuesday, May 22Grisham on “Dateline NBC” John Grisham, famous local author and recent UVA commencement speaker, appeared on “Dateline NBC” tonight to discuss his recent book, The Innocent Man. Grisham’s […]
You say it’s your birthday?
“Love, love, love… Love, love, love…” So went the rather simplistic beginning to The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” As a BBC TV camera closed in on John Lennon […]