Crazy love: Seven Big Blue Door storytellers pour their hearts out
According to family lore, when my great-grandmother was 16, she walked right up to my very handsome great-grandfather and said to him, “Catch me, I’m a butterfly.” It was a […]
2013 in numbers: A look back at how the year added up
There are 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, and 525,600 minutes in a year. But there was a lot more to 2013 than just the sands in the […]
Page by page: City artist Lara Call Gastinger leaves a local stamp on a botanical opus
Ever since she was a child, Lara Call Gastinger has found ways to combine science and art. “My parents would take us to these National Wildlife Federation Summits where I […]
Vanishing act: Conservationists make the case for saving Albemarle County’s rare and threatened habitats
It’s a warm, early fall day, and Lonnie Murray and I are preparing for a scramble. We’re in a remote hollow in far southwest Albemarle County at the invitation of […]
(ARCHIVES) Being Thomas Jefferson: Reenactors impersonate the past, speak to the present
Editor’s Note: This story on Rob Coles’ life as a Thomas Jefferson descendant and impersonator originally ran in C-VILLE Weekly on June 19, 2012. According to his obituary in The […]
Once a Marine: How a Charlottesville veteran is telling the story of a soldier’s transition to civilian life
When Stephen Canty watched his little brother leave on his first deployment as a Marine in the fall of 2011, he recognized the grin on Joe’s face as the same […]
ARTS Pick: Pancake Party with the Star Children
The default option for any working band looking to raise some quick funds is usually Kickstarter, but We Are Star Children, as always, are thinking outside the box. To help […]
Stargazers: Charlottesville scientists are helping build the most powerful telescope in history
The President of Chile is running about an hour late. Not surprising, perhaps, considering the dedication ceremony he’s attending is being held 25 miles from the small tourist town of […]
Film Review: A Good Day to Die Hard
When did the demon dogs of hell stop merely influencing movie stars and studios and begin pulling the strings? To reiterate the inescapable point, A Good Day to Die Hard is a piece of shit.
Blues Explosion Returns to the Jefferson
Using Exile-era Stones as their sacred text, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion crank the knobs up to 11.