As July in Charlottesville approaches, its heavy heat sends hordes of sweaty students and townies alike in search of quick, delicious relief.
U.Va.'s Culbreth Theatre will be far from empty this summer. Thanks to the Heritage Repertory Theatre, the Charlottesville community as well as University students will have the opportunity to see Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical, Carousel.
Bringing out the Kid at Heart "Pop Goes the Page," an exhibit in Alderman Library's Special Collections department, is currently open and will run through August 18 in the library's McGregor Room.
Of the few surviving rock legends of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam still has a surprisingly loyal following among its fans.
As Charles Foster Kane speeds down the snowy slope of Xanadu on the back of his trusty childhood sled Rosebud, gunfire tears up the mountainside.
Students need not trek to Campbell Hall or the Bayly Museum to see works of art on campus. Old Cabell Hall is now graced with the work of Maine artist and former University visiting professor of art Lincoln Perry in a multiple panel mural entitled "The Student's Progress." The mural depicts a student experiencing different phases of college life, who falls into some bad places but ultimately succeeds and graduates.
Now on its ninth season, MTV's Tuesday night soap, The Real World, continues to attract large audiences craving a dose of so-called reality.
Rock of the ages The Genesis Society, started in September of 1998, has placed a stone plaque in a grassy spot next to Garrett Hall.
According to University lore, it all started November 12, 1840 when Prof. John Davis was fatally shot by a rioting student in front of his Pavilion X home.
Dear Dockter Duval, Here's the deal - I've been dating this girl for about three years and we're both finally graduating.
Dear Dockter Duval, Here's the deal - I've been dating this girl for about three years and we're both finally graduating.
Although its sign may be smaller in comparison to the billboards of other Corner merchants, the orange and blue letters of Mincer's store are an unmistakable signal to Wahoos that they've come home. Mincer's, the T-shirt and merchandise shop that sells University fashion mainstays such as "Friends Don't Let Friends Go to Tech," has transcended time.
Let the races begin The odds are good that alcohol safety issues will come to the forefront tomorrow at Foxfield Races, an event notorious for breeding booze consumption.
When Charlottesville made plans to build an all-white high school in 1940, Charlottesville resident Ed Jackson's home was demolished and he and his family were displaced for the first time. Jackson, 77, was born on Pearl Street, the street across from Preston Avenue's Bodo's Bagel shop, where the County Office building now stands.
Despite being situated in the no-man's land between the Corner and the Downtown Mall, Starr Hill Restaurant and Brewery, located at 709 West Main St., has quickly made a name for itself.
Everybody has one. That one person who makes your heart beat a little faster, your day a little better.
Just when you think the Corner has nothing more to offer, when you've been there and done that at every watering hole, coffee shop and eatery, University Avenue's easy-access cultural hub jumps up and surprises you. There's food, sure.
Two decades of dance In 1980, the amphitheater was in a state of complete disrepair. It had been 30 years since anyone used it.
(This is the sixth and last in a weekly series of articles on road trips within reasonable reach of the University.) I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" Charlottesville is much more than Emmet Street, more than the Lawn, more than Harris Teeter and more than the Mad Bowl.
A new Out Look This week marks yet another milestone for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community at the University.
