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From the hall to the mall If you’ve already heard that Dean Maupin left his executive chef post at Keswick Hall to take the helm at another restaurant, you probably want to know where that might be, since his extraordinary food’s reputation precedes him. Well, that would be the cozy and venerable C&O Restaurant. We’re looking [...]

Green Scene: Steps to Sustainability

Teri Kent (far left) with members of the staff of Woodard Properties, where employees propelled themselves to a win in the Charlottesville Better Business Challenge by transitioning to a paperless office. Photo by John Robinson. Challenge reveals ways businesses can trim waste More than 100 Charlottesville businesses recently wrapped up the year-long Better Business Challenge, a [...]

Storm update: Thousands still powerless

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Governor Bob McDonnell urged Virginians in today’s press release to continue taking care of one another in the aftermath of Friday’s storms as thousands of families still wait for their power to return. He also laid out different recovery efforts throughout the Commonwealth. “The intense heat combined with lack of power continues to be a [...]

McDonnell reappoints Dragas to UVA Board of Visitors

Governor Bob McDonnell announced six new appointments to the UVA Board of Visitors and ended the suspense surrounding the fate of Rector Helen Dragas, who will remain on the Board for another term.

C-VILLE Arts Beat: Top Picks for June 28-July 2

Friday 6/29 Single man Pop-rock singer Eric Hutchinson’s Mraz-like smooth voice brought him early success and a lot of swooning fans. He self-released his first album, That Could’ve Gone Better, and hit it big via iTunes, making the single “Rock and Roll” a fan favorite. And then there are those lemmings who discovered him on [...]

The Pols: Politics' top players

The Pols The political game always heats up in a presidential election year, but it’s fixin’ to boil over this time around. Virginia is being touted as an important battleground state in the Obama/Romney duel, but we’ve also got a crucial U.S. Senate race underway. The Commonwealth’s seats of political power may be in Richmond, [...]

The Landlords: Development's top players

The Landlords Charlottesville sits on the tippy top of the South in fertile rolling country in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that’s been making landowners wealthy for 400 years. Through the ’80s, the real estate game consisted primarily of the buying and selling of horse farms and trying to sell property to UVA for twice its [...]

The Entrepreneurs: Business' top players

The Entrepreneurs Cities with universities have withstood the recession better than other communities because they rely on a global information economy that’s trending upward. Insulated by private foundation and Federal grant money, buoyed by venture capital, towns like ours are driving whatever growth is left in the national economy. Charlottesville’s startup scene might not rival [...]

The Arts: Creativity’s top players

Arts | C-VILLE Weekly writers

The Arts The Charlottesville arts community, with support from the Charlottesville and Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau, recently took part in Arts & Economic Prosperity IV, the largest-ever national study of “the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences.” The study, which included participation from 112 arts organizations and thousands of [...]

The Youth Movement: Under 45's top players

The Youth Movement We’re not totally unaware that we’ve just created a long series of lists that trumpet the power of America’s least sympathetic set of operators: rich, white men. But hey, let’s be honest about how our preppy town with a hippie heart works. The only thing more insulting than portraying the world as [...]

Small Bites: This week’s restaurant news

What grows together, goes together Local food and wine go together like a horse and carriage, or on Saturday, June 30 at Keswick Vineyards, like a horse and buggy. At 11am and again at 1pm, Keswick winemaker Stephen Barnard and Horse & Buggy Produce founder Brett Wilson will lead an in-depth discussion on the merits of eating [...]

Green Scene: The Better Business Challenge and busy bees

Last Thursday, local radio personality Coy Barefoot addressed the employees, friends, and family of 107 Charlottesville businesses about the importance of being environmentally conscious: “Being green actually makes good business sense and improves the bottom line.

Sullivan, Dragas call for unity following reinstatement

After more than two weeks of protests, speculation, and angst in the UVA community, the University's Board of Visitors unanimously voted Tuesday afternoon to reinstate Teresa Sullivan as president.

Live Review: Explosions in the Sky

Arts | C-VILLE Weekly writers

I’m a kid now, but when I saw Explosions in the Sky three years ago, I was truly a kid. Nineteen, I guess, at Merriweather Post Pavilion, stretched out on the wet grass of the lawn section and soaking up their opening set before Flaming Lips came on. Seeing them again at the Jefferson felt [...]

The Power Issue 2012: Who's sitting in Charlottesville's seats of power?

JUMP TO: The U The Pols The Landlords The Investors The Entrepreneurs The Arts The Youth Movement Late last year, Forbes ranked Charlottesville the 13th richest metropolitan area in the country. Earlier this month, Richard Florida, a senior editor at The Atlantic, published his list of the “brainiest” cities in the U.S. Using data collected [...]

The U: UVA's top power players

The U Charlottesville is a company town and UVA is the company. The relatively small size of the city, its longstanding relationship with the University, and the fact that UVA runs its biggest hospital, real estate business, and media team, in addition to accounting for 12,500 jobs and a budget footprint of $2.6 billion, means [...]

Faculty Senate: “We will prevail”

UVA’s Faculty Senate is holding its ground in opposition to Sullivan’s removal. Yesterday, Cohen sent an e-mail to UVA faculty members urging them to sign up for task forces and join the fight for Sullivan’s reinstatement. Cohen rallied his co-workers to resist the BOV’s coup d’état, saying, “With your help, we will prevail.” On Thursday [...]

Sullivan calls for civility and expresses sympathy for Zeithaml

Ousted UVA president Teresa Sullivan issued a statement earlier today calling for civility in the debate over her resignation. Here’s the full text of her message.

Dragas details her reasons for forcing Sullivan’s resignation

UVA Rector Helen Dragas, head of the University’s embattled Board of Visitors, has issued a statement outlining the reasons she and others on the Board forced the resignation of Teresa Sullivan. The long letter was released to media by University spokeswoman Carol Wood Thursday evening. Here it is in full: In my statement to [...]

Comprehensive coverage of Sullivan's controversial resignation and reinstatement

Students and reporters surround Teresa Sullivan after her reinstatement as supporters joined her in a rendition of the Good Old Song. Photo by Graelyn Brashear. Click through these links to read our full coverage of the events surrounding President Teresa Sullivan’s resignation. BREAKING NEWS Full statement from Sullivan following her reappointment Video: Sullivan joins [...]

C-VILLE Arts Beat: Top Picks for Jun 26-July 2

Friday 6/22 Down to earth While ears are still ringing from the recent Mogwai show, Explosions In The Sky, the heir apparent to the throne of moody, instrumental songscaping, load in after a three-year hiatus. Formed in Texas in 1999, the quartet gained mainstream exposure when its dramatic compositions were used in Friday Night Lights. [...]

Small Bites: This week's restaurant news

Citizen beef Andy McClure’s Citizen Burger Bar opened last Friday just in time for Father’s Day. But while the restaurant’s central theme of burgers, beer, and ballgames is a manly one, the sleek feel of the place (exposed brick, tweed, and leather banquettes, and a cocktail area in the bay window along the Mall) and [...]

UVA appoints interim president after day of protest on Grounds

After a day of angry demands and hopeful rallies, UVA’s Board of Visitors emerged from nearly 12 hours of discussion to offer up a decision, if not an explanation.

C-VILLE Arts Beat: Top Picks for Jun 12-18

Saturday 6/16 Stringin’ ’em along This town enjoys a bounty of talented musicians and we burst with pride when one of our own rises to national success. Next on that list is guitarist Andy Keathley, who left us for Berklee College of Music in Boston, ended up in Los Angeles and returns on tour with [...]

Arts Extra: Farm tour goes beyond the gates

Arts | C-VILLE Weekly writers

Central Virginia’s got a lot of history, relatively speaking. As the oldest region in a fairly new country, its rural affluence has protected it, more or less, from the encroachment of modernization that’s changed so many historic areas into really lame amusement parks. Explore local land(marks) June 16 on the Beyond the Gates historic [...]

Small Bites: This week's restaurant news