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(ARCHIVES) Being Thomas Jeffer

Editor’s Note: This story on Rob Coles’ life as a Thomas Jefferson descendant and impersonator originally ran in...

Once a Marine

When Stephen Canty watched his little brother leave on his first deployment as a Marine in the fall of 2011, he...

My first gun

The decision to buy a gun came suddenly. I was gulping down coffee before work and reading about the latest shooting,...

Out there

I discovered that there was no department anywhere dealing with the fact that we’re being visited, and that there...

Living in America

In 2011, Sub Pop, the indie record label that first signed Nirvana and almost single-handedly sold grunge to the...

Brothers

The Tonsler Park Recreation Center is busy at 4:30pm on a Wednesday. The long, L-shaped main room bustles with games...

Across 30 years and an epidemic, Charlottesville’s gay...

In early 1986, Hospice of the Piedmont needed help with a patient who had less than a month to live. The...

What does George Huguely’s sentence say about the way we...

In Norway last Friday, Anders Breivik was sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing 77 people and wounding 242. Six...

The wonder years

“One big problem is change. [The older residents] don’t understand change is happening and why it’s happening, and...

Meet the man who’s quietly bringing ancient Tibet to...

Gyaltsen Sangpo Druknya was born in the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in a region called Amdo, a land of...