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Tunnel vision

Documentary tells story of creation, re-creation

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Outside chances: The environment is getting a healthy respite right now thanks to less human activity around the...

Building bridges

The fandango in Veracruz felt familiar to Estela Diaz Knott. Under a tent, musicians strummed guitar-shaped...

Building happiness

If you’ve seen a parade of 8-foot-tall ants climbing the side of a building, a life-sized foam replica of Stonehenge,...

Vaughan’s passing

Rob Vaughan, founder of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, died March 6 at age 74, after a rapid progression of...

Removing the mask

By Jonathan Haynes A little backstory: Charlottesville began as a plantation community with slavery as its...

Confronting a shameful past

As big a role as history plays in Charlottesville’s identity, some events, like an 1898 lynching, were pretty much...