Ben Hitchcock

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Coping with confinement

  “I was a boy during the Cuban missile crisis, and we felt we were going to be blasted off the face of the Earth,”...

Busted budget

  The City of Charlottesville was almost all the way through the always-laborious yearly budget process when the...

Mourning in isolation

  For decades, Betty Pittman was a U.S. history teacher at Lane and Charlottesville high schools. “My mother taught...

A ‘Tiger King’ is born

Before he was a tiger king, Bhagavan Kevin “Doc” Antle lived in the rolling green hills of central Virginia, at the...

Get out of jail virus-free

  Chanell Jackson is home early. The local resident and mother of three had about seven weeks left on her six-month...

Zoomers Anonymous

  Normally, Charlottesville’s Alcoholics Anonymous members sit in chairs in a circle. Now, they appear as squares in...

Whiskey, guns, and SpongeBob

  “I’m going to kill a fifth during this lecture,” announced one student, holding a bottle of whiskey aloft as his...

Horrible history

  Charlottesville has an affordable housing crisis: that’s not exactly breaking news. Local activists have been...

How to take down a statue

  On March 7, Virginia’s legislature passed the Conference Substitute to House Bill No. 1537, which will allow...

‘A neighborhood thing’

  Down at the narrow end of East Market street, past the eclectic, slanting houses of the Woolen Mills neighborhood,...