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This Week, 5/8

In five years of living in Charlottesville, I had taken the bus exactly once—as an outing for my then-3-year-old, who...

This week, 5/1

News that no one wants you to know about notoriously drops on Friday afternoons, when reporters and readers are...

School’s out

On a brisk but sunny spring morning, more than a dozen pre-kindergarteners file out of the imposing red brick...

This week: 4/24

Last Thursday, county schools Superintendent Matt Haas read a letter of apology to the community from the Albemarle...

This week, 4/17

There’s no shortage of alarming climate news, but I was especially chagrined to discover, in the course of our...

This Week, 4/9

I’m not much of a basketball fan—okay, I’m not a basketball fan at all—but I love a comeback story, and the UVA men’s...

This Week: 4/3

It’s a very Charlottesville story: Megan Read first saw Michael Fitts’ work hanging in the Mudhouse when she was 16,...

This Week, 3/27

Last Wednesday evening, as former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu was telling a sold-out book festival crowd that...

No room to grow

Sylvan and Sheria Kassondwa’s 860-square foot, three-bedroom apartment would be fine, they say, if they had one or...

This week, 3/20

Last week, we wrote about Detroit-based letterpress artist Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. If you’ve been to the Mudhouse...