Facetime


FACETIME- Chinn up: Keeping the SNL train running Published on Jun 7th, 2007 0 comments Mike Chinn PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO Mike Chinn says his job is to hire and keep the brightest people. As someone who took the helm of a company with $70 million in revenues at the age of 29, he falls...
FACETIME- Spud spoof: Eric Hurt back with donut sequel Published on Jun 7th, 2007 0 comments
FACETIME- Three-legged bridge: Acoustic Groove Trio brings folks together Published on May 31st, 2007 0 comments Acoustic Groove TrioPHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO Almost everyone who lived through days of '90s alt-rock looks back fondly at the MTV "Unplugged" TV series. With everyone from Jay-Z and Lauryn Hill to...
FACETIME- Coles' soul: Singing for a cause Published on May 31st, 2007 0 comments Kenneth ColesPHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO When a friend and client of Kenneth Coles revealed that diabetes had forced doctors to amputate her arm, Coles says, he was heartbroken. "She looked so desperate...
FACETIME- Sikh and find: Huja wants City Council seat Published on May 24th, 2007 0 comments Satyendra Huja with a PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO It should come as no surprise that the architect of Charlottesville's much-heralded aesthetic would himself live in a glass house. Satyendra Huja's...
FACETIME- Let's dance: Steffanina's a hip-hop prince Published on May 17th, 2007 0 comments Matt Steffanina. PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO When Matt Steffanina leads a hip-hop class, laughter is not just tolerated– it's encouraged. While Steffanina appears to have rubber bones that allow...
FACETIME- Ground ball: Darrell Gardner keeps the grass green Published on May 10th, 2007 0 comments Darrell Gardner PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO For almost as long as there's been youth baseball in Charlottesville, Darrell Gardner has been there to lend a hand. For nearly 50 years, those hands...
FACETIME- Pape's desire: Building goodness... and <i>Streetcar </i> Published on May 3rd, 2007 0 comments Howard Pape PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO Howard Pape thinks about redemption all the time– but he won't say why. Whatever compels him, a lot of people have benefited from his urges. When Hurricane...
FACETIME- Jethro lull: Local gal all over the place Published on Apr 26th, 2007 0 comments Former Old School Freight Train member Ann Marie Calhoun has been in high demand all over town since she left the band in 2004, but late last year her career gathered a momentum that even she couldn'...
FACETIME- Computerized Coffey: How Ted breaks sound barriers Published on Apr 19th, 2007 0 comments Whale songs, creaking wood, lapping water, electronic static– those were the unexpected noises Piedmont Virginia Community College students heard last November as they were walking to class...
FACETIME- Hot 'Trees': Band invites fans to the combustion Published on Apr 12th, 2007 0 comments They've been incubating– all living in the same house, writing, rehearsing, with some sporadic shows. Now, the band Trees on Fire hopes to set Charlottesville on fire with a new weekly gig and...
FACETIME- Public works: Solla's art-full community dreams Published on Apr 5th, 2007 1 comments How fun is this? Last year Piedmont Virginia Community College art chair Beryl Solla invited Broadus Wood Elementary School students to draw wild animals. Solla's PVCC class then replicated the...
FACETIME- Speaking in tongues: <i>Ecco</i> Christina Ball! Published on Mar 29th, 2007 0 comments Forget everything you think you know about learning a foreign language– trudging through memorizing declensions and conjugating verbs ad nauseum– Ecco Italy founder Christina Ball is out...
FACETIME- Talking Ed: Gillespie aims to save Virginia GOP Published on Mar 22nd, 2007 0 comments Ed Gillespie has made a career of pulling off the unexpected. In 1994, he co-authored the "Contract with America" that reclaimed Congress for the Republicans after 40 years. In 2000, he was the...
FACETIME- Magical mirrors: Llewellyn's lens captures, recreates history Published on Mar 15th, 2007 1 comments Photographer Robert Llewellyn didn't intend to be an antiques collector. He has 600,000 slides and people would call, knowing he had photos of Boston or Washington. "One day it changed,"...
FACETIME- Play boys: Watterson explores presidents' games Published on Mar 15th, 2007 1 comments When historians try to capture the essence of the men who occupy the Oval Office, they shouldn't overlook their athletic ability, says John S. Watterson. The Charlottesville-based sports historian...
FACETIME- Cheryl's whirl: Multi-tasking mom approaches the bench Published on Mar 8th, 2007 0 comments The celebration phase is over. Congratulatory flowers still sit on her desk, but Cheryl Higgins really doesn't have time to stop and smell the roses. "I've hit that nervousness mode," says she, amid...
FACETIME- Audio to visual: How Fischer collaged her life Published on Mar 1st, 2007 2 comments Shelby Fischer froths milk for a cup of chai in her farmhouse kitchen before heading upstairs to her studio trailed by her three large dogs. As the mutts make themselves comfortable amid the...
FACETIME- Playing with Plato: McCarty guides little philosophers Published on Feb 15th, 2007 0 comments Plato, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant. They're great thinkers, and their complex works fill college course syllabi. But Marietta McCarty says there's no need to wait for adulthood to begin considering the...
FACETIME- Life's a beach: Local takes a walk on the wet side Published on Feb 8th, 2007 0 comments There's a first time for every physical feat. Captain Matthew Webb was first to swim the English Channel in 1875. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest...
FACETIME- Drawing blood: Impagliazzo puts a fine point on it Published on Jan 25th, 2007 0 comments Some girls are obsessed with Barbie, some love horses. The girlhood interests of Anita Impagliazzo, however, were decidedly more gruesome. "I was obsessed with the 'I am Joe's or Jane's Body Part'...
FACETIME- Cheer up: How Clayton tackles women's depression Published on Jan 4th, 2007 0 comments For most doctors, spells of forgetfulness are a hindrance at work. For psychiatrist Anita Clayton, who recently turned the big 5-0, those spells actually help her relate to the women she treats. "I...
FACETIME- Card tricks: Wimberger's job pushes the envelope Published on Dec 14th, 2006 2 comments Louisa Wimberger's Belmont home is stuffed to the studs with scraps of paper that other folks might banish to the rubbish bin. But then, other folks probably have far more mundane jobs. Two years ago...
FACETIME- No lie: Honenberger's career takes off Published on Dec 7th, 2006 1 comments Sarah Honenberger appears to be on the way up as a writer, despite having just started in 2001 after leaving her job in family law. She still administers a couple of trusts and dabbles in the...
FACETIME- Cataloguing Caroline: Preston delves writers' worlds Published on Nov 30th, 2006 0 comments The phone rings while Caroline Preston is talking to a visitor, and it's another local author, Donna Lucey, who, like Preston, is one-half of a writerly couple. Is this Charlottesville's secret...
FACETIME- Hot flash: Pinkerton's midlife medical mission Published on Nov 16th, 2006 0 comments JoAnn Pinkerton knows more about menopause than most other 52-year-old women. She's the director of the Midlife Health Center at UVA, the clinic she started in 1995 in an effort to bring the...
FACETIME- Yahya's brotherhood: Refugee turns attention to Darfur Published on Nov 9th, 2006 0 comments Mohamed Yahya has an unusual view of the explosive political entanglements currently facing the United States: "There is no genocide in Iraq, there is no genocide in North Korea, there is no genocide...
FACETIME- Soul men: Hamiltons get their act together Published on Nov 2nd, 2006 0 comments One of the critics in the Hook's music issue in April declared Ezra Hamilton "great" and "stupid"– great for making some of the most credible soul-influenced music around; stupid for never...
FACETIME- Vampire volume: McClelland drinks in success Published on Oct 26th, 2006 0 comments Forget bats. Forget looming spooky castles. Forget slicked-back black hair and a cape and any other image that comes to mind when you hear the word "vampire." According to Bruce McClelland, author of...
FACETIME- Dynastic duo: Rosensky-Decker at 12 Published on Oct 19th, 2006 0 comments It's hard to talk about music in Charlottesville without a genuflection in the direction of Miller's. The downtown bar that was once home to Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds is now known as a buzzing...