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PHOTOPHILE- Satin cushions: Undies Valentine show not undercover Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments Many men may find buying their loved ones the perfect Valentines gift an exasperating chore. The innovative shop owners of a new boutique called Derriere de Soie just off the Downtown Mall set out to...
Satin cushions: Undies Valentine show not undercover Published on Feb 16th, 2006 0 comments Many men may find buying their loved ones the perfect Valentines gift an exasperating chore. The innovative shop owners of a new boutique called Derriere de Soie just off the Downtown Mall set out to...
PHOTOPHILE- Barbed comments: Ehrenreich speaks truth to power Published on Feb 9th, 2006 0 comments She may not have been preaching to the choir. But on Thursday, February 2, author Barbara Ehrenreich, America's undercover expert on the difficulties of living on a minimum wage, spoke to a large...
Going mobile: Jugglers offer novel welcome" Published on Jan 26th, 2006 0 comments "It still has the new bookmobile smell," gushes board chair Melissa Dickens as representatives of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library prepare to cut the ribbon on a new bookmobile. In a...
Eye eye, mates! A selection from our picture pages Published on Dec 22nd, 2005 0 comments Author Avery Chenoweth with boutique boss Cynthia Schroeder Gratuitous nighttime Rotunda photo Descendents of James Madison picnic at Montpelier in June. Puddles, a basenji mix, catches some rays...
Read, white, black: Hooked up on Rugby Road Published on Dec 15th, 2005 0 comments On a chilly Thursday night, December 8, the young and old, sophisticated and hip descended upon the UVA Art Museum for The Hook holiday party. The invitations requested "black, white, or red"...
Perryville: Bunnies, fairies, artists at Les Yeux Published on Dec 8th, 2005 0 comments All eyes were on Les Yeux du Monde December 2 as the art gallery celebrated the publication of Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville, a coffee table book published by The University of Virginia Press. The...
Watt's passage: Attitude was everything Published on Nov 24th, 2005 0 comments The first running of the Kelly Watt Open debuted Saturday, November 19, with temperatures in the upper 30s, no clouds, and dozens of recent graduates of Albemarle and other high schools returning...
Pop start: Why <I>iris</I> eyes are smiling Published on Nov 17th, 2005 0 comments iris magazine (yep, they do that lower-case thing) shows no signs of hiding out in the UVA Women's Center, which has been sponsoring it for many of its 25 years. In fact, iris is beaming into the...
Sugar shock: No traffic for Lawn tricksters Published on Nov 3rd, 2005 0 comments There wasn't a Mars Bar left on the Lawn at UVA Tuesday night, not after that afternoon's annual Halloween candy raid. Hundreds– perhaps thousands– of sweet-tooth princesses, pirates, and...
A time to cut: Grishamplan gets salon aid Published on Oct 27th, 2005 0 comments Though in the past John Grisham's public appearances have been mostly limited to book signings and festivals, raising funds for victims of Hurricane Katrina has the über-author showing up in...
PHOTOPHILE- Roll bounce: Cardinals celebrate 25 years Published on Oct 20th, 2005 0 comments The Charlottesville Cardinals Wheelchair Basketball Team celebrated their 25th anniversary Tuesday, October 11 by recreating a historic game. In 1980, the Cardinals played their first game against...
Good times: When architects go wild Published on Oct 6th, 2005 0 comments PHOTOS BY GEORGE KAMIDE Bowties and awards vied for preeminence in the main dining room at Farmington Country Club Saturday night, October 1, at the annual awards banquet of the local chapter of the...
Mead dinner: 'Boots' was made for talkin' Published on Sep 29th, 2005 0 comments Through his innovative juxtaposing of dorms and faculty residences on the Lawn, UVA founder Thomas Jefferson guaranteed that students and teachers would mix. The man heralded as one of the great...
Stylish 'Address': Beta Bridge goes Gettysburg Published on Sep 22nd, 2005 0 comments There's plenty of controversy about recent sprayings on Beta Bridge. But there's no ambiguity surrounding the black and white message that went up on Wednesday, September 14. Hundreds of UVA students...
All Allard: Women line the walls for Bill Published on Sep 8th, 2005 0 comments National Geographic photographer William Albert Allard knows how to draw a crowd. While the local media were largely mum on his latest exhibition, art lovers, fellow photographers, and even a noted...
Blue moon bash: Winery hosts happenin' hoedown Published on Sep 2nd, 2005 0 comments Drizzling rains didn't dampen the spirit of the Blue Moon Festival at First Colony Winery on Saturday, August 27. The event was the second festival the winery hosted this summer. Although Saturday's...
Champion ship: Third store's the charm Published on Aug 25th, 2005 0 comments Former NFL star Chris Harrison wasn't a business student when he attended the University of Virginia, but he could probably teach budding entrepreneurs a thing or two. He and partner Torrance Hampton...
Whistle-stopping: Citizens meet Kaine Published on Aug 18th, 2005 0 comments If the last week is any indication, the experts seem to think the road to the Governor's Mansion runs through downtown Charlottesville. No more than 24 hours after Republican hopeful Jerry Kilgore...
Divine secrets of the y'all-y'all sisterhood Published on Aug 11th, 2005 0 comments On the night of July 30, the 3,500 people who filed into the new Charlottesville Pavilion expecting to see a country music concert ended up getting much more. Instead of simply singing her songs and...
Chancy: Fans hope to ice visit with Hilary Published on Jul 28th, 2005 0 comments The swish of skates and the swirl of tiny skating skirts in the rink echoed the excited energy in the lobby of the Charlottesville Ice Park Saturday, July 23. About 20 happy little girls and their...
Dog days: Pups beat heat with commerce Published on Jul 21st, 2005 0 comments While the recent 90+ degree days have everyone talking about the dog days of summer, for some local businesses, every day is a dog day. For example, two dogs rule 2 French Hens, a downtown antique...
Fireworks, fireworks: July 5 microburst and all that Published on Jul 14th, 2005 0 comments The fireworks moved this year: from my vantage point, they were positioned behind Dominion Virginia Power's transmission line. I didn't mind. But on July 5, Mother Nature didn't wait until after dark...
Open sky: Pavilion workers scramble Published on Jul 7th, 2005 0 comments Never mind the 90-degree weather– construction workers at the Charlottesville Pavilion are more concerned about deadlines than dehydration. Last month, Pavilion general manager Kirby Hutto...
Bank shots: New local bank celebrates Published on Jun 30th, 2005 0 comments In Charlottesville, where Wachovia and BB&T are more ubiquitous that McDonald's and Burger King, the opening of a new local bank seems about as rare as a June snowstorm. But lo and behold, on...
James gang: Madison kin meet at Montpelier Published on Jun 23rd, 2005 0 comments This is not your typical family reunion– it's presidential! Every three years, descendants of the father of the Constitution descend on the fourth president's Orange County home, Montpelier....
Bridge builders: City honors Drewary Brown's legacy Published on Jun 16th, 2005 0 comments Their name plates already affixed to the Drewary Brown Bridge, six "bridge builders" were honored last week with speeches and a reception at First Baptist Church on Main Street. "This is one of the...
Rammed earth campaign: Waldorf School goes green Published on Jun 9th, 2005 0 comments My school's greener than your school! Is not! Is so! If local supporters have their way, students at the Charlottesville Waldorf School will soon win this youthful exchange, hands down. Parents,...
For the record: StoryCorps hits the bricks Published on Jun 2nd, 2005 0 comments WE all have stories to tell, and now we can tell them while luxuriously ensconced in a shiny Airstream trailer, thanks to the American Folklife Center. Like the Writers' Project of the Depression-era...
Raisin plan: PBS station sponsors Live Art Published on May 25th, 2005 0 comments There was no sun for Thursday night's WHTJ reception at Live Arts, but that didn't stop supporters and members of the local PBS station from raisin' Cain at a party celebrating Lorraine...