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Virginia Lacrosse Teams Believe in Life After Lovenew

University of Virginia men's and women's lacrosse teams advance in NCAA tourney, deal with grave loss.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Brendan Fitzgerald  |  05-18-2010  |  Sports

The Appalachian Trail Isn't Dead . . . Yetnew

Rising pollution and private development threaten the Appalachian Trail.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Brian Chidester  |  05-05-2010  |  Environment

How I Learned to Stop Eating Junk in 28 Daysnew

One reporter spends 28 days following a “reduced fat, high fiber, controlled carbohydrate” menu.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Caite White  |  04-28-2010  |  Food+Drink

Virginia is For Gun Loversnew

Recent laws make it easier to conceal info, carry weapons in Virginia.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Brendan Fitzgerald  |  04-21-2010  |  Policy Issues

Non-Discrimination Note Creates 'Fear and Anxiety' on UVA Campusnew

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recently slapped second-year University of Virginia student Seth Kaye in the face. Not literally, but Kaye said that was how he felt when he awoke to an e-mail outlining a letter Cuccinelli sent to the state’s public colleges.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Matt Deegan  |  03-17-2010  |  LGBT

No Cost for Dredging South Fork Yet: Locals Weigh In on Possibilitiesnew

With the exception of a slip of the tongue by Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Chairman Mike Gaffney, last week’s public meeting on a dredging feasibility study for the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir kept talk of potential costs underwater.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Brendan Fitzgerald  |  03-17-2010  |  Environment

Highlights for the 2010 Festival of the Booknew

Trying to visit every event at the 16th annual Festival of the Book is a good way to get your eyes strained and your ankles sprained, so C-VILLE put together a guide of things that seemed worth doing. Don't be shy to visit vabook.org for complete listings.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Andrew Cedermark  |  03-17-2010  |  Books

T-Model Ford Makes an Unannounced Stop Through Townnew

T-Model Ford is an old Mississippi Delta curiosity and a holdover from the early days of Fat Possum Records, an Oxford, Mississippi label originally formulated as a platform for a dying breed of blues — old, mostly African-American men with inscrutable relationships with their out-of-tune guitars.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Andrew Cedermark  |  03-10-2010  |  Music

What's Stopping Virginia From the Movement to Legalize Marijuana?new

After activists and academics and law enforcement members testified to change Virginia’s marijuana laws, and after a General Assembly subcommittee struck down two bills that would do that, what was left in a hearing room was this: a small baggie of a “leafy substance,” stashed behind the podium.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Scott Weaver  |  03-10-2010  |  Drugs

Study Finds Top Publics Give More Funding to Wealthy Studentsnew

The nation’s top public universities are cushioning the cost of college for those who need it the least. While the University of Virginia has made important progress in minority students’ access to higher education, it lagged behind when it came to enrolling low-income students.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Chiara Canzi  |  01-27-2010  |  Education

High-Paying Government Work is Coming to Albemarle County, Eventuallynew

Have you heard about those wages? Average salaries of $80,000! That’s $64 million on its way. Sixty four million dollars! And now they’re finally here. Well, about 50 of them. The rest are coming and all of them have to be here by September 2011.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Will Goldsmith  |  01-27-2010  |  Business & Labor

Mike London is New Head Football Coach at the University of Virginianew

Part of the pleasure of sports is the nakedness of its emperors. The head football coach might be the highest paid employee at a university, but for him there is no such thing as tenure. Seven days after canning its 38th football head coach, UVA had already found No. 39: Mike London.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Will Goldsmith  |  12-16-2009  |  Sports

What Charlottesville Businesses and Government Can Do Right Now to Up the Eco Factornew

Is it really time to party? Even in Charlottesville, where people try to live softly, an ever-growing stream of waste can threaten to offset major gains.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Andrew Cedermark  |  12-09-2009  |  Environment

Oops, My Bad! The Sorry State of Saying 'I'm Sorry'new

The "perfect" apology, if there is such a thing, can be whittled into three pieces, each of which is well illustrated in a letter that Emily Post dreamt up for 1922's Etiquette.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Andrew Cedermark  |  11-25-2009  |  Commentary

'Pirate Radio' Rocks the Boatnew

This is one of those ensemble comedies in which each member of the ensemble tends toward one-dimensionality, but that's OK because there are so many members, and they're all so talented.
C-Ville Weekly  |  Jonathan Kiefer  |  11-11-2009  |  Reviews

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