Where's Willard Scott when you need him? Three generations of Snows gathered Thursday at the Snow Garden Center headquarters on Avon Street to celebrate the 100th birthday of the family business. "It's amazing to see something that started 100 years ag... »
Seven years after the idea for a radio show featuring "The American History Guys" was first floated in Charlottesville, the "Guys"– a dream team of two UVA history profs and a well-known college president– can boast that their program has beaten the od... »
Every year the nonprofit Emily Couric Leadership Forum picks an academic superstar demonstrating extraordinary leadership from among the seniors at each local high school– and a real-life leader. This year the life leader is award-winning pop culture j... »
Anthropologist extraordinaire"She is impressive," says Charlottesville-based evolutionary psychiatrist Andy Thomson, speaking of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a University of California-Davis-based researcher who is one of the world’s foremost experts on mothe... »
Is this a dream? Am I six years old again? It feels as though I’m flying, zooming past fellow passengers in the airport corridor, overtaking travelers dragging suitcases and bewildered toddlers. Vendors offering bottled drinks, gummy muffins, and forei... »
The Hook took home 10 journalism awards and 13 for advertising, including a Best in Show, at the April 21 Virginia Press Association conference in Roanoke. In the news side of the house, photographers Bill Emory and Tom Daly each won two awards. In the... »
Getting dressed for a party at the White House in the early 1980s, Sissy Spacek and husband Jack Fisk were donning their formal apparel at a posh Washington hotel when they suddenly realized they'd rather be back home in Albemarle in blue jeans. Furthe... »
One of Charlottesville's best-known brands is no more. But the shop launched 30 years ago as Atlantic Futon lives on, morphed by its founder into something suited to a changing marketplace. The rebranding into Atlantic Organic, a "natural sleep shop," ... »
Peter Chang is likely the only chef in America whose migration from one restaurant to the next over the last several years has been depicted by a map graphic in the Washington Post, from his arrival at the Chinese Embassy in D.C. to opening of his late... »
"Cville Bike mApp project is a regional bike-mapping project developed by the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization, in partnership with BikeCharlottesville, the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Vi... »
Rob Masri learned everything he needed to know to launch his 21st century phone app business Cardagin in his family's restaurant in southwest Virginia in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "My father always said to me, 'If the same 40 or 50 families didn'... »
As far as music festivals go, certain regions of the country have it covered: Chicago has Lollapalooza, Tennessee has Bonnaroo, and Austin has South-by-Southwest. What more do we need? According to local businessman and former City Council candidate Pa... »
For a town with a long lineage of locally-grown musicians, rounding up contenders as "up and coming" stars is easy, but choosing from all this talent is hard. Our venues are constantly packed with lots of bands, lots of sounds. So we turned to some big... »
May 1 at 11:30am at the Albemarle CourthouseProperty: 1646 Seminole TrailDebtor: WSG Charlottesville LLCOriginal amount owing: unknownBidder brings: $100,000 Info: Charles R. Schwartz 804-775-4351 May 2 at 3:15pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1... »
3/8/2012 Charlottesville Opre Gleasons Development LLC to Cooper W. Stewart & Louisa T. Bradford, 200 Garrett Street, Unit 402, $439,000 Ferdinand D. Harris, Jr., Sarah F. Harris, Reva L. Nowell, Leona E. Brown to Harriet Burns, 514 11th Street NW, $14... »
