Snap o' the Day
Snap: Sunset over the new volleyball courts
Published on Sep 15th, 2010
0 comments The lights are in, but the nets aren't up yet. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER UVA's new volleyball courts gleam under their new lights, installed earlier this month. Nets? Any day now. (Photo taken 7:35pm,...
Snap: Broken down Trolley on West Main
Published on Sep 10th, 2010
0 comments Around 8am, Friday, September 3. PHOTO BY KEVIN COX The Free Trolley doesn't always get to where it's going.
Snap o' the day: Lady Gaga does Charlottesville
Published on Sep 9th, 2010
0 comments Lady Gaga looms large. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Charlottesville found its way to the Monster Ball September 8, where a UVA t-shirt, giant wigs and fake blood were among the looks sported by Lady Gaga...
Snap: Marching to success
Published on Sep 6th, 2010
2 comments Cafe diners, right, register their awe. PHOTO BY JEANNE SILER With trumpets blaring and tubas piping, the Cavalier Marching Band created a wall of sound on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall Friday...
Snap: Twirling lights near Jefferson Theater
Published on Sep 5th, 2010
1 comments That's the Jefferson Theater at right behind the tallest twirl. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Ever wonder what happens outside the Jefferson Theater at 10:02pm on a Friday night? Well, at that time on...
Snap: Sunset near Brown's Lock
Published on Sep 4th, 2010
0 comments L-R: The Mentor building, Brown's Lock & Safe, and the Omni hotel, as seen from the McGuffey Art Center during First Fridays. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER This is how downtown looked from the McGuffey...
Snap: Ready for takeoff in Gordonsville
Published on Sep 2nd, 2010
0 comments The "takeoff roll" on the paved runway. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The Gordonsville Municipal Airport has been getting some extra attention recently. Known to aviators at KGVE and owned by the town that...
Snap: Barboursville on a hot and sunny Saturday
Published on Sep 1st, 2010
1 comments Barboursville at 12:17pm on August 28. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The ruins of Barboursville a neo-Palladian mansion designed by none other than Thomas Jefferson, gleam in the noonday sun last Saturday...
Snap o' the day: Hillsdale Connector emerges... a little
Published on Aug 31st, 2010
6 comments A new road means new stoplights on Hydraulic and a new way to get to Kmart. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE A new street off Hydraulic Road between Kmart/Gold's Gym and the under-construction Whole Foods...
Snap: City Market
Published on Aug 23rd, 2010
0 comments It happens every Saturday from 7am to noon. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER What most towns call their farmer's market, Charlottesville calls the City Market. It happens every Saturday just south of the...
Snap: Downtown panorama, stitched
Published on Aug 22nd, 2010
3 comments 7:11am, Friday, August 20. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Downtown Charlottesville and all the mountains from Browns to Lewis to the Blue Ridge as seen in an image shot from the old Monticello Hotel and...
Snap: Walking to the Corner
Published on Aug 21st, 2010
2 comments View from inside the UVA eye clinic in the old hospital building. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER A lone pedestrian walks toward the Corner 9:46am, Thursday, August 19.
Snap: Pre-rain downtown sunset
Published on Aug 17th, 2010
3 comments 7:49pm Tuesday, August 17 from 500 Court Square. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The sun sets over Lewis Mountain, as Charlottesvillians prepare for a near certain rainstorm. The National Weather Service...
Snap: Sunset over Beaver Creek (and Hobie Cat)
Published on Aug 12th, 2010
3 comments Beaver Creek, 8:02pm Thursday. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The sun sets over over the Blue Ridge and Beaver Creek Reservoir, a Crozet-area water body whose 104-acre surface provide anglers and occasional...
Snap: Seniors flock to a Hurt-free debate
Published on Aug 11th, 2010
9 comments Talking heads and listening heads. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE MARIE GARCIA It was a packed house at the Senior Center on Wednesday as the Senior Statesmen of Virginia hosted the Fifth Congressional District...
Snap o' the day: President Sullivan meets the press
Published on Aug 6th, 2010
0 comments Teresa Sullivan settles into her new job PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE UVA President Teresa Sullivan invited the media in for a chat August 6 as she finished her first week as head of Virginia's flagship...
Snap 'o the day: Counterprotest
Published on Aug 5th, 2010
7 comments Catholics United and Congressman Tom Perriello supporters show up at a Tea Party press conference. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Good times at the Free Speech Monument August 2.
Snap o' the day: Protest and counterprotest
Published on Aug 3rd, 2010
4 comments Kirk Bowers (left) and Steve Peters agree to disagree. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE The Jefferson Area Tea Party and a group called DeFundIt.org host a press conference to denounce federal funding of...
Snap: Moriah Harris at Blue Moon
Published on Jul 28th, 2010
3 comments Moriah Harris PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Singer-songwriter Moriah Harris (who sounds a little like Norah Jones) performs at Blue Moon Diner Monday, July 26 in support of her new album of rainy-day music...
Snap o' the day: Stuck truck o' the day
Published on Jul 22nd, 2010
5 comments Around 9am on University Avenue, the eastbound lane was blocked. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Another over-10-feet-high vehicle hears the siren call of the 14th Street bridge, fails to heed its warning...
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