Snap o' the Day
Snap: Tom Daly on Rugby Road
Published on May 31st, 2010
1 comments Tom Daly by Tom Daly. PHOTO BY ... Photographer Tom Daly captures himself Wednesday, May 26 on the front porch of the UVA Art Museum with some of the Mad Bowl fraternities in the background. (Daly...
Snap o' the day: Carrion eaters in Crozet
Published on May 26th, 2010
5 comments Nature's way. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE With VDOT budget cutbacks, vultures will have more of a chance to pick clean the deer carcasses littering roads, such as this one on Three Notched in Crozet.
Snap: Death penalty protest on High Street
Published on May 24th, 2010
11 comments Protesters gathered Thursday in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Courthouse. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Citizens unhappy about the then-impending execution of convicted murderer Darick Walker...
Snap o' the day: Final exercise
Published on May 23rd, 2010
0 comments There's one in every crowd. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Members of Darden's graduating class of 2010 listen attentively to President John Casteen's May 23 commencement address.
Snap o' the day: Fenced out
Published on May 20th, 2010
0 comments Merchants at the Square in Crozet are being squeezed by the loss of two-thirds of the parking there. PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE The controversial no-park zone at the Square in Crozet, fenced in by...
Snap o' the day: Happy birthday, Jim Lehrer
Published on May 19th, 2010
0 comments This luncheon moderated by Jim Lehrer. PHOTO BY DOMINIQUE ATTAWAY The Newshour with Jim Lehrer host was in Charlottesville yesterday, speaking at a luncheon for WHTJ PBS top donors at the Clifton...
Snap: Elementary fun run
Published on May 18th, 2010
0 comments Second- and third-graders explode off the starting line. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Early Sunday evening on May 16 (when some UVA runners were racing in North Carolina), some youthful contenders were...
Snap: Carr's Field train
Published on May 17th, 2010
1 comments About a dozen miles west of this point, a railroad controversy reigns. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER Two spectators to first-round action at the Boys Middle School Lacrosse League's season-ending...
Snap o' the day: No problems here
Published on May 14th, 2010
0 comments Heavy rains, high winds, lightning and thunder did not stop the Iguanas from sizzling at Fridays after 5 on May 14.
Snap: Burning bushes, but no God
Published on May 9th, 2010
4 comments A Charlottesville firefighter extinguishes the blaze. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER While there were several burning bushes downtown Sunday at 3:26pm, God didn't appear (at least not in any obvious way)....
Snap: Kid at a castle
Published on May 9th, 2010
1 comments A child enjoys the cooling breeze and Italianate architecture Saturday, May 1 at Swannanoa, the 1912 mansion atop Afton Mountain and open eleven weekends this summer. Next opportunity is June 5 &...
Snap: Festival of Cultures
Published on May 8th, 2010
1 comments It was organized by the City school system. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER The Festival of Cultures has drawn hundreds, and perhaps thousands of citizens to downtown Charlottesville's Lee Park on Saturday,...
Snap o' the day: Rotunda under siege
Published on May 5th, 2010
9 comments National news media get primo parking in front of UVA's primo landmark.
Snap: 'Blue Ridge East Fall' on Barracks
Published on May 2nd, 2010
0 comments Barracks Road at U.S. 250 gets its second Art in Place mural, thanks to a bucket truck mustered on Thursday, April 29, by Photoworks. The piece is a digital reproduction of a painting by Catherine...
Snap o' the day: Firetruck on the Mall
Published on Apr 27th, 2010
0 comments A small blaze behind Wachovia Bank April 27 around lunch time evacuates the building while the air clears inside.
Snap o' the day: Poignant tribute
Published on Apr 21st, 2010
1 comments A white bicycle stands on the the corner of West Main and 4th Street NW as a memorial to UVA grad student Matt King, 23, who died April 19 after a collision with a Charlottesville Public Works truck...
Snap o' the Day: Springtime for Robert E. Lee
Published on Apr 20th, 2010
0 comments The General almost seems to tiptoe through the tulips in Lee Park.
Snap: When ski slopes melt... and nearly burn
Published on Apr 18th, 2010
0 comments Massanutten Resort, near Harrisonburg, may have closed its ski season in late March, but a few slivers of snow lingered on until at least 2pm on Thursday, April 15, as seen in this image by pilot/...
Snap: Creative branding
Published on Apr 15th, 2010
1 comments A car showing a creative branding strategy was parked yesterday, April 14, near the Downtown Mall on Second Street NW. The car touts a beer called Shock Top Belgian White, part of the Michelob line...
Snap o' the day: Garden week
Published on Apr 14th, 2010
0 comments April around here isn't just spring–- it also includes Historic Garden Week in Virginia. That official commemoration and floral adulation runs April 17-25. Locally, the good garden viewing is...
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