Snap o' the Day
Blood on the bricks
Published on May 31st, 2012
2 comments A six-foot swath of blood drops splattered on the Downtown Mall bricks near the crossing at Second Street greeted people Thursday morning. Police had not responded to an inquiry from the Hook at post...
Bikini bonfire
Published on May 29th, 2012
0 comments In Western Albemarle a bonfire burns as nearly a dozen bikini-clad girls run around it. Must be some sort of Memorial Day ceremony– or else it was a birthday party for the daughter of a pyro.
Jennifer Stuart: She's the Paramount Idol winner
Published on May 23rd, 2012
2 comments On the same night that semi-shaven fellow with similar first and last names won the eleventh season of American Idol, a Central Virginian was named the winner of the Paramount Idol, a spiffy little...
Over Alan Jackson
Published on May 20th, 2012
0 comments This is how the free Sunday evening concert that country music superstar Alan Jackson gave the people of Louisa County looked. The May 20 event was limited to a crowd of 6,000– 3,000 residents...
When trees sprout photographs...
Published on May 18th, 2012
0 comments ...That means Look3, Charlottesville's photography fest, is just around the corner. The underwater photos of National Geographic's David Doubilet started going up at 7am Friday, May 18. Doubilet will...
Shadwell surprise-- for some, anyway
Published on May 14th, 2012
2 comments Beginning May 1, drivers on the east side of town have been dealing with an interruption as the Virginia Department of Transportation rebuilds the 73-year-old bridge carrying U.S. 250 across the CSX/...
Those Darlins at the Haven
Published on May 12th, 2012
0 comments Those Darlins helped open the big final weekend of the Tom Tom Founders Festival by performing May 11 at the Haven, the downtown church turned day shelter for down-on-their-luck folks.
Keeping our fountains flowing
Published on May 10th, 2012
1 comments Twobears Burgos is the fountain expert with Charlottesville Parks & Rec, and he's performing maintenance on the Central Place fountain on the Downtown Mall to keep it from getting clogged up....
Where's the fire?
Published on May 9th, 2012
0 comments A stove fire at the Nook around 1:30pm May 9 brings at least four Charlottesville firetrucks to the Downtown Mall and evacuates the restaurant. Damage is minimal, according to a firefighter on the...
They boogied... before midnight
Published on May 4th, 2012
3 comments Skip Castro entertained a massive crowd at Fridays After Five on May 4, and the crowd seemed to know the words to the songs to which they were dancing. The band, which got its start in...
Deck the Mall: Fancy Fleurie adds space for 22
Published on May 4th, 2012
14 comments Fleurie, the compact and upscale restaurant on the Downtown Mall's Third Street NE, will finally get its own café, as these images from May 3 indicate. The restaurant, owned by chef Brian Helleberg,...
All fresco: Taking farm-to-table literally
Published on May 3rd, 2012
0 comments "Our carbon footprint," says our waiter at a recent dinner at Zinc, "is pretty low from there to there." Related story Heavy metal: Zinc patio gets zincier He's pointing out the bed of herbs, peas...
Mayer Hawthorne breaks hearts at the Jefferson
Published on Apr 23rd, 2012
0 comments Mayer Hawthorne, a crooning white guy in a dinner jacket whose music echoes the Stylistics and other soulful sounds of the 1960s, performed for an appreciative Monday night crowd at the Jefferson...
Splash means summer season on Mall
Published on Apr 23rd, 2012
0 comments The fountains at Central Place and other locations on the Downtown Mall were "energized" on April 17, which means they were cut on and will be cascading until the fall.
Caplin theater progresses
Published on Apr 22nd, 2012
2 comments The Ruth Caplin Theatre begins its rise on Culbreth Road. Headed up by Nielsen Construction, the $13.5 million addition to the University of Virginia's drama complex will provide a 300-seat, thrust-...
Tea Party rallies on tax day
Published on Apr 17th, 2012
0 comments Three years ago, the Jefferson Area Tea Party tax day rally filled what is now the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. On April 16, a smaller band of citizens assembled at the Free Speech monument in front of...
Sunday morning painting at Madison Hall
Published on Apr 15th, 2012
0 comments While parishioners flocked to nearby St. Paul's Church, a crew of painters spent their Sunday morning painting the exterior of Madison Hall, the UVA building that holds the office of the university...
Tom Tom takes McGuffey
Published on Apr 14th, 2012
0 comments The downtown block party to kick off a month's worth of events for the inaugural Tom Tom Founders Festival took place as planned April 13 with a blocked-off Second Street NW in front of the McGuffey...
Spellbound at the Paramount
Published on Apr 11th, 2012
3 comments A team called "Spellbound" from the Daily Progress won Wordplay, a benefit cultural literacy game at the Paramount Theater Wednesday night. The April 11 event was organized to benefit the Literacy...
Wisterious house blooms with abandonment
Published on Apr 10th, 2012
0 comments Wisteria thrives at a seemingly unoccupied dwelling in Blackwells Hollow, in the northwest corner of Albemarle. Photographed April 8.
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