Snap o' the Day
Snap: Rainbow after the storm
Published on Apr 27th, 2011
1 comments The storm that roared through Charlottesville in the early evening of Tuesday, April 26 left behind an attractive rainbow. The storm dropped pea-sized hail and what appeared to be at least an inch of...
Snap: Volleyballing by University Avenue
Published on Apr 22nd, 2011
1 comments The new sand volleyball courts that UVA built last fall appear to have finally leaped into action. Here, what appears to be a pick-up game takes place under the sunny skies of April 17.
Snap: Katie Costello at the Southern
Published on Apr 21st, 2011
0 comments No relation to Elvis, but like the better-known sharer of the surname, Brooklyn-based Katie Costello recently received some Charlottesville acclaim, as she played the night of April 19 to a mostly...
Snap: Action on the Rivanna River
Published on Apr 20th, 2011
6 comments This is actually pre-flood fun on the Rivanna River.
Snap: The first Fridays in the nTelos Wireless Pavilion
Published on Apr 19th, 2011
5 comments The season's first Fridays after Five opened without incident on April 15 in the newly monikered nTelos Wireless Pavilion. The show occurred before the next-day deluge that quashed the Dogwood...
Snap: Hacked traffic warning
Published on Apr 18th, 2011
3 comments As if the recent closure of the bridge over the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks hasn't snarled traffic enough, this warning sign positioned in the Jefferson Park Avenue median was apparently hacked...
Snap: Day of the dandelions
Published on Apr 16th, 2011
1 comments "Who needs dogwoods?" asks photographer Anne Rucker, pointing out that while often considered weeds, dandelions are to her a sign of spring. "It is well known that the best way to see if a person...
The Great Wave off Avon Street
Published on Apr 1st, 2011
13 comments A graffiti artist has transformed one of the abutments of the old Belmont Bridge into an updated rendition of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," the most famous print by 18th and 19th Century Japanese...
New onions, new ticket, new copper
Published on Mar 27th, 2011
14 comments Onions sprout amid a traffic ticket and a partially-installed copper roof for the office building known as "Old Ivy Commons," located at 2496 Old Ivy Road but seen from Ivy Road.
Snap o' the Day: Commodities lesson
Published on Mar 9th, 2011
0 comments How quickly is the price of gas soaring? The photo to the left was taken at the Ivy Road Shell on Friday, March 4; the second, on Tuesday, March 8.
Snap o' the Day: Anyone missing their clothes?
Published on Mar 2nd, 2011
1 comments Was it the warm weather–- or something else–- that caused these jeans and t-shirt to be left neatly folded outside a Crozet subdivision fence Sunday morning, February 27?
Winter jasmine has come out
Published on Feb 25th, 2011
1 comments It's that time when the Hook takes a picture of the winter jasmine, a bellwether of the weather, at the corner of Rugby Road and University Avenue. This picture was taken the 19th of February, and it...
Snap o' the Day: Odd bird spotted in McIntire Park
Published on Feb 11th, 2011
5 comments Ornithologist/environmental scientist Pete Myers captured this exotic breed he believes may be a hybrid of Big Bird and a Eurasian species called the Hoopoe on January 28. Then again, it could be an...
Snap: Frat guys ready to cross... Alderman
Published on Feb 5th, 2011
2 comments Along Alderman Road near Scott Stadium, this group of fellows was carrying a big maroon banner bearing the fraternity initials of Phi Sigma Kappa. (Or was it Phi Kappa Psi? Or was it Phi Delta Theta...
Snap: Landmark shell, the new crane, and distant Wintergreen
Published on Feb 3rd, 2011
5 comments A January 21 view of the Landmark hotelus interuptus, the new crane building Waterhouse, and (if you click on the pic) the snowy slopes of Wintergreen ski resort off in the distance. Ski resorts must...
Snap: Free Union sunrise
Published on Feb 1st, 2011
2 comments The late-January sun rises over the Western Albemarle community of Free Union. Unlike this idyllic moment, Wednesday is expected to dawn with clouds and rain.
Snap: Oliver Kuttner plays the Field
Published on Jan 31st, 2011
5 comments The Charlottesville-based entrepreneur won the $5 million first prize in a national contest seeking fuel-efficient automotive innovation. PHOTO BY MEREDITH MONTAGUE Car-of-the-future inventor...
Snap: A snow 'Spectacle'
Published on Jan 28th, 2011
2 comments Circa 6pm on Wednesday, January 26. PHOTO BY TOM DALY Through the glass of the Spectacle Shop eyeglass store, a lone stroller paces the Downtown Mall during the January 26 "snowstorm."
Snap: Top down at 12°
Published on Jan 24th, 2011
7 comments Snapped January 24 on Hydraulic Road. PHOTO BY BOB KAHN While his vehicle's sensor measured the outdoor air at a cool 12 degrees Farhrenheit, Charlottesville resident Bob Kahn spotted this VW Eos...
Waterhouse rises
Published on Jan 21st, 2011
11 comments The crane as seen on Friday, January 21. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR Crews erected a construction crane on Thursday, January 20, a powerful visual symbol of the long-awaited (and scaled down) Waterhouse...
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