Facetime
FACETIME- Ground ball: Darrell Gardner keeps the grass green
Published on May 10th, 2007
0 comments   Darrell Gardner PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO For almost as long as there's been youth baseball in Charlottesville, Darrell Gardner has been there to lend a hand. For nearly 50 years, those hands...
FACETIME- Pape's desire: Building goodness... and <i>Streetcar </i>
Published on May 3rd, 2007
0 comments Howard Pape PHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO Howard Pape thinks about redemption all the time– but he won't say why. Whatever compels him, a lot of people have benefited from his urges. When Hurricane...
FACETIME- Jethro lull: Local gal all over the place
Published on Apr 26th, 2007
0 comments Former Old School Freight Train member Ann Marie Calhoun has been in high demand all over town since she left the band in 2004, but late last year her career gathered a momentum that even she couldn'...
FACETIME- Computerized Coffey: How Ted breaks sound barriers
Published on Apr 19th, 2007
0 comments Whale songs, creaking wood, lapping water, electronic static– those were the unexpected noises Piedmont Virginia Community College students heard last November as they were walking to class...
FACETIME- Hot 'Trees': Band invites fans to the combustion
Published on Apr 12th, 2007
0 comments They've been incubating– all living in the same house, writing, rehearsing, with some sporadic shows. Now, the band Trees on Fire hopes to set Charlottesville on fire with a new weekly gig and...
FACETIME- Public works: Solla's art-full community dreams
Published on Apr 5th, 2007
1 comments How fun is this? Last year Piedmont Virginia Community College art chair Beryl Solla invited Broadus Wood Elementary School students to draw wild animals. Solla's PVCC class then replicated the...
FACETIME- Speaking in tongues: <i>Ecco</i> Christina Ball!
Published on Mar 29th, 2007
0 comments Forget everything you think you know about learning a foreign language– trudging through memorizing declensions and conjugating verbs ad nauseum– Ecco Italy founder Christina Ball is out...
FACETIME- Talking Ed: Gillespie aims to save Virginia GOP
Published on Mar 22nd, 2007
0 comments Ed Gillespie has made a career of pulling off the unexpected. In 1994, he co-authored the "Contract with America" that reclaimed Congress for the Republicans after 40 years. In 2000, he was the...
FACETIME- Magical mirrors: Llewellyn's lens captures, recreates history
Published on Mar 15th, 2007
1 comments Photographer Robert Llewellyn didn't intend to be an antiques collector. He has 600,000 slides and people would call, knowing he had photos of Boston or Washington.  "One day it changed,"...
FACETIME- Play boys: Watterson explores presidents' games
Published on Mar 15th, 2007
1 comments When historians try to capture the essence of the men who occupy the Oval Office, they shouldn't overlook their athletic ability, says John S. Watterson. The Charlottesville-based sports historian...
FACETIME- Cheryl's whirl: Multi-tasking mom approaches the bench
Published on Mar 8th, 2007
0 comments The celebration phase is over. Congratulatory flowers still sit on her desk, but Cheryl Higgins really doesn't have time to stop and smell the roses. "I've hit that nervousness mode," says she, amid...
FACETIME- Audio to visual: How Fischer collaged her life
Published on Mar 1st, 2007
2 comments Shelby Fischer froths milk for a cup of chai in her farmhouse kitchen before heading upstairs to her studio trailed by her three large dogs. As the mutts make themselves comfortable amid the...
FACETIME- Playing with Plato: McCarty guides little philosophers
Published on Feb 15th, 2007
0 comments Plato, Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant. They're great thinkers, and their complex works fill college course syllabi. But Marietta McCarty says there's no need to wait for adulthood to begin considering the...
FACETIME- Life's a beach: Local takes a walk on the wet side
Published on Feb 8th, 2007
0 comments There's a first time for every physical feat. Captain Matthew Webb was first to swim the English Channel in 1875. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest...
FACETIME- Drawing blood: Impagliazzo puts a fine point on it
Published on Jan 25th, 2007
0 comments Some girls are obsessed with Barbie, some love horses. The girlhood interests of Anita Impagliazzo, however, were decidedly more gruesome. "I was obsessed with the 'I am Joe's or Jane's Body Part'...
FACETIME- Cheer up: How Clayton tackles women's depression
Published on Jan 4th, 2007
0 comments For most doctors, spells of forgetfulness are a hindrance at work. For psychiatrist Anita Clayton, who recently turned the big 5-0, those spells actually help her relate to the women she treats. "I...
FACETIME- Card tricks: Wimberger's job pushes the envelope
Published on Dec 14th, 2006
2 comments Louisa Wimberger's Belmont home is stuffed to the studs with scraps of paper that other folks might banish to the rubbish bin. But then, other folks probably have far more mundane jobs. Two years ago...
FACETIME- No lie: Honenberger's career takes off
Published on Dec 7th, 2006
1 comments Sarah Honenberger appears to be on the way up as a writer, despite having just started in 2001 after leaving her job in family law. She still administers a couple of trusts and dabbles in the...
FACETIME- Cataloguing Caroline: Preston delves writers' worlds
Published on Nov 30th, 2006
0 comments The phone rings while Caroline Preston is talking to a visitor, and it's another local author, Donna Lucey, who, like Preston, is one-half of a writerly couple.  Is this Charlottesville's secret...
FACETIME- Hot flash: Pinkerton's midlife medical mission
Published on Nov 16th, 2006
0 comments JoAnn Pinkerton knows more about menopause than most other 52-year-old women. She's the director of the Midlife Health Center at UVA, the clinic she started in 1995 in an effort to bring the...
FACETIME- Yahya's brotherhood: Refugee turns attention to Darfur
Published on Nov 9th, 2006
0 comments Mohamed Yahya has an unusual view of the explosive political entanglements currently facing the United States: "There is no genocide in Iraq, there is no genocide in North Korea, there is no genocide...
FACETIME- Soul men: Hamiltons get their act together
Published on Nov 2nd, 2006
0 comments One of the critics in the Hook's music issue in April declared Ezra Hamilton "great" and "stupid"– great for making some of the most credible soul-influenced music around; stupid for never...
FACETIME- Vampire volume: McClelland drinks in success
Published on Oct 26th, 2006
0 comments Forget bats. Forget looming spooky castles. Forget slicked-back black hair and a cape and any other image that comes to mind when you hear the word "vampire." According to Bruce McClelland, author of...
FACETIME- Dynastic duo: Rosensky-Decker at 12
Published on Oct 19th, 2006
0 comments It's hard to talk about music in Charlottesville without a genuflection in the direction of Miller's. The downtown bar that was once home to Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds is now known as a buzzing...
FACETIME- Color them happy: Bright future for dark band?
Published on Oct 12th, 2006
0 comments Bella Morte bassist Gopal Metro is excited about the band's new album, Bleed The Grey Sky Black, and not just because it was released this week. Even while they were still working on it, he found it...
FACETIME- Thrummin' : Brenner makes ambiance without keys
Published on Oct 5th, 2006
0 comments Perhaps playing drums for the Falsies, a comical rock quartet– none of whose members actually know how to play their instruments– doesn't take up too much of Lance Brenner's time. He...
FACETIME- Stone's soup: CASA founder pleads for kids
Published on Sep 28th, 2006
0 comments Ruth Stone opened up her home to several troubled foster kids in the mid-1980s– but she worries today whether she really made a difference. "Things didn't turn out well for kids I really cared...
FACETIME- Telford's task: Taking on the religious right
Published on Sep 14th, 2006
0 comments George Telford remembers the rise of Nazi Germany– and the role of some major religious organizations. "Some were co-opted by the Nazis; others were fearful and silent," he says. "Never again...
FACETIME- I love Lucey: Ghost approves of latest book
Published on Sep 7th, 2006
0 comments Donna Lucey doesn't believe in ghosts. At least she didn't before she started writing Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age. While researching the tumultuous relationship between...
FACETIME- Easy riders: Helping kids go the distance
Published on Aug 31st, 2006
0 comments On Saturday mornings, typical teenagers sleep in, IM their friends, hook up to their iPods, and generally laze around. But for 11 young members of the local Boys and Girls Club, since last May,...