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Hurd, leader: Outgoing student BOV'er heads overseas
Published on May 16th, 2013
3 comments Hillary Hurd had been the student BOV representative for just a few weeks when the events that became known as UVA June thrust the school, its president and the Board of Visitors into the glare of...
Blaze's glory: UVA's new student BOV rep does it all
Published on May 16th, 2013
0 comments With a name like Blake Blaze, people are probably going to remember you no matter what you do, but UVA's new student Board of Visitors representative is making sure he's known for more than his...
Social capitalist: Fairchild's unlikely B-school path
Published on Apr 11th, 2013
0 comments Greg Fairchild has to cancel a phone interview. He's in Macedonia and has been invited to the president's house to listen to jazz after they discovered a mutual interest in Chet Baker earlier that...
Focused on a cure: Kassell's ultrasound vision
Published on Mar 28th, 2013
0 comments Every once in a while, a technology comes along that revolutionizes medicine. Sometimes, it just takes a while to recognize its impact. In 1970, for instance, Neal Kassell saw a CT scan for the first...
Peace plan: Scott Atran talks to terrorists
Published on Mar 21st, 2013
0 comments Scott Atran runs with a rough, international crowd– jihadis, mujahideen, and lashkars– otherwise known as Islamic fundamentalists, otherwise known as terrorists, who have invited Atran...
Orr's Beloved: Death defines a life
Published on Mar 14th, 2013
1 comments Gregory Orr knows about loss. In a hunting accident when he was 12, he shot and killed his brother. Two years later, his mother died, overnight.He started writing poetry at age 17, as a way out of...
Lifemobile: 'Master of disaster' Rintels gets personal
Published on Mar 14th, 2013
0 comments “Asperger’s syndrome” was the diagnosis given to Charlottesville-based writer Jonathan Rintels’ son, J.B.  “Unsafe at any speed” is what Ralph Nader called the Chevrolet Corvair in 1965. But...
Jane's predilection: Falling in love with a prophet
Published on Mar 14th, 2013
3 comments How did a nice girl from a good, WASP-y family in D.C. grow into a woman who fell in love with the founding prophet of Mormonism? Jane Barnes details that story in her 2012 book, Falling in Love with...
Bad karma: Christopher Tilghman's Right-Hand Shore
Published on Mar 14th, 2013
0 comments Christopher Tilghman isn't complaining. When his first book in eight years, The Right-Hand Shore, rolled out last year, he got glowing reviews in national publications like the New York Times. His...
Tastes like chicken: Landers takes bite out of invasive species
Published on Mar 14th, 2013
4 comments Of course Jackson Landers recently ate python at the big hunt in the Everglades, and naturally, the machete slaying involved a biker named Lucky. "Outdoor Life wanted photographs of a python...
People Project: Sprouse clicks with Cville's everyman
Published on Dec 21st, 2012
2 comments “I believe that we come to know a city through the people who live there, so my goal is to depict the city of Charlottesville through its inhabitants,” writes Keith Alan Sprouse, of his new...
Wheeler's deal: Top musician turns to choir and college
Published on Dec 3rd, 2012
5 comments “The king of gospel keyboards” and “the Lucky 7 philosopher”– these are just two of the titles that have been bestowed upon composer, keyboardist, and all-around musician extraordinaire Art...
Sisson's vision: Radio saves the video stars
Published on Nov 2nd, 2012
2 comments When making independent films is your passion, but making them profitable gets harder and harder, what do you do? If you're Albemarle resident Barry Sisson, producer of several pictures including...
Citizen Lane: Unstoppable agitator pens lively memoir
Published on Oct 15th, 2012
5 comments His backyard in Charlottesville's Bellair neighborhood is far removed from the jungle of Guyana, and the grandfatherly man relaxing in a patio chair doesn't seem the type to tangle with murderous...
Revolutionary: How to film upheaval-- and pick up girls
Published on Oct 3rd, 2012
2 comments The filmmaker was living in Argentina in the 1970s, a tumultuous and dangerous place that saw the return of General Juan Perón in 1973, the reign of his widow Isabel Perón, her ouster in a military...
Backyard analogy: Prum celebrates 250... live and out loud
Published on Oct 1st, 2012
0 comments The author Deborah Prum has won awards– like the Hook's 2003 fiction contest. The musician Debby Prum is ready to have a hoedown. But Prum will bring other talents to bear on how...
Hidden otherness: Dimock draws and advocates in plain sight
Published on Sep 24th, 2012
1 comments Kaki Dimock gives new meaning to the term “working artist.” By day, she is the Executive Director of The Haven, the day shelter on Market Street. By night, in her home in Schuyler, Dimock creates...
Dramatic tension: Kielbasa counts down to opening night
Published on Sep 16th, 2012
0 comments Jody Kielbasa is tired. When we spoke with him, the Virginia Film Festival director had been in Richmond the previous night, trying to celebrate his wife's birthday while dealing with emails during...
Retro arts: Arthur fuses tune and tome in 'Heart'
Published on Sep 10th, 2012
1 comments Leave it to a guy who spent his youth in Charlottesville to find a way to bring new life to two art forms most critics have written off as unpopular or dying: the concept album and the American...
Accidental dream: Would-be filmmaker turns to cakes
Published on Aug 27th, 2012
0 comments Less than a year a year ago, Amanda Smith didn't have business cards and wasn't even sure what direction she wanted to take her company. But who knows, maybe an unexpected dream fueled by a childhood...
Girl of summer: Caroline Lund a slugger to watch
Published on Jul 31st, 2012
10 comments When his daughter was a little girl, Eric Lund says she'd sit and watch Yankees games with him on TV, asking questions about all the game's nuances. Later, when most girls adorned their walls with...
Separate and together: Unconventional marriage inspires book
Published on Jul 17th, 2012
2 comments Couples with a marriage on the rocks might benefit from this counterintuitive piece of advice for staying together: split up. One local woman's story is lending some serious credence to thinking...
Walk-in doc: FirstMed hits 51,000th patient mark
Published on Jun 5th, 2012
11 comments Thirteen years ago, William G. "Gaines" Talbott and his family took a big risk, selling their home to purchase UVA's urgent care unit on Pantops without a single patient lined up. It was a risk that...
Reefer activism: 2.6-ounce possessor fights back in Drug War
Published on May 28th, 2012
128 comments Here's what Jordan McNeish learned after nearly half a year in jail: "There are two classes of people: people who have done something they think they should be in jail for, and people who think the...
Indie artist: Musical Oldham finally tackles film acting
Published on May 21st, 2012
1 comments Local musician Ned Oldham's artistic journey has been a quirky and interesting one–- punk rocker, psychedelic groove maker, college and middle school teacher, writing center director, folk...
Taliban blowback: Fiction tackles reality in debut novel
Published on May 15th, 2012
4 comments Fathers quietly bring home the burdens and responsibilities of their work, which their children often notice in his tired eyes or a heavy sigh. For local author Mark Saunders, that boyhood curiosity...
American garden: Peter Hatch and the restoration of Jefferson's landscape
Published on Apr 16th, 2012
0 comments Peter Hatch is all over the place this month. He's in Washington to help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House vegetable garden, he's in San Francisco for a Gardening Conservancy symposium...
Beautiful kill: UVA doc takes aim at deadliest cancer
Published on Mar 28th, 2012
37 comments Glioma is the most common and deadly kind of brain cancer. Each year, 10,000 Americans are diagnosed, and only half survive beyond a year. Only a quarter after two years. But research at the...
Only 30: In America… and she needs a kidney
Published on Mar 1st, 2012
15 comments By Brittany Gamble It’s 11am, and Tihana Macakanja has just spent two and a half hours hooked to a machine; and even after the procedure ends, she's facing a 15-minute drive home. It's an arduous...
Simpson's folly? Nelsonian gets serious about Alaska race
Published on Jan 12th, 2012
3 comments After more than a generation as the unofficial ambassador of Nelson County, Russ Simpson suddenly finds himself unrecognizable. The proprietor of a popular roadside stand along U.S. 29 has recently...