Game of throws: Local disc golfers battle the elements to raise money for food banks in annual winter contest. What’s the worst weather in which you’ve played sports? Read it at the #linkinbio.
📸: Eze Amos
09.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Death doula Darnell Lamont Walker explains why people of all ages need stories to better understand their lives. Read it at the #linkinbio.
06.02.2026 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fresh injection: In the race to make antiviral vaccines faster and cheaper, UVA Health researchers enlist … bacteria? What disease would you like to see new vaccines against? Read it at the #linkinbio.
04.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Jazz funk outfit Lettuce gets better with time, and wine, bottling a vino collab for new album Cook. Catch them at the Jefferson Theater on 2/3.
02.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Taller dollars, neighbors holler: With both tax revenue and community friction increasing, West Main Street’s future remains up in the air. What would you change in that part of town? Read it at the #linkinbio.
📷: @tristanwilliams
29.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Surprising lessons: To improve outcomes at city schools, says local nonprofit City of Promise, we should invest directly in students and their communities. How would you close achievement gaps? Read it at the #linkinbio.
📸: Eze Amos
28.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new luchador-labeled tequila from UVA alum Chad Walldorf and comedian Danny McBride is winning over local mixologists. What’s your favorite tequila-inclusive drink? (No one say “margaritas.”)
Read it at the #linkinbio.
26.01.2026 14:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No crying over split milk: Pre-storm shopping left shelves bare at Trader Joe’s Friday as a significant snow event looms.
📸: @tristanwilliams.bsky.social
24.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Board room: Five Youngkin-appointed members of UVA’s Board of Visitors, including the rector and vice rector, resign as Gov. Spanberger takes office. How would you change the Board’s composition or rules? Read it at the #linkinbio.
21.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From world class red wine to piled-high Reubens, the new year brings us enticing new indulgences.
16.01.2026 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fewer people are hunting in Virginia—but more of them are women, and the venison they’re harvesting is helping to fill food pantries and feed the hungry. Die, my deer
15.01.2026 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Caramont Farm founder Gail Hobbs-Page brings new cheesemaking ideas home from Italy. Read more: c-ville.com/cheesemaker-....
12.01.2026 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A nightmare for the Virginia Dream Act: Outgoing AG Jason Miyares, son of an immigrant, agrees with the DOJ that Virginia must deny in-state college tuition to immigrant students. Read more: www.c-ville.com/virginia-att....
11.01.2026 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Herons 2, developers 0. The Albemarle Planning Commission clips the wings of a second request to fill in floodplain for a Woolen Mills project. Read more: www.c-ville.com/developers-b....
10.01.2026 14:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hampton Roads resident Akeylah Simone brings the AS IS | Black First Tour to The Front Porch on Saturday in a soul-stirring performance that celebrates Black identity, resilience, and artistry. Read more: www.c-ville.com/akeylah-simo....
09.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Missing the Mark: Why the city’s architectural review board gave proposed new student housing a failing grade. Read more: www.c-ville.com/design-panel....
09.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (“Slow Horses,” Dunkirk) and Emmy- and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, “The Responder”) star in The Fifth Step the subversively funny play by David Ireland, directed by Finn den Hertog. Read more: www.c-ville.com/the-fifth-st....
08.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What does 2026 hold for Charlottesville? We asked local experts for their predictions on politics, business, food, and more. Read more: www.c-ville.com/local-pros-p....
08.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Local music luminary Michael Clem performs new tracks from his latest release, 60¢ A Gallon, Friday at The Front Porch. Read more: www.c-ville.com/michael-clem....
07.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The line must be drawn here! … Or there. Or maybe over there. Local elected officials weigh in on the General Assembly’s plan for mid-decade redistricting. Read more: www.c-ville.com/from-perriel....
07.01.2026 13:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
The fairest of them all just may be the Grand Kyiv Ballet’s gentler take on Snow White. Read more: www.c-ville.com/the-grand-ky....
02.01.2026 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three Notch’d Road celebrates the season with Bethlehem: A Christmas Pilgrimage, which offers two regional performances by The Virginia Baroque Ensemble. Read more: www.c-ville.com/bethlehem-a-....
01.01.2026 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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31.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Forgo the ubiquitous best-of lists, and dig into our selection of authors with local ties. Read more: www.c-ville.com/books-that-l....
31.12.2025 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fewer homes, more commercial space, same disagreements. The Albemarle Planning Commission narrowly OKs rezoning for 600 new housing units near US 29/I-64. Read more: www.c-ville.com/planning-com....
30.12.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Slide into the New Year with Southern Culture on the Skids, the dynamic trio from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that’s been raising hell with genre-collapsing rock ‘n’ roll for more than three decades. Read more: www.c-ville.com/southern-cul....
29.12.2025 13:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The immersive experience with retro-stellar sensibilities, where extraterrestrial costumes are encouraged, features three different DJs spinning high-energy celestial mixes—including Fancy K. Read more: www.c-ville.com/studio-51-at....
28.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YIMBY: Yes In My Budget, Y’all? City Council gets a preview of next year’s requests to fund affordable housing. Read more: www.c-ville.com/charlottesvi....
25.12.2025 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Short-term rentals, long-term problems? Amid lively community debate, Charlottesville proposes (slightly) stricter rules on homestays. Read more: www.c-ville.com/city-officia....
24.12.2025 13:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stacey Evans trains her camera on the Northeast Regional corridor in “Passenger: Riding the Rails” on view at Second Street Gallery. Read more: www.c-ville.com/stacey-evans....
22.12.2025 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
