By Ben Hitchcock At 10:30pm on May 4, 1970, approximately 1,500 UVA students gathered on the Lawn to protest the murder of four student activists at Kent State University earlier that day. On ...
By Ben Hitchcock The roof of the front porch is missing, leaving exposed wood visible from the road. A notice from the Board of Architectural Review approving a window replacement has hung on ...
By Ben Hitchcock “I feel like I’ve been training for this one job for 30 years,” said Coy Barefoot when he took over as executive director of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society i...
You wouldn’t notice the cameras if you didn’t know what to look for—but once you see the first one, the others are easy to spot: black balls hanging from telephone poles like sinister Christma...
Normally, Charlottesville’s Alcoholics Anonymous members sit in chairs in a
circle. Now, they appear as squares in a grid. Coronavirus has forced much of
American life online, and addiction...
By Brielle Entzminger and Ben Hitchcock Three weeks ago, Charlottesville City Manager Chip Boyles announced that he had decided to fire Police Chief RaShall Brackney. The city will open a nati...
A few leafy green hemp plants sit on the second-floor windowsills in the
Charlottesville Cannabis Club’s lounge. A puffy, white sectional couch fills the
center of the room. The high-ceilinged...
From the seventh-floor balcony of the CODE Building, downtown Charlottesville
stretches out in front of you, misty blue mountains visible in the distance. Up
here, North Downtown’s brick build...
“You’re in Bills Country,” announced a blue-red-and-white banner hanging near
the entrance to Champion Grill. Geographically, I was nowhere near Bills
Country. I was here in Charlottesville, m...