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New restaurant takes over Fry’s Spring Station location
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -A popular spot is making a change. Formerly a gas station, then empty for years, and finally becoming fry’s spring station, the building will now be home to a different restaurant. Pi Napo, a wood-fired pizza place will be coming soon to the Charlottesville neighborhood of...
Charlottesville Reading Series to host essayist, UVA professor B. Brian Foster
The Charlottesville Reading Series will host an in-person reading on Friday, at 7 p.m. at New Dominion Bookshop. The event will feature a reading and audience Q&A with essayist B. Brian Foster. The event will be free to attend and open to the public. B. Brian Foster is a writer,...
Films added to VAFF at Violet Crown series
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Two more films have been added to this year’s Virginia Film Festival at Violet Crown series. On May 30, there will be a screening of Janet Planet, a girl’s coming-of-age story set in rural western Massachusetts in the 1990s. And on June 25,...
PARTING SHOT: A love letter to Cav Daily and Connection
It all started with nothing more than a camera and a dream. I arrived on Grounds in 2020 starry-eyed with one goal in mind — making connections in a time full of distance. I had been a photographer for my high school newspaper, so when I saw that The Cavalier Daily had a photo desk, I thought it seemed like a good fit. What I didn’t know was how much I would learn from my time on The Cavalier Daily — it would have a drastic impact in developing my leadership skills and changing the way that I view the little moments of life. What I didn’t know was how quickly a group of people could go from strangers to best friends, much less how these people would come to feel like home.
Reporter Erin O’Hare featured at CreativeMornings this week
On Friday, May 17, Charlottesville Tomorrow neighborhoods reporter Erin O’Hare will give a talk during the monthly CreativeMornings speaker series. The topic is “vibrant,” and Erin will talk about how she remembers that Charlottesville is a vibrant community, when her journalistic work often focuses on its problems.
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