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cVillain.com is about Charlottesville (C-Ville for short). We love this town and can’t get enough of its restaurants, cafes, music, shops, and, importantly, gossip. When we sat down to brainstorm ideas for cVillain, we decided we didn’t want to m
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Where to Drink When You Turn 21 in Charlottesville?
One of our birdies sends in the following question: I’m turning 21 at the end of the month and I’m looking for the best place to have my first legal drink in c-ville. - I thought this woul...
Interview with the Villains of Charlottesville’s Real Estate Bubble Blog
If you haven’t heard of the Bubble Blog, it’s the antithesis of the Charlottesville Real Estate Media machine. The people who run it are anonymous from what I can tell. As fellow Villa...
How Much Do You Spend Eating Out in Charlottesville?
I know we all like to think of ourselves as ballers and all that, but how much do we really spend eating and drinking in Charlottesville? I just looked at my expenses for the last few weeks and...
What’s Going On Outside C-Ville’s Offices!?!?
Check out this twitter post from Outskirts Guy: cops swarm downtown mall…was close to c-ville weekly….arrests, dragaway, cuffs? Who has the deets?!...
What’s your new late night hangout in Charlottesville?
While being repeatedly disappointed with the late night at Cassis and X-Lounge and there being no late night at Ten yet I can’t help but feeling an ever increasing sadness about the loss of OXO...
Any idea what’s happening with The Tavern (restaurant on Emmett St, formerly Sarge’s)?
Two facts: 1. The Tavern (on Emmett) been closed since at least Saturday, with a sign on the door about re-training. (Although I haven’t looked today.) 2. The Health Department report. Do yo...
Which cVillain Do You E-Crush the Hardest?
It all started with Comment 120 in the latest Free for All. Floozy said she now e-crushes on 26 World. It reminded me that I’ve had a lot of e-crushes on this site.. Lys, Floozy, Lu Sid and...
Whole Foods Plan Approved
Whole Foods Market plan to move to the corner of Hydraulic Road and Hillsdale Drive has been approved by the Charlottesville Planning Commission. The new store, along with a three story parking gara...
8 Things You Don’t Ask People Touring Charlottesville
I got inspired by this article I read about the Chinese posters that are describing the 8 things to not ask Olympic tourists. The 8 Don’t Asks: Don’t ask about income or expenses, don’t as...
Roanoke Times “Discovers” Blogging and Is Scared
You have to love it when people get all worked up and scared about blogs. Hello Roanoke Times! cVillain is on your tail. Listen to this quote from a recent editorial: Other bloggers do not do as w...
Cougars in Charlottesville
When I saw the headline in the Daily Progress titled “COUGAR!” I immediately thought of the obvious association (from Wikipedia): Cougar refers to an older woman, usually in her 40s, 50s o...
Sacagawea Gets More Press Than Starving Babies
(We have not qualified that statement, but it sure does seem like it.) But seriously…The Daily Progress does some good investigatitive journalism on the whole meaning behind the alleged “s...
UNCUS Gets Inspection
From a little birdie… We were walking down the Mall last night around 8:30 and noticed a firetruck by Timberlake drugstore. There were a bunch of firemen around one of the red Hook (UNCUS) boxe...
Are Roofies Hitting Charlottesville?
We’ve heard from various sources that they or someone they know has had an experience that sounds like roofies were involved. One account: My friend thinks she might have been drugged on Frid...
Downtown Mall Renovation Epic: War of the Bricks (Ch. 1)
Today, I begin an epic and not just any epic. The Greeks had their Odysseus; the Romans, Aeneid, the Saxons, Beowulf. While Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall Renovation Epic has yet to find its ...
Where do we list ourselves in the Yellow Pages?
I’m setting up a separate phone number for the Spicy Bears and the guy on the phone asks me “where do you want to be listed in the phone book?” So, I respond and say “new media...
Work Happy Hours
A recent study conducted on CareerBuilder found that 1 in 5 workers regularly attend after-work drinks with c0-workers. What do they do there? Most commonly, they bad-mouth each other, kiss each...
Best Bicycle Shop in Charlottesville?
I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike So I just got a new job that’ll allow me to ride my bicycle to work most days. Just in time for $12/gal gas season, too. I need a bike tune-up p...
Charlottesville Food Superduper Awesome Mecca Has NO GOOD PASTRIES
I’m sick and tired of wondering up and down the mall, thinking to myself, “wow, it is such a wonderful morning outside and I would really like an espresso and a pastry.” I’m re...
Nightmare on Preston
So yesterday I was driving back from 29N from an out of town trip and I took Preston at around 4PM. I saw a bunch of police cars driving that way and honestly, I wanted to see what was up. I notice...
Charlottesville Smoke Caused by Swamp Creatures
Have no fear… the smoke you see outside ’tis but a swamp creature. The City has received numerous calls and concerns about the smoky air over the area. Although there are no official wa...
Oh, hey you guys, I’m just looking up stuff on MY IPHONE
Sorry, I didn’t see you there. Looks like you caught me sending and receiving email on my iPhone, which also has Google and even the internet! Oh man I can’t wait to join the ranks of you ...
Worrying About Downtown Mall Vacancies
NBC29 brought up an interesting fear about vacancies on the downtown mall. Taking the recent Order from Horder closing into consideration, the reporters discovered the fear of shop owners and touris...
Where do you play pinball in Charlottesville?
Another new Charlottesville blog, Doublesingledouble.com, needs help finding more pinball machines Charlottesville. They list some places, but I figured we would know better. Their list: Outback Lod...
The walk home
[photo by Raman Pfaff] Recently I was lucky enough to score an apartment downtown and was thrilled by the fact that I’d be able to walk to all the bars, get trashed and not have to drunk-drive h...
Is this guy reviewing our restaurants?
Ned Oldham is an educator, writer, and musician. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia in 1993, and since then has taught writing at several colleges, including Unive...