Charlottesville’s only violin maker is a modern man working in an ancient world
For The Daily Progress
Jonathan Vacanti sat at his workshop with his tools and patiently scraped away everything that was not a violin.
“Violin making is a very old system from the 1500s, so they didn’t have sandpaper, so they used these scrapers,” he told The Daily Progress, working away.
Vacanti is a luthier, meaning he crafts stringed instruments. When professional violinists and cellists want a fine handmade instrument, they go to the modest building which hosts his shop at Third and Market streets in downtown Charlottesville.
Vacanti is a luthier, meaning he crafts stringed instruments. When professional violinists and cellists want a fine handmade instrument, they go to the modest building which hosts his shop at Third and Market streets in downtown Charlottesville.
The 54-year-old has been working in Charlottesville for more than a decade, and remains the only luthier in the area. He spends his days in his studio, tooling away at violins, violas and cellos which will later be heard at concerts, benefits and other performances all across Central Virginia and the commonwealth.
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Duckpin bowling returns to Charlottesville for first time in decades
For The Daily Progress
The newest tenant at Charlottesville’s Dairy Market food hall is also one of its largest, but its premise is all about keeping things small.
SunPins has brought duckpin bowling, the bite-size cousin of the more popular tenpin bowling, back to the city for the first time in decades.
Mockingbird to open new patio next door to Belmont eatery
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Mockingbird to open new patio next door to Belmont eatery
Jane Sathe
The bowling alley has filled the space in the Dairy Market’s western wing left vacant after South & Central steakhouse closed its doors last September.
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Mockingbird to open new patio next door to Belmont eatery
Jane Sathe
The bowling alley has filled the space in the Dairy Market’s western wing left vacant after South & Central steakhouse closed its doors last September.
The inspiration behind SunPins is another sports entertainment enterprise.
“This was born out of a visit to Topgolf,” SunPins founder George Ordway told The Daily Progress. “I was really interested in and impressed by the way those folks took the game of golf and really used it as a way to bring people together.”
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Downtown staple Sub Shop is demolished
For the Columbia Missourian
Sub Shop, a downtown Columbia staple, started in 1975 with a bread recipe and $4,000. The last location remaining met its final end Monday morning as a local crew tore apart the Eighth Street location, leaving debris across the lot where it stood for decades.
Excavation crews demolish the Sub Shop on Monday in downtown Columbia. The shop once had five locations, but was down to just the Eighth Street location by the time it closed in November.
Locals recall the Sub Shop as a colorful gem that reflected the 1970s college town counterculture from which it emerged. An unofficial slogan was “Stay grateful, eat bread, play the Dead.”
Locals recall the Sub Shop as a colorful gem that reflected the 1970s college town counterculture from which it emerged. An unofficial slogan was “Stay grateful, eat bread, play the Dead.”
University of Missouri economics professor Peter Mueser said it was sad to see the institution, which he frequented about once a week for the past few years, disappear.
“It’s been a fixture in Columbia for many years, (and) a lot of people thought it was the best place to get a sub,” Mueser said.
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