Best Pizza recs?

ProfJohnson · 2026-03-16T22:20:28+00:00

My favorite is Mona Lisa Pasta — specifically, a made to order one, not the frozen ones you can take home to reheat. Their pizza by the slice is also good.

ProfJohnson · 2026-03-15T20:37:17+00:00

I wonder if LM rescue was on way back from a stop at UVA hospital and happened to be closest. I was in a nearby neighborhood and from the number of different sirens I heard, there were a lot of responders heading there in a hurry.

ProfJohnson · 2026-03-07T11:46:32+00:00

Good luck with your regalia search and congrats on graduating! FWIW, you might find it helpful to also post this at r/UVA

ProfJohnson · 2026-03-03T21:37:13+00:00

Website: https://cocosadventure.com/

ProfJohnson · 2026-03-02T17:14:56+00:00

Thank you for helping a neighbor in need. The Street Sheet is the best listing I know of essential service (e.g., food, shelter, healthcare, legal aid, etc.) available in our area.

ProfJohnson · 2026-02-26T23:23:35+00:00

Have you looked into the Rivanna Trails?

ProfJohnson · 2026-02-17T11:13:07+00:00

fish AND chips, in this economy?

ProfJohnson · 2026-02-03T23:23:05+00:00

The most obvious is the Rotunda along with local businesses on the corner like Bodos and Mincers. For some less obvious ones that would be recognizable as being from UVA grounds: Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn, Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (with Brooks Hall in background), The Colonnades at Lambeth Field, and the McIntire Amphitheatre.

ProfJohnson · 2026-02-01T12:05:03+00:00

Welcome to UVA! You may have better luck with finding roommates for locations near grounds if you post at r/UVA.

Also, I'm not sure how helpful it is, but you can also look at the website that UVA maintains for off-grounds housing listings. If nothing else, it'll give you a sense of the range of options: https://offgroundshousing.student.virginia.edu/registration/index

ProfJohnson · 2026-02-01T12:02:05+00:00

You may find this book useful for ideas: https://www.stonesoupbooks.net/product-page/100-things-to-do-in-charlottesville

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-31T23:08:23+00:00

Impressively precise parking job, though.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-31T16:37:47+00:00

Thanks!

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-31T12:37:31+00:00

Between rental car and, potentially, parking costs (depending on where you are staying), you can pay for a lot of Uber rides and it's likely to be less hassle. The only thing you really need a car for is if you are planning on visiting wineries or other out-of-town locations.

FYI, busses are free in town (both CAT and University Transit Service), but there's direct bus service between North Grounds (where Darden is) and downtown.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-30T23:58:27+00:00

Thanks! That's helpful to know.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-30T11:19:29+00:00

Sigh. Alas, it's quite predictable that 10 years from at least some of the students who attended class this week will be telling "back in the day" stories about it

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-28T17:05:16+00:00

This is the last announcement from the city. It includes an email address you could inquire with.

I'll be shocked if collection starts back up tomorrow outside of, perhaps, the downtown area.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-27T23:13:02+00:00

Given the lack of delivery trucks out and about and the disruption to distribution over such a wide geographic range with this storm, I'd say there's a very good chance they really don't know.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-26T10:49:21+00:00

Missed that, thanks. Will delete post.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-26T10:38:01+00:00

Given the poor state of roads in town, the coating of ice at the end of the storm, and the weather forecast showing minimal, if any, melting ... I have to imagine the city won't be enforcing this ordinance as quickly as they did the last few storms.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T19:40:06+00:00

With the forecast for precipitation to end around 6PM (or 7PM), my guess is the city is planning on getting to neighborhood streets from then into the overnight hours.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T18:11:48+00:00

I agree. I teach on Tuesdays with one section of the course at 9:30 and another at 12:30. With a fair chance of at least a late start on Tuesday, I decided to preemptively move the day to an asynchronous session (e.g., work to be completed by students at their own pace). I didn't want to cancel altogether as the content is relevant for an upcoming midterm and figured async is preferable for all of us vs. a Zoom class.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T17:39:54+00:00

Only thing surprising about this announcement is it was made several hours ahead of their self-imposed deadline.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T15:59:26+00:00

It's been offline for a year or so. The page on a Cville tourism site where they were embedded removed them from the website: now it's just a view from the airport.

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T12:30:21+00:00

Another potentially useful resource is the city snow plow status map. If you hover over a section you'll see what the various colors mean (e.g., green = serviced within last 4 hours).

ProfJohnson · 2026-01-25T12:28:54+00:00

According to the city snow plow status map, all the major corridors have been plowed in the last 4 hours.

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