One of the best and worst things about Charlottesville is that it’s a small town. This is a dichotomy that I have long struggled with: On the one hand, I delight in knowing a good piece of gossip about the random person sitting next to me at the bar; on the other hand, I cringe at the fact that he might well know an unsavory thing or two about me as well.
For precisely these reasons, this town has long been ripe for an online gossip repository and (I think) that’s the hole cVillain is trying to fill. My own small-mindedness, however, led me to believe—or hope—that this site would be about my definition of what constitutes good gossip: sex, sex and more sex. This, apparently, is not what makes cVillain tick.
The site is newsy and, with regular restaurant reviews and calendar events, seems aimed a bit more at a Charlottesville newcomer or transplant than a native like myself (and yes, I do say that with a dose of pride in my voice). It’s less nerdy than Cvillenews, but far less gossipy than an idle conversation with your girlfriend. There’s no sex, but there is a lot of local news and news media commentary. If you want to know the latest shoutout Charlottesville got in the national media, cVillain is probably a good place to start.
Really, "cVillain" is something of a misnomer. Between raving about C&O and the inexplicably intense advertising campaign cVillain ran for the Artini party, cVillain is hardly the "villain" in the story of Charlottesville. But maybe we don’t need one. Maybe villainy is better left to idle ears in dark bars.