Vinegar Hill Magazine

09/24/2025

🎉 Exciting News!

CIM partners Charlottesville Tomorrow, In My Humble Opinion Radio Show, and Vinegar Hill Magazine have been nominated for “Collaboration of the Year” at the 2025 LION Sustainability Awards. 🏆

This recognition highlights the power of working together to strengthen journalistic impact, financial health, and operational resilience — values at the heart of sustainable, community-driven news.

👏🏾 Congratulations to every team member and partner involved in this important work. Your dedication shows how collaboration builds stronger stories and stronger communities.

👉🏾 Learn more about the nomination and awards at the link in our bio.

09/19/2025

🌟 We’re proud to share that Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Andrea Copeland has been named an honoree for Virginia Business Magazine’s 2025 Women in Leadership Award!

This prestigious recognition celebrates top women executives for their professional accomplishments, civic engagement, mentorship, and breaking glass ceilings.

Congratulations, Andrea, on this well-deserved honor! ✨

Read more on the Vinegar Hill Magazine website.

08/27/2025

Check out the latest episode of In Our Humble Opinion .
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Tune in to 101.3 Jamz every Sunday from 12 PM to 3 PM for “In My Humble Opinion” and subscribe to listen to IMHO on your favorite platform.

08/22/2025

🏆 Here are all of the winners of the 2025 Best in Black Cville Awards!

As a key part of Soul of Cville Festival Week, this year’s awards celebrated the vibrant heart of Charlottesville’s Black culture, recognizing the people, places, and powerhouses shaping the city with brilliance and purpose.

Congratulations to every winner and nominee. 👏🏾 You put Black excellence on full display and showed the power of community, creativity, and impact.

See the full list and highlights 👉🏾

As a key part of the Soul of Cville Festival Week (August 10–17), the 2025 Best In Black Cville Awards celebrated the vibrant heart of the city’s Black culture on […]

08/22/2025

As a key part of the Soul of Cville Festival Week (August 10–17), the 2025 Best In Black Cville Awards celebrated the vibrant heart of the city’s Black culture on […]

08/05/2025

Charlottesville, the time is fast approaching, the week-long 5th annual Soul Of Cville is happening August 10 -17th, 2025!!

We don’t deserve to be content; we deserve to be happy, and each of these events will do that. This event is a mirror held up to Black brilliance in Charlottesville, reflecting black joy, power, and presence.

📷 JBella Photography

Click the link to learn more about the events happening throughout the week.

🔗 vinegarhillmagazine.com/soul-of-cville-2025-unapologetically-us

07/29/2025

Learn about the influential legacy that Upward Bound has given to many Charlottesville and surrounding county students.

This is a unique and special account from Marquan Jones, a 2019 graduate of UVA’s Upward Bound program and a 2024 graduate of Virginia Military Institute. He recounts his time at UVA and his experience with Upward Bound and how it not only shaped his life but also the lives around him.

We are all saddened that such a great program is coming to an end.

Read and learn more about Marquan’s experience on our website.
🔗 vinegarhillmagazine.com/a-legacy-of-uplift-reflecting-on-uvas-upward-bound-program

07/22/2025

Chris Gaither isn’t just breaking barriers in the wine industry; he’s pouring knowledge, accessibility, and style into every glass.🍷 From sommelier to educator, he’s changing the game for wine lovers everywhere, including Charlottesville.

✨ Shift your perspective on what it means to know wine and remember,
“You don’t have to be a wine specialist to appreciate wine,” says Gaither

👉 Tap the link to read Chris’s story and how he’s bringing the knowledge of wine to the masses.

🔗 www.stayfreshmag.com/blog-2-1/chris-gaither-makes-wine-accessible-to-the-masses

📸 Photo credit: Maggie Mai

07/15/2025

The Homesteader, Nivek Anderson-Brown, discusses her journey from city dweller to farm-to-kitchen homesteader. She also shows how we, as a community, can start homesteading. She practices traditions that have been passed down in many American families for generations and utilizes 21st-century technologies to reintroduce them to worldwide audiences. 🪴 🍇

Read more about Nivek's story in Stay Fresh Magazine.

🔗 www.stayfreshmag.com/blog-2-1/nivek-anderson-brown-teaches-self-reliance-through-homesteading-by-katrina-l-spencer

02/21/2025

Are we failing our youth? Vinegar Hill Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Sonia Montalvo, believes so. In her thought-provoking new article, she calls on us to stop blaming young people and start taking responsibility for the world we've created. Sonia examines the challenges they face, from educational inequities to the digital landscape, and offers a powerful call to action. Read her full piece at vinegarhillmagazine.com and join the conversation.