In his own words, George Sampson was “the kid in your high school that brought rock and roll to your dance.” Sampson also brought dancers, musicians and street performers to New York City’s Lincoln Center for three summers from 1983 to 1985, and, as part of UVA’s capital campaign during the ’90s, worked as a […]
Subduction is a meeting of two tectonic platesâone slips beneath the other towards Earth’s mantle while the other rises above. This force gives rise to land masses including the Lesser Antilles, a group of islands in the Carribbean where Greg Kelly first met Zack Worrell in 2003 during an engagement party for mutual friends.
cd Don’t be surprised when Paul Curreri lurches at you like a Southern gothic balladeer, a red-handed Nick Cave character, on “Mantra,” the first track on The Velvet Rut. Named for the comfortable clutches that Charlottesville wraps residents in, Curreri’s new record is certainly one of comfort and routine—The Velvet Rut includes contributions from and […]
The Lilith Fair of literature, the Coachella of covers, the Woodstock of words (too much?) is upon our city and, with hundreds of thousands of pages published among them, the 300 or so guests on hand for the event have a lot of knowledge to drop for bookworms and brainiacs of all ages. The problem […]
With construction drawing to a close on the $11 million City Transportation Center, the Downtown Mall will be a quiet place for a few weeks. However, the sounds of silence will come to a close on April 19 with the first concert of the Charlottesville Pavilion’s 2007 season. The first acts of the 2007 Budweiser […]
A week after their annual Valentine’s Day show, Devon Sproule and Paul Curreri sit side-by-side at Café Cubano, looking mostly at each other while they speak with me about
There are 156 miles of roads in Charlottesville. Add about 87,000 licensed drivers to those twists and turns-housands of moving parts in a small spaceâphysics (and common sense) tells you that nothing good is going to come of it.
Red Light: Stop! After trial runs in Northern Virginia and Virginia Beach, “photo-red” technology—a system of cameras designed to snag pictures of red light runners—seems poised to make drivers around the state think twice about arriving at busy intersections “fashionably late.” Virginia’s House of Delegates approved a preliminary version of the legislation on February 5 […]
The Intelligent Transportation System Center is the strangest room of the Public Works building on Fourth Street NW. The exterior of the building suggests no particular purpose; same goes for the beige interior. Moreover, the ITSC is dark, the only sources of light coming from two walls holding eight monitors, each portraying a city intersection, […]
Charlottesville registered no traffic fatalities in 2006, but eight people died on Albemarle County roads. The ages of those killed stretch from 17 to 84, but in five of these cases, the passenger killed was under 24. A few of the accidents yielded no proof of cause, but analyses of tire marks, car positions and […]