Last Year's Dangerous Roads: A Road Map
The Area’s Most Dangerous Roads in 2006:Pan and zoom the map using the controls in the upper left.Click on a "crash" icon for accident information. Read the story, get the details: Crash Into Me
Bike advocates take to the streets
Alia Anderson’s most recent accident pitched her off the bicycle she uses to travel from her home on Cherry Avenue to the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT)
Hard habit to break
Money from Philip Morris has long gone down smoothly for UVA: Past gifts totaling $2.3 million benefited everything
Jeff Tweedy, with Tin Cup Prophette
music Halfway through their sleek, glacial opening set, Tin Cup Prophette’s Bjork-channeling lead singer offered her thanks to Jeff Tweedy, frontman for the rock group Wilco. “It’s great when super-successful artists can bring ‘risks’ on tour,” she said before introducing another tune mired in the looped plucks of a violin. But what makes a risk? […]
29N fire station breaks ground
After mutual words of thanks between some County Supervisors and the County’s Department of Fire Rescue, the group of men gathered behind the podium on Lonesome Pine Lane picked up their shovels—each labeled with a sharp “Fire Rescue” logo—and dug into the Hollymead ground. By next fall, Lonesome Pine Lane will be replaced by an […]
Pop goes The Dreamers
The Dreamers are in day two of their five-day recording session at the Music Resource Center(www.musicresourcecenter.org) on Ridge Street. The mixing room is packed with bodies: Three UVA students share a sofa with two sixth graders from Walker Middle School, singer Heather Maxwell stands beside the mixing board with MRC Outreach Coordinator Damani Harrison. All […]
George Strait, with Ronnie Milsap, and Taylor Swift
music “Anything but country” is a common sentiment among music snobs, as in “I love Radiohead and the Wu-Tang Clan…really, anything but country.” In Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman hogties this statement—fans of most music genres can find something to appreciate in songs about trucks and dogs. But Klosterman never addresses the other […]
Beat reporting at University heart center
Peter Jump, director of public relations for the UVA Health System, is eager to share some numbers from the UVA Heart and Vascular (H&V) Center (www.healthsystem.virginia.edu). This is why. Spurred by a study of 365 hospitals by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sources from The New York Times to USA Today published […]
On the sixth day: Man rests, loses job
When Randy White began work as a medical supply clerk at the UVA Medical Center (www.virginia.edu/hlth.html) in May of 2005, he was asked by a supervisor to work one weekend per month. White explained to his supervisor that he is a Seventh-day Adventist and does not work from dusk on Friday to dusk on Saturday. […]
Blackout at the theater
Bob Chapel spent the entirety of last year on sabbatical: three weeks teaching at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow, directing The Laramie Project at the University of Michigan, and spending a semester as artist in residence at the University of Tasmania.