Stringing students along
Charlottesville High School Orchestra conductor Laura Thomas hands me a photo and immediately begins to identify her former students. “There’s Tim Summers. And there’s Caroline Buckman.”
Hello, Charlottesburgh!
Soon, every restaurant in town will seat patrons on stacks of Marshall amps, and replace all silverware with guitar picks. Arenas in town will host the same epic acts as cities like Detroit and Los Angeles. 2006 made our little city a mandatory stop for the powerhouses of rock ’n’ roll. Next year, watch as […]
How to arrest a hooker on Cherry Avenue
When officer Joe Brown returned to work at the Charlottesville Police Department after several weeks off, Sergeant Marc Brake noticed a change in the man’s appearance. Brown “had grown a beard, looked kinda scraggly,” according to Brake. Officer Brown’s appearance was a contrast to his clean, efficient skills: “A lot of tactical experience, experience as […]
Man files suit against UVA Med Center
After two years of consideration, 60-year-old Wilbert Johnson filed a suit against the UVA Medical Center on November 7 at the U.S. District Court in Charlottesville. Johnson, a resident of Gordonsville, seeks $350,000 in damages from the medical center after he was discharged without “adequate evaluation,” following a fall that he took in his home […]
Rutherford Institute backs chaplain’s suit
Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, disobeyed orders when he appeared in uniform at a Washington, D.C. protest on March 30 and offered a prayer “in Jesus’ name.” Klingenschmitt was court marshalled on September 14, and received a suspended fine and a reprimand. “Three little words,” says John Whitehead of Charlottesville’s Rutherford […]
Tucker Carlson tapes at UVA
MSNBC anchor Tucker Carlson asked a favor of the crowd gathered at the Rotunda for a live taping of his show “Tucker” on Tuesday, October 24: “Don\’t shout obscenities.” In the end, only Carlson broke the language rule.
Statues and the city
On Thursday, October 26, UVA anthropology Professor and architectural history Chairman Dell Upton spoke with a group of students, faculty and civilians about how the architecture of civil rights memorials in the South speaks to a city, and how the memorials may affect the future.
Upton stuck to memorials based on the summer of 1964, or “Freedom Summer,” a peak year in voter registration drives and nonviolent protests by African Americans.
Red dirt alert!
Kroger spokesman Carl York admits that the giant fence around the Barracks Road Shopping Center grocery is a bit unsightly, but necessary.
Bad Travel Agent sentenced
A travel agent who put one over on customers wanting to tour the Land Down Under was sentenced October 17 to three years and six months in prison, three years probation, and a restitution payment for making unauthorized credit card transactions.
10 years for a trash can
For $20 in damage to a trash receptacle, Curtis J. Hill received a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years for two counts of “attempting to destroy by fire.” Hill’s sentence came after a final attempt to withdraw a guilty plea was denied by Judge Norman K. Moon on October 18 at the U.S. District Court. […]