Given name Robert Allen Zimmerman Declan Patrick MacManus Born May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota August 25, 1954, London, England Wives 2 3 First record Bob Dylan (1962 on Columbia) My Aim Is True (1977 on Columbia) Latest record Modern Times (2006 on Sony BMG) The River in Reverse (with Allen Toussaint; 2006 on Verve Forecast) […]
Tuesday, September 11 Dig these drummers WSLS, a CBS station out of Roanoke, reports that the UVA marching band, which has only existed since 2003, already enjoys a bit of national recognition (albeit of the commercial variety): The band’s 30-member drumline is featured in a series of print ads for Yamaha instruments. Apparently this is […]
Being in a phase of life that has us looking for a high concentration of protein in a convenient form, we are drawn, naturally, to Mellow Mushroom’s Mighty Meaty Pizza. This superheroically named pie, which we order for delivery, packs everything we want: pepperoni, sausage, ground beef, ham and bacon. Yup, as far as the […]
Tuesday, September 4Wine fraud article takes shot at Jefferson Who wouldn’t love to hear Thomas Jefferson talk about politics? But what about wine? This week’s The New Yorker quotes a passage from John Quincy Adams’ diary, in which Adams remarks that Jefferson knew less about wine than he thought he did. This week’s The New […]
While Left of Center, the youngish Dem and "Dem curious" group, is no stranger to high-profile speakers, most of those profiles are on the local level—state politicians, UVA profs, Charlottesville activists.
Chef Jesse Wykle at the Inn at Court Square takes Southern cuisine to a whole new level, and rather than one dish we made a feast of samples: crispy, golden grit cakes beneath melted Stilton, roasted asparagus, Portobello mushrooms and a sprinkling of pink peppercorns—delicately balanced flavors and alluring presentation, done and done. It goes […]
Tuesday, August 28Hutto to Roanoke: No thanks The Roanoke Times chides the city’s government in an editorial today because of mixed signals city councilors apparently sent to Kirby Hutto, who runs the Charlottesville Pavilion for Red Light Management. Some Star City councilors approached Hutto and Red Light about managing a new amphitheater to be built […]
Due to a reporting error in the August 21 Restaurantarama ("The Corner of the market"), Make Sense Dining was misidentified as Mason’s Dining. Our apologies go out to the company, as well as to its regional manager, Rebecca Lehnert, who was quoted in the column.
The headline of an article in the August 28 UVA News section, "State cuts $11.4 from UVA budget," put an unintentionally positive spin on the story. While the powers that be at UVA would love to be faced with a $11 and 40 cents cut, the harsh reality, as those who read beyond the headline […]
If dollars are any indication, two of three races for the Board of Supervisors look to be tight ones, according to figures from the latest filing deadline, covering donations up to June 30.* But war chests are filling up for both donkey and elephant in the Rivanna and White Hall districts, where incumbent Republicans Ken […]