Orphaned in the midst of UVA Health System construction is a small, 0.7-acre strip of land owned by VAParc LLC. It would seem that the University would want that strip, a parking lot with 63 spaces valued at $1.3 million, to join the construction orgy all around it. Couldn’t UVA use that acreage for, say, […]
The most interesting thing about faux simplicity is that it’s anything but simple, actually requiring more trouble and expense than most decorating styles. The aesthetic isn’t based on giving up possessions but on having lots of custom closets and cabinets that conceal them from view.—Winifred Gallagher, House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live […]
Tuesday, May 29Transit proposal gets props Let’s face it: Charlottesville has a rockin’ national rep. We might not be No. 1 any longer (enter sigh of relief here), but we still lead among American cities. Today’s USA Today lauds the city’s proposal to cut out bus fares as a way of upping ridership on public […]
The smash-and-grab job at Union Bank and Trust on Friday, June 1, came courtesy of members of the city police department. At roughly 9am, a city employee called the city police after watching 38-year-old Jeffrey Alan Adams (below)—a resident of Fredericksburg—enter the bank and lock it from the inside (“They have a deadbolt situation,” explained […]
It won’t be a long haul to the City Market. On May 31, children helped break ground on an “urban farm” in the field beside Friendship Court, the housing complex just to the south of the Downtown Mall. The Urban Agriculture Project, funded by the Blue Moon Fund, is hoping to get local organic food […]
Wage clean air with the peace lily and other houseplants. Places in a planned utopiaBelvedere development will sell a green vision Can you create a sustainable community nearly out of thin air? Local development company Stonehaus is betting it can. Its 675-unit Belvedere development broke ground on May 10, beginning a five- to six-year buildout […]
Due to a reporting error in “Where the money isn’t,” May 22, 2007, we incorrectly stated that The Paramount Theater’s auditorium was sponsored by Hunter J. Smith. It is the Paramount’s ballroom that is named after Hunter J. Smith. The auditorium itself is not named.
Tuesday, May 22Grisham on “Dateline NBC” John Grisham, famous local author and recent UVA commencement speaker, appeared on “Dateline NBC” tonight to discuss his recent book, The Innocent Man. Grisham’s first nonfiction book tells the tale of Ronald Keith Williamson, former minor league baseball hopeful and resident of Ada, Oklahoma, who was wrongfully accused of […]
There is a cacophony of music in Charlottesville: At any given moment during any given day,
a DJ is setting a needle into the vinyl grooves of a scratched Marvin Gaye record or a band is
Tuesday, May 15TEC hittin’ the beach Need more proof that defense contracting is big local business? The Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor has awarded a $30 million defense contract to TEC Inc. Joint Venture, based in Charlottesville, MSN Money reports. The contract is for “environmental planning to support strategic initiatives” in Guam, Hawaii, […]