The double doors of an A-frame barn open to an empty hall ending in a wall of windows. The intervening space is bathed in gentle southeastern morning light. The view looks northwest toward the forested backside of Carter Mountain. Charlottesville’s there somewhere, but it’s hidden behind blue mountains that overlap in rising layers. Red bud, […]
Kim Tingley wants to spark local progressives Developer hopes to build a career in city politics Clement “Kim” Tingley wants to fit into Charlottesville politics, and it’s a tight squeeze. Sometimes it seems like any would-be officeholder must win favor from a coterie of bigwigs with hippie values and piles of money. When the ultimate […]
Tuesday, May 3 We’ll miss you. Not. Classes ended today at UVA, which could only mean that the area’s supply of NoDoz was rapidly depleted as studying for finals gets underway immediately. For 5,100 seniors and graduate students, the next big date is Sunday, May 22, graduation day. Following that auspicious occasion, look out for […]
Tuesday, April 26 County’s McKeel aims for 12 years on School Board Diantha McKeel announced her candidacy for the Albemarle County School Board today. Jim Kennan introduced her on the steps of the County Office Building by saying if the School Board were graded, McKeel would earn straight As. If re-elected for a third four-year […]
Angst and network news go together like—oh, like Simon and Garfunkel, whose popularity peaked around the same time that Walter Cron-kite was signing off with the comforting fiction “that’s the way it is.” For more than a quarter of a century, the audience for the three evening network newscasts has been both shrinking and aging, […]
Tuesday, April 19 Taxes the focus of Kaine’s town hall meeting here Earlysville resident Ann Mallek says she’s seen it happen many times in her neighborhood. “People living in little farmhouses are suddenly surrounded by $800,000 homes,” she says, “their assessments go up through no fault of their own.” Real estate taxes are a major […]
A recent online survey showed that more than one-third of us think that once we die, we end up in some kind of merit-based afterlife, like Heaven or Hell. Another 29 percent figure we go nowhere—we’re just dead. Well, yes and no. No matter where you think you’ll end up in the long run, you’re […]
Tuesday, April 12 Next time, take the stairs Downtown pedestrians got a little excitement today, and gratefully avoided injury, when Cheryl Longnecker accidentally backed her Subaru Outback up the stairs of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Longnecker was attempting to parallel park her car on Market Street when her right foot, which was covered by a […]
Hey Ace: I just noticed that the crosswalks from the Emmet/Ivy intersection all the way to Jefferson Park Avenue are green and white instead of the customary black and white zebra crossing. I love the white/lime green combo—it really goes well with my wardrobe—but why the new style?—J. Crewe Oh dahling, didn’t you know? Save […]
“Freedom of expression cannot be limited without being lost.” Thomas Jefferson Robert O’Neil takes TJ’s words very seriously. As executive director of the Pantops-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, each year he oversees the awarding of Jefferson Muzzles. The search for censorship in America brings a wide swath of culture within […]