Since its birth on September 5, 1882, Labor Day has provided every workingman and woman at least three crucial with things: an excuse for a picnic; a chance to sit in shore-related traffic; and an occasion to complain about work. For the al frescolunching and OBX traveling this Labor Day, you’re on your own. But […]
Room for improvement The City and County thump for tourists, but where will they stay? On August 6, officials from the City, County and Virginia Department of Transportation broke ground on the long-awaited Court Square renovation project, designed to attract tourists to the 150-year-old historic area north of the Downtown Mall. Not discussed that morning […]
It’s a small world The cute Mini Cooper becomes Charlottesville’s pet car du jour It looks at you with the sad eyes of a puppy, its side mirrors like stubby ears yearning to be stroked. It lets out a sigh when you fire the ignition, and whistles as you back out. And you’re hooked. So […]
Fall. The leaves change colors. The sleeves get longer. And enduring sad girls with guitars replaces tubing on the James as the recreational activity of choice. The new cultural season is almost here, and C-VILLE has selected the best bets in music, art, stage, film and more to keep you busy from now until December. […]
Be afraid, be very afraid County police flex the military metaphor Albemarle County Police Sergeant Peter Mainzer’s eyes lit up as he gazed on the black weapons issued to the department’s SWAT team––the .40-caliber submachine gun, the heavy bullet-proof vests, gas masks purchased with a Federal Homeland Defense grant. “Most of our operations are to […]
Hazardous waist Super-sizes and not-so-super exercises have born one nation under lard It’s a fat, fat world. More than 60 percent of all American adults are categorized as overweight or obese. And Virginia is expanding right in line with the trend. According to the Virginia Department of Health, 36.7 percent of adult Virginians are overweight […]
Sounds of silence Hiding from cars and John Ashcroft In the middle of McIntire Park, there’s a cluster of trees where you can settle into the green grass and lose yourself in the sounds of swishing leaves and chirping birds––provided you can sneak past the watchman who insists that stretch of the green space is […]
Making the green grade Local pols score on environmentalists’ report cards Call it the age of the report card. Children have to pass a standardized test to graduate from school, Top 10 lists abound for everything from all-time movies to worst hairdos of the past century, and TV shows live and die by the ratings […]
Lining up the shot Court Square Ventures brings unwatched college sports to the tube Chris Holden might have been a rock star. There’s a glimmer in his otherwise sober eyes when he remembers trying to put himself through medical school playing late-night gigs in a piano bar—the name escapes him—somewhere in downtown Richmond. “I would […]
All that separates Tina Awkard’s front lawn from a chemical graveyard is a few hundred feet and a chain link fence. Yet Awkard, who moved here with her children three months ago, wasn’t aware that the “waste and lagoon treatment center” next door is a toxic dump with a file at the Environmental Protection Agency […]