There’s that moment, right around 11:55pm on every December 31, when the partner-deficient, which of course does not include either Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt, start to panic. In five minutes that gaudy twinkling ball will drop in Times Square, people will start singing that stupid song they don’t really know, and you’re supposed to […]
As the year draws to a close, at C-VILLE we find ourselves with a queasy feeling. At first we just thought someone spiked our egg-nog, but no. Our sick feeling is something media types know as a “news hangover.” We’ve spent the past year covering the absurdity, scandal, crime and shameless self-promotion that goes on […]
“There’s going to be no drama,” said Richard Collins, address-ing a crowd of about 40 people, mostly from the Little High Street neighborhood association. Collins, an expert in “environmental negotiation,” hoped for civil discussion, but that hasn’t been the tone so far between Little High Street residents and officials at Region Ten. A simple case […]
Al Weed has been doing a lot of thinking. Since November 2004, when he lost his U.S. Con-gressional bid to Fifth Dis-trict incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr., Weed has been pondering the big question: What’s wrong with the Democrats? “Politics are not like I thought they were,” says Weed. “Demo-crats think if they just tell people […]
Finally, all the broken eggs on the east end of the Downtown Mall are beginning to resemble an omelet. What looked like one big construction site outside City Hall is actually three separate projects—the Charlotte-sville Pavilion has played host to more big-time performers in the past month than the town has seen in the past […]
At first glance, there’s nothing ex-ceptional about the green house at 223 Fourth St. SW. In fact, it looks pretty shabby. The building slouches. The wood around the windows seems to be rotting. The yard is a mess—there’s a picnic table with no benches, a brown Christmas tree, a rusty folding chair sitting in a […]
Road to recovery “Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.” —André Malraux The wild monster The Toyota hatchback that Dwaine bought for $100 shuddered as it hit interstate speed. Smoke curled from the Marlboro between his fingers and slipped into the air rushing outside his […]
How did that happen? Every time you sign the check for your water bill, you’re paying the price for years of misadventures in water supply planning. Our water rates include money for two water expansion plans that have since been flushed, even though the debts remain. Now the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority is under […]
Our leaders love to trumpet Charlottesville’s progressive spirit and the world-class quality of its city life. The sales pitch rings hollow in Westhaven, though, where ambitious plans for “urban renewal” have literally fallen apart. Now the Housing Authority hopes to overcome 20 years of neglect with a new version of urban renewal. But can yuppies […]
The intersection of Seminole Trail and Rio Road 2004 crashes: 155 Statistically speaking, the four blocks of Seminole Trail that include the Rio Road intersection constitute the most dangerous stretch of road in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Not only do cars veer across multiple lanes to hit the entrances of several popular shopping centers, but […]