In March, a team from the City of Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) began to look for the most effective way to overhaul the city’s public housing stock.
In March, a team from the City of Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) began to look for the most effective way to overhaul the city’s public housing stock.
When reports of the death of a homeless man at the Coal Tower last Saturday night began circulating in the homeless community, the blame game started. As the story was told, the man was allegedly turned away from PACEM, a seasonal night shelter, for being drunk and later died of exposure, alone. Reports of his […]
During his 30 years as owner and manager of The Tavern, Shelly Gordon served three types of people at his lodge-style, UVA-bedazzled diner: students, tourists, and townspeople
More than one year after a suicide prompted workplace bullying allegations and an internal investigation, UVA announced last week that the Virginia Quarterly Review had hired a new publisher and deputy editor
Support grew one cupcake sale at a time, and it culminated in a reworded Bob Dylan song in a Crozet gymnasium
To paraphrase a line from The Producers, Christmas came early to Live Arts this year, and guess who they stuffed in our stocking? Adolf Hitler! This holiday season, Live Art’s production of the wryly-humored musical by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan gives the gift of gut-splitting laughter. The Producers is deftly directed by Live Arts […]
(Photo by Jack Looney) As I walked through the crowd at Virginia’s Scott Stadium with basketball player Assane Sene, the reactions were mixed. Some football fans were so engrossed in their food purchases that they managed to ignore the 7′ tall man in sweats gliding through their midst. Others, like the two young girls trying […]
On Thursday, December 8, the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement (JADE) Task Force executed two search warrants on residences in Greene and Buckingham counties. The operation, conducted Thursday evening, netted more than 100 pounds of processed marijuana, roughly 300 grams of powder cocaine, and four handguns, and led to the arrest of Buckingham County resident Paul […]
Kay Jefferies knew her father for more than 60 years, and his signature for nearly as long.
Construction of the Meadow Creek Parkway (MCP) has receded like a mirage for decades, as lawsuits held up the road that cuts through McIntire Park. While it may still take years for construction to begin on the city’s two portions, the Albemarle County section of the two-mile road was completed on October 13, one day […]