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Paul Beyer announces plans for Tom Tom Founder's Festival
Real estate developer, City Council candidate, and man about town, Paul Beyer announced last week that he and a business partner are launching the Tom Tom Founder’s Festival, a month-long creative happening focused on music, art, and innovation. The events will begin on Founder’s Day (April 13) and culminate with a three-day music festival May […]
Green Scene: This week's greenie news
Living where we do—that is, on seven acres of rocky, sloping ground that was logged a couple of decades ago—it’s clear to me that we are not even close to being in charge.
Searching for universal meaning in the George Huguely trial
During jury selection, the prosecution asked each prospective juror if he or she would feel comfortable judging someone, a question that’s harder to answer than you might think. It’s in our nature to judge others, their hair, their clothes, how good looking or smart they are, we judge and convict people for a million minor […]
Huguely Trial Blog, Day Ten: Oh, Mama, Can This Really Be the End?
We watched as the last cars of the defense team’s train went careening off the rails.
Huguely Trial Blog Day Nine: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
A morning filled with the bizarre and the inconsequential, but ending with a flashback.
Huguely Trial Blog, Day Eight: On Spectral Evidence
In actuality, only three people have seen the crime scene.
Plan to remove Belmont Bridge wins design contest
“Public spaces should be imaginative and fun,” said Brian Wimer, the Belmont resident who inspired Project Gait-way, the Belmont Bridge design competition. When asked about his opinion on the imaginative and contemporary designs, Major Satyendra Huja, with over 30 years in the city’s planning department under his belt, said he is pleased with the results […]
Understanding the first week of the George Huguely murder trial
The Charlottesville Circuit Court opens at 8:30am, but the Huguely trial usually starts at 9:30. The first hour is taken up with other business, like Thursday’s drug court. Men and women, a clear majority of them African-American, file in to meet with their court appointed attorneys and plead their cases. Judge Edward Hogshire hears updates […]
City balks on human rights commission
Over the years it could be said that Charlottesville city councils have used process to side-step tough decisions.