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 […]
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 […]
“I’m safe. I’m not okay, but I’m safe.” I couldn’t respond in any other way to the hundreds of phone calls, text messages, e-mails and Facebook posts asking me how I was doing. It was April 16, 2007, a day that Virginia Tech and the rest of the world will never forget, the day Seung-Hui […]
O.K., we’ll admit it: With the benefit of hindsight, Virginia’s 2009 gubernatorial race was a complete and total snooze, despite our best efforts to make it seem exciting.
Is Thomas Jefferson’s life as a slave owner a personal contradiction that tarnishes his political and moral legacy, or is it more correct to view his plantation life as a reflection of the American social materiel from which he formulated his much-vaunted ideals?
West Main Street links the University of Virginia to the city’s Downtown Mall and surrounding businesses, and it can be argued that it also connects the city’s past with its future.
Last week, police moved to break up Occupy encampments in Los Angeles and Philadelphia and arrested and charged hundreds of occupiers.
In June, when Charlottesville City Council unanimously approved its first Section 3 Policy, Vice Mayor Holly Edwards touted the plan as a job-creation effort that was a long time coming
The local vote that set the dormant Western Bypass in motion dealt what many residents and some supervisors consider to be the greatest blow to open government practices in Albemarle County in years
Deathtrap is a theatrical version of an M.C. Escher woodcut, a play within a play with seemingly endless twists and turns that mock the concept of theatrical plot and device. When pulled off, the audience is engaged, if not dizzied, by the wonderment of the tension between the script of the play and its on-stage […]