If you are feeling a little more naughty than nice this Christmas season, The Santaland Diaries may be the perfect stuff for your stocking. In the show, a holiday tradition at Staunton’s American Shakespeare Center, seasoned Shakespearean actor Rick Blunt relives humorist David Sedaris’ story about his days as a 30-something man employed as one […]
If you are feeling a little more naughty than nice this Christmas season, The Santaland Diaries may be the perfect stuff for your stocking. In the show, a holiday tradition at Staunton’s American Shakespeare Center, seasoned Shakespearean actor Rick Blunt relives humorist David Sedaris’ story about his days as a 30-something man employed as one […]
Usually, the first few weeks after an election are a time of quiet contemplation. But occasionally, the grandstanding and partisan rancor continue unabated
Since September, the former district director for one-term U.S. Congressman Tom Perriello has been busy with his plan to generate $30 million in new business to push low-wealth families to self-sufficiency
To our knowledge, no shoppers were harmed during Charlottesville’s Black Friday, the annual retail revel that follows Thanksgiving in most places that have a cash register
Covering Occupy Charlottesville is like trying to catch an eel barehanded. You think you have a good grip, but it keeps slipping away.
From where he stands on the Albemarle High School football stadium bleachers, band director Greg Thomas has a good view of about 80 teenage musicians. Gathered in a haphazard semicircle on the track below, the Marching Patriots have just completed their final run-through of “Pursuing Red,” a show they first clumsily attempted at the beginning […]
The story of Matt Nelson’s incredible comeback begins with him going head-to-head with his twin brother Nick. He hopes it ends with the two of them standing back-to-back on the winners’ podium this spring as NCAA champions.
Inmates at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia will soon be able to earn a degree from behind bars.
In the two months since the first organizers occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City to protest national economic inequality, similar encampments sprung up throughout the country, each of them claiming public space as a way to spread their messages. Since cities around the nation began breaking up these groups, the movement is facing the […]
A $3.5 million lawsuit filed by the Forest Lakes Community Association (FLCA) and the Hollymead Citizens Association against some of Albemarle County’s most prominent developers may grow in scope and cost