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The fate of the parking lot at the Amtrak train station on West Main Street may be at a turning point.

The band, now seven strong with Tim Reynolds on guitar and a horn section, walked slowly onstage bathed in blue light to screams that washed over them for seven minutes before they played a note.

Just before President Obama took the stage at the Charlottesville Pavilion on October 29, Congressman Tom Perriello delivered a well-honed stump speech about successes from his first (and only) term. Among these was bringing electric vehicle (EV) tech jobs to Charlottesville. The crowd responded with rapturous applause. Even if Perriello never spelled out exactly to […]

Virginia continues to put the swing into "swing state"

Progress on the much-debated water supply plan continues at a drip’s pace, but in the past couple of weeks, Mayor Dave Norris has gotten into hot water for a meeting he had with the director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), David Paylor, in late October.  In late October, Norris met with the […]

We last left the Meadowcreek Parkway saga with construction underway, the county detour open, and the Federal Highway Administration ruling that the Meadowcreek Parkway would not have a considerable impact on the environment. What’s next for the 43-year-old project? The county portion of the Meadowcreek Parkway opened last month and no accidents or tickets have […]

Halsey Minor’s financial woes are once again back in the headlines. 

Sales have tripled at the City Market in the past decade and more growth is expected.

When I first encountered the musical energy that would become 6 Day Bender’s 2008 self-titled debut, the boys were perched atop a booth at the Virginian on a lazy fall night, strumming their acoustic guitars and crooning for anyone within earshot. Barely a few steps off of Mr. Jefferson’s turf, from where frontmen Clayton Avent […]

At first glance, the landmark 25th edition of Algonquin’s venerable New Stories From the South appears to be alphabetically arranged. It starts off with newcomer Adam Atlas and then moves on to old-timer Rick Bass, who led off 2007’s A-to-Z version—but then it jumps down the alphabet to Brad Watson, who has not only the […]