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Since Halloween is right around the corner, we thought it might be a good time to revisit one of the cardinal rules of politics

Two years ago, the political current moved with the Democracts, and Perriello swam with Mark Warner and Barack Obama. This year, he must fight a national tide sweeping the GOP’s direction with no bigger fish to lure Virginia voters.

 The black bean and brown rice taco that chef Martha Stafford presented to the School Community Nutrition Committee (SCNC) at Charlottesville High School last Wednesday night was anything but ordinary. The black beans were prepared with cumin, oregano and bay leaves. Onions and green bell peppers, inexpensive and in season, were sautéed, and garlic, tomato […]

The U.S. 250 Bypass and McIntire Road interchange, part of the controversial Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP)

After years of designs and redesigns, construction of architect Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse project seems imminent.

Minutes before 9pm on October 17, 2009, somewhere between the entrance to the John Paul Jones Arena and the Copeley Road bridge where she was last spotted

 Dianna Poe pulls up to the Riverside Lunch parking lot on a rainy Monday night in a white Volvo station wagon. She waves and parks. Five kids, between the ages of 10 and 17, spill out of the car and head into the burger joint on High Street. Nearly every other week, Poe takes a […]

Astronomers recently discovered a small solar system that could support life some 20 light years away from earth. I wonder if, in the glare of their own sun, some distant, sentient creatures are also flummoxed by loneliness and failure. In UVA’s impressive production of The Glass Menagerie, these possibilities come to mind. Below a dusky […]

Remember when you used to play “opposite day” as a kid? You don’t? O.K., what about Kris Kross, those early ’90s pre-teen rappers who wore their clothes backwards—surely you remember them? No? All right, fine, whatever. The point we’re trying to make is that there are times, especially in the topsy-turvy world of politics, when […]

Independent, local hospital merges with larger not-for-profit in hopes of constraining costs, expanding services.