Some 400 people gathered on Tuesday, September 21 to celebrate John Kluge, the self-made billionaire who made a home in Albemarle and died on September 7. In a 85-minute ceremony at Monticello Memorial Gardens, Jon Kabat-Zinn, the world-renowned mindfulness teacher, and poet Jonathan Paul Walton, one of hundreds of beneficiaries of Kluge’s $400 million […]
Some 400 people gathered on Tuesday, September 21 to celebrate John Kluge, the self-made billionaire who made a home in Albemarle and died on September 7. In a 85-minute ceremony at Monticello Memorial Gardens, Jon Kabat-Zinn, the world-renowned mindfulness teacher, and poet Jonathan Paul Walton, one of hundreds of beneficiaries of Kluge’s $400 million […]
Among the questions unanswered in the wake of the suicide of Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of the University of Virginia’s critically acclaimed Virginia Quarterly Review, is this one: What is it like to share an office with Ted Genoways? ; Within days of Morrissey’s July 30 death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, anonymous critics […]
Biscuit Run is still a long way off from opening as a state park—if the stars align, no earlier than 2014—but officials in Richmond are exploring the option of allowing the currently homeless Albemarle County Fair to operate on the site. Funnel cakes at Biscuit Run? “The location is great, the accessibility to major roads […]
If college students were given the chance to design and teach their own classes, what would they pick to study? Judging by this semester’s student-initiated courses program at UVA, the bulk of their curriculum might be TV shows. "The Daily Show" But we’re not talking about MTV reality shows or “Lost” reruns. Rather, students who […]
When our illustrious ex-governor (and current head of the Democratic National Committee) Tim Kaine recently appeared on “The Daily Show,” he was probably hoping for 15 minutes of jocular banter and a few pointed jabs from the left-leaning Jon Stewart. What he got instead was the kind of intense grilling that the acerbic host […]
Abortion, legal since 1973, is the most common surgical procedure that women get, and one-third of all American women have had one
At first glance, Satch Huizenga seems like a guy who’d be more at home hosting a TV show about fishing and trapping than a man in charge of the city’s best-known theater organization, which, at 20 years of age, has become, despite its best efforts to stay on the edge, an institution, capital I, of […]
Residents of the Willoughby subdivision were invoiced in August for dues to a homeowners association that many did not know existed.
The walls are alive at The Bridge this month, colonized by forms from Suzanna Fields, J.T. Kirkland and Sean Lundgren crafted specifically to meld with the venue’s sparse main room. Their conceptual creations demand a sturdy attention span, but look closely and your patience will be rewarded. At one end, Richmond’s Fields coated the drywall […]
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival’s September 16 show at the Jefferson Theater took on the difficult task of bringing classical music down from the ivory tower, and into the iPod-primed ears of today. Clarinetist Matthew Hunt, who had brought the audience to its feet earlier in the festival with his performance of Steve Reich’s Counterpoint […]