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At Saturday night’s concert by Sarah White and the Pearls at the Jefferson Theater, Sarah White herself referred to the show as the “Neko Case Pity Party.”

 The epic staring contest between UVA and Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli will continue for at least a few more days. Despite an August 20 hearing in Albemarle County Circuit Court over whether UVA must comply with a civil investigative demand for a former climate professor’s research and e-mails, Judge Paul M. Peatross gave himself a […]

 A herd of new neighbors may soon be grazing in the city’s backyards. At its August 16 meeting, City Council supported an amendment to an ordinance that would allow miniature goats within city limits.  Won’t you be my neighbor? If City Council passes an amended ordinance on September 7, you can house three of these […]

 Thanks to actions last week by Charlottesville City Council and the Board of Architectural Review (BAR), architect Bill Atwood’s Waterhouse project has quickly thawed from glacier to geyser. One day after council unanimously signed off on its first resolution for a tax increment financing rebate—don’t worry, we’ll explain it in the third paragraph—the BAR approved […]

 For both fans and foes of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s (RWSA) 50-year Community Water Supply Plan, glasses will remain half-full or half-empty until expansion studies of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and Lower Ragged Mountain Dam are completed. On Friday, the RWSA released a review of engineering firm Gannett Fleming’s 2004 water demand analysis, […]

If you walk through the doors of the ABC store on West Main Street with fantasies of mojitos and margaritas watering your mouth, you’ll find your buzz is soon killed. The store has more in common with the sterile confines of a dentist’s office than a tropical paradise. Sure, there are random glimmers of personality: […]

Food & Drink intro video by Okay Yellow RESTAURANT Mas Runner-up: C&O Restaurant O.K., Mas-obsessed reader, we get it. Choosing Mas for nearly every category —including Best Coffeehouse and, inexplicably, Live DJ—is not what we’d call a subtle nod to your favorite restaurant. Luckily, you’re not alone in your fanatical affection for the Belmont tapas […]

Biscuit Run, now slated to become a state park! Watching Biscuit Run make the inconceivable switcheroo from 3,100-unit development to 1,200-acre state park was a bit like watching magician David Copperfield disappear the Statue of Liberty. Eight months later, and some of us are still looking for the magic wands, trapdoors and ropes that the […]

Retail intro video by Okay Yellow JEWELRY STORE Angelo Runner-up: Andrew Minton Jewelers We suspect he stays on top year after year not simply because jewelry artist Lee Marraccini designs beautiful bling, but because he and his wife, Pam, run more than a jewelry store. They run a jewelry gallery. Next to cases of Lee’s […]

Local gifted education teacher John Hunter spent the end of July at the annual EduStat conference, where he was a featured speaker alongside a former chief learning officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and the co-founder of JetBlue Airways. By the following week, the subject of local filmmaker Chris Farina’s documentary World Peace…and Other Fourth […]