If change is in the air at the McIntire Recycling Center on McIntire Road, you’d never know it in the days just after Labor Day weekend. Cars line the parking lot, as locals young and old carry bags of hand-sorted recyclables around the property, and drop them into segregated bins of plastics, metals and various […]
If change is in the air at the McIntire Recycling Center on McIntire Road, you’d never know it in the days just after Labor Day weekend. Cars line the parking lot, as locals young and old carry bags of hand-sorted recyclables around the property, and drop them into segregated bins of plastics, metals and various […]
On the program for this year’s Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival is both old-guard classical work
During her first song Wednesday night at the John Paul Jones Arena, “Dance in the Dark,”
Plans for the Winter 2010 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review were in place by April, around the time editor Ted Genoways received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project on American poet Walt Whitman and the Civil War. While Genoways was on leave, two organizers of the annual LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph—co-founder Nick Nichols […]
On September 1, Minor Family Hotels, LLC—which owns the Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall and is overseen by CEO Halsey Minor—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal bankruptcy court in Lynchburg. Halsey Minor says his company’s Chapter 11 filing will expedite litigation surrounding the stalled Landmark Hotel and help him see the project […]
We’d like to kick off this edition of the Odd Dominion by offering our most sincere congratulations to Justice Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser, who was recently elected to serve as chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court. This marks the first time a woman has held the post, and follows the equally historic tenure of […]
Two days after he offered to withdraw his third-party bid for the Fifth District Congressional seat, Jeffrey Clark—who launched his campaign when a GOP primary selected Virginia Senator Robert Hurt as the Republican opposition to Democrat Tom Perriello—has his game face on again. Jeffrey Clark, independent candidate for Virginia’s Fifth District Congressional seat, wrote in […]
In tough economic times, we often turn inwards for answers to our elusive happiness, for happiness is a big-ticket issue. Psychiatrists sell it by the bottle, clergymen offer it in the hereafter and stock brokers dangle it like a carrot in the form of tempered retirement funds. There’s that old bit of wisdom that says, […]
On September 1, Minor Family Hotels, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy