WTJU and new manager join forces

About 200 volunteers and supporters gathered July 12 for a much-anticipated town hall meeting to discuss the future of WTJU, UVA’s community radio station. It seemed to bring to a close a contentious period between some members of the 53-year-old station’s volunteer staff and university administrators, who shelved plans that DJs feared would put an […]

JPA Bridge set for fall overhaul

This fall, the 78-year-old Jefferson Park Avenue (JPA) Bridge—long overdue for an overhaul—will finally receive more than lip service. The Jefferson Park Avenue (JPA) Bridge, which connects the Fry’s Spring neighborhood to the portion of JPA that leads to UVA, will likely be out of service to cars for 16 months while it is fixed […]

Bel Rio looks for new tenants

The Belmont music venue that was at the center of the debate over the city’s noise ordinance may have sounded its last note. While a sign on Bel Rio’s door last week mentioned renovations to the restaurant and venue’s kitchen, landlord Jeff Easter told C-VILLE at press time that he saw no sign of renovations […]

Answer, Man?

Ace, for one, was found on a dark and stormy night on the doorstep of Albemarle County residents Mr. and Mrs. Atkins, tucked in a wicker basket with a letter that read, “Answer me.”

Huguely to police: Love bled while he shook her

Add up the hours since George Huguely’s arrest in connection with the brutal slaying of his ex-girlfriend, Yeardley Love, and the 22-year-old former UVA student has spent fewer than four days outside of his cell in Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Huguely, who is in segregation from the rest of the jail population, receives approximately one hour […]

Landmark demo would take a while

While Landmark Hotel owner Halsey Minor recently won $6.4 million in an arbitration hearing between him and former developer Lee Danielson a couple of weeks ago, and says additional legal battles between the pair are far from over, the fate of the existing structure on the Downtown Mall remains uncertain. “It will either be completed […]

Ken Cuccinelli has gone after health care reformers, academics, gays and a breast-baring Amazonian goddess. He says he's just doing his job.

On July 1, Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II and his legal team appeared in Richmond’s U.S. Circuit Court as they attempted to dismantle federal health care reform. While monumental enough—a state attorney general taking on a bill passed into law by Congress and signed by the President—it’s hardly all. Cuccinelli is also suing the […]

What do you do when you can't win 'em all?

 Of all the tiny bits of electoral arcana hidden in the Code of Virginia’s candidates and elections section (24.2-520, for those playing along at home), the most amusingly named has to be the so-called “Sore Loser” law. This little-known provision, probably inserted at the behest of a disgruntled candidate on the losing end of a […]