What are tampons doing in Moore's Creek?
With sufficiently heavy rain, the area’s sewer system overflows and clogged or backed-up manholes dump raw sewage into creeks
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What are tampons doing in Moore's Creek?
Overflowing sewage violates state law, local agencies get letters
With sufficiently heavy rain, the area’s sewer system overflows and clogged or backed-up manholes dump raw sewage into creeks
Cradle to Camera
Dear Ace: I really envy the parents of the next Picasso. Chances are, all they’ve gotta do is let their kid find some paints, a canvas and a brush and she practically trains herself. Me, I’m raising another Federico Fellini, or at the very least a Bertolucci or a Pasolini. So how do you nurture […]
High Violet; The National; 4AD
On their fifth album, Brooklyn’s the National sound more than ever like a band on the cusp of something bigger. Their elegant rock has made them an indie heavyweight, but their polish and calculated drama suggest that the band would be equally suited to stardom on the level of Coldplay or U2. (Even rawer tracks […]
Casteen urges graduates to step out courageously
Save for the 1907 bronze sculpture of Homer at one end of UVA’s original campus and the life-size, marble Thomas Jefferson at the other, the closest thing to a statue at Sunday’s 181st graduation exercises was University President John Casteen, who appeared both timeless and unshakeable before a crowd of thousands of graduates, his wife […]
With a price of $4.1 million, what could replace a dormant Ice Park?
As its June 30 closing date approaches, the Charlottesville Ice Park faces the real possibility of lying dormant
Woolen Mills man: City took private property without due process
On Thursday, April 29, Woolen Mills resident Louis Schultz was arrested and charged with attempted malicious wounding after rolling his car towards a group of city workers who were repairing a leaky sewage pipe on Steephill Street, near his home on E. Market Street. Schultz’s reasoning was simple: Steephill Street is private property, and the […]
19-year-old charged in city murder
Nineteen-year-old Demonte Burgess has a history with Sixth Street S.E. Last August, he was arrested for trespassing on the 700 block, near the Charlottesville Redevelopment & Housing Authority’s public housing development, after local police asked him not to return to city housing. Now, Burgess is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Miguel […]
In search of the McDonnell doctrine
O.K., so Virginia may not have been founded as an overflow saucer for English debt prisons (unlike certain peach-lovin’ southern neighbors we could name), but we’ve certainly had our share of miscreants and malefactors over the long history of the Commonwealth. And while things aren’t nearly as bad as they could be (this year’s blockbuster […]
Women are everywhere in Charlottesville’s arts community.
So where are the women in rock?
Marie Landragin doesn’t just play guitar. She plays guitar like a man. At a recent show at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, her band Corsair thrilled a crowd of about 25 people, mostly men. The focus of the room was not the band’s singer and lead guitarist, Paul Sebring—although he is a compelling and frenetic […]
More girls in the boys club
The comment board on my Feedback blog became ground zero in the debate over women in rock music when I asked an age-old question in April. Where are the women in Charlottesville rock? Just because the question bears asking doesn’t mean it can’t be answered. There are several bands here in town that prominently feature […]