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Five years after it was designated a historic site, the Jefferson School finally has a starting date for a long-planned redevelopment to preserve its character.

 The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is one of my favorite places in Charlottesville. I like its serene setting on Pantops, the simplicity of the museum’s purpose, and the way the staff is either unobtrusive or delighted to see me

“The psychoanalysts say that most of us who fear heights do so because when we’re up high, we have to struggle hard against a potent urge—it’s the death drive operating—to toss ourselves off and end it

 It took an Australian label to bring back the early recordings of a New York band that thrived in the ’70s and ’80s punk scene and yet was never really of it. The Fleshtones—unlike many other garage revivalists—were not interested in finding common ground between decades or in creating a “pure” authenticity. They had to […]

 Dear Ace: I hear the CCDC is running an exhibition about the history and design of the Downtown Mall. What’s up with that?—Pedestrian-Mallrat-in-Charlottesville Good question. Nowadays Ace basically lives at the Mudhouse, having learned to sustain himself on a diet of dried coffee grounds and free Wi-Fi, and like you, he wonders about what exactly […]

 After his team’s 18-4 dispatching of Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday evening, UVA men’s lacrosse coach Dom Starsia told reporters how important it was for his team to “stay together for a while more.” For last Saturday’s 18-4 defeat of Mount St. Mary’s, the UVA men’s lacrosse team donned shirts honoring slain fourth-year student-athlete Yeardley […]

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s fight against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turned personal in late April, when Cuccinelli demanded UVA turn over documents, computer code and correspondence related to the research and grants of Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at UVA from 1999 to 2005.  Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may have pushed UVA too […]

Pundits throughout the media realm are pontificating on Arizona’s new immigration law, and Virgil Goode recently added his voice to the fray. Will former congressman Virgil Goode throw his hat in for a third-party run? Seems unlikely, but he can still combat political correctness around the Fifth District. Goode, the Fifth District’s former Republican congressman, […]

When former UVA President Robert M. O’Neil met in Madison Hall with the man who took his job 20 years ago, the controversy of the moment—and when you’re a university president, there is always a controversy of the moment—was a typically rogue pronouncement by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He had effectively told state higher ed […]

 Way back in our very first column we promised that, at some future date, we would explore the obscure origins of our commonwealth’s dominatrix-themed flag (which features, as we so amusingly put it, “a half-naked virgin stomping on a chain-wielding dead guy”). Three years and three months later, it looks like that time has finally […]