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With the exception of a slip of the tongue by Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Chairman Mike Gaffney

Well, it looks like it’s kind of a bad news/good news situation for newly elected Governor Bob McDonnell. On the downside, his carefully cultivated campaign image—which presented him as a sensible, well-coiffed, middle-of-the-road pragmatist—is in complete tatters, destroyed by a series of mean-spirited, politically tone-deaf moves against Virginia’s lesbian and gay community. On the plus […]

During the Jefferson Area Tea Party’s February meeting at Timberwood Grill, Keith Drake, chairman of the Albemarle Truth in Taxation Alliance, made a few introductory remarks. “It’s a lot of fun being a Tea Party patriot these days!” said Drake, who added that he was having a ball “rabble-rousing, bringing us back to our founders’ […]

Musicals are often brushed off as fluffy escapism, and yet the most-enduring ones—from Puccini’s popular operas to Sondheim’s Into The Woods—are about celebrating the frivolity and freedom of youth. That is, until the dread sets in. Cabaret is within this canon and the script is as germane with its politics and rhetoric as it was […]

 Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren participates in the statewide initiative “Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts” by inviting 17 women into this month’s exhibition.

 The great Virginia motivational author Napoleon Hill famously said, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Dear Ace: I’ve been on a cinema kick since crashing The Paramount Theater’s Oscar Night Party last weekend, and I’m jonesing to get back to the celluloid buffet. Sadly, the Virginia Film Festival won’t be happening again for a while. What other noteworthy picture shows should my fellow film buffs and I be aware of […]

After the hearing in Richmond, after activists and academics and law enforcement members testified to change Virginia’s marijuana laws, and after a General Assembly subcommittee struck down two bills that would do just that, what was left in the hearing room was this: a small baggie of a “leafy substance,” stashed behind the podium. It […]

“I am disappointed because I thought it should have been down further,” said Belmont resident Shirley Shotwell

 On most days, the Quality Community Council (QCC), a grassroots coalition located in a small space on West Main Street, attacks tangible problems facing Charlottesville’s most troubled neighborhoods—voter education, affordable housing and crime prevention, to name a few. However, on Wednesday afternoons, QCC takes on the more abstract agenda of reconciliation, and opens its doors […]