Dear Ace: Spring has put me in a Nietzschean mood. Where can I find a giant rock face to climb?—Der-Überbergsteiger-in-Charlottesville Ace groks ya, Friedrich. Having put himself through the kinds of dramatic highs and lows that most people never see outside of Wagnerian opera, he knows a thing or two about living on the edge, […]
Dear Ace: Spring has put me in a Nietzschean mood. Where can I find a giant rock face to climb?—Der-Überbergsteiger-in-Charlottesville Ace groks ya, Friedrich. Having put himself through the kinds of dramatic highs and lows that most people never see outside of Wagnerian opera, he knows a thing or two about living on the edge, […]
Doctor John Douglas Forbes—that’s “J.D. Forbes,” to the readers of his mystery novels—will celebrate a belated 100th birthday on Friday, as part of a reunion weekend for classes of the Darden School of Business. Forbes arrived at the University of Virginia in 1954 as a professor of business history and, with Professor Forrest Hyde and […]
If you were at the Flaming Lips concert at the Charlottesville Pavilion in 2006, Thursday night’s show might have felt like a time warp.
At some point, Bob McDonnell’s high-wire balancing act is going to come to an end.
The University of Virginia Art Museum is getting ready to expand its gallery space in the Bayly Building, with a capital campaign that defies my understanding of current economic conditions. As a preview, perhaps, of all the things they’ll be able to show after expanding, their current exhibition, “Highlights from the Collection” crams a kaleidoscopic […]
One of Barack Obama’s most attractive campaign promises was that he would shift America’s military focus from Iraq (the unjust war) to Afghanistan (a war of retaliation, at least). More than a year into his presidency, it’s beginning to look like the shift—crystallized in December when he announced a troop surge and withdrawal deadline—might have […]
On January 26, members of the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless (TJACH) spent the day counting beds in local homeless shelters, noting how many were occupied. After that, they moved on to lines at local soup kitchens, groups in day shelters and public parks. By the time they finished, they had counted 219 […]
It’s a sign of the times when Nicolas Cage’s Bel-Air, Tudor-style mansion is auctioned off and finds no interested bidders.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." For past coverage […]
Dear Ace: Is there was any connection between Charlottesville’s Boar’s Head Inn and the Boar’s Head Brand of delicatessen meats and cheeses? And if not, just what is it about the head of a boar that makes me feel so danged refined?—Glazed-and-Confused-in-Charlottesville To answer your first question: Nope. And even less so now, since Boar’s […]