Combine Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, and Robert Heinlein and you get Corsair, one of the most rocking bands in town. The Sabbath part makes perfect sense, as the band originally spawned from the annual local tribute act, Mass Sabbath. A nod to Thin Lizzy isn’t hard either, since guitarists Marie Landragin and Paul Sebring play […]
Combine Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, and Robert Heinlein and you get Corsair, one of the most rocking bands in town. The Sabbath part makes perfect sense, as the band originally spawned from the annual local tribute act, Mass Sabbath. A nod to Thin Lizzy isn’t hard either, since guitarists Marie Landragin and Paul Sebring play […]
Some friendships are too beautiful for words. Fortunately, in the hands of Patti Smith, the 22-year bond between her and Robert Mapplethorpe is not one of them. But Just Kids is more than a memoir of a relationship that started as a romance and later, when Mapplethorpe realized he was gay, endured as a […]
The eight-bedroom brick mansion at 150 Madison Lane, former home to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, has been vacant since fall. The frat’s alumni board still owns the building, but no new plans have been announced for its use. Last week, Charlottesville City Council approved a special use permit for the former Phi Mu Sorority […]
On February 1, City Council voted to raise the new supported affordable housing goal to 15 percent over 15 years
ZONING COST COMPARISON Rezoning 9 acres Compare to: Oakleigh Farm In Albemarle County: $1,020 Proposed increase to: $2,500 Difference of: $1,480 Percentage fee increase: 145% In Charlottesville: $1,500 In Fluvanna: $750 In Greene: $2,882 In Stafford: $12,978 Rezoning 270 acres Compare to: North Pointe In Albemarle County: $1,570 Proposed increase to: $3,500 Difference […]
A day before Morgan Harrington’s family held a memorial service for their daughter at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia State Police called a press conference to plead for any local residents with intimate knowledge of Anchorage Farm and the North Garden area to come forward. READ MORE News Analysis: John Paul Jones must […]
Whatever happened to the All-American City, the Best Place to Live, the Best Place to Relocate, Tree City USA, the place—when I first moved here for graduate school in the 1970s—that soothed my heart, gave me life, and healed my soul? READ MORE Police urge locals to speak up about location Family and friends of […]
MORE COVERAGE RELATED TO MORGAN HARRINGTON: Virginia State Police releases new phone number for tips Morgan Harrington’s death officially ruled a homicide Morgan Harrington’s Pantera t-shirt found near 15th Street? Reward money in Harrington case not rewarded David Bass describes finding body that is likely Morgan Harrington [with video] Anchorage Farm body, still unidentified, found […]
Hey Ace: Have you seen those peculiar timepieces —the ones with the animated sun and moon circling around the screen—that have been popping up around the Downtown Mall? My little girl found a kid-sized version in one of the Virginia Discovery Museum play zones, and later I spotted another one in the Bank of America […]
All things considered, Virginia’s minty fresh new governor Bob McDonnell had about as good a first few weeks as any pearly toothed pol could ask for. He gave a platitude-filled, well-received inauguration speech, threw himself a million-dollar party, and then settled into his big comfy governor’s chair and got down to the business of reversing […]