C-VILLE Weekly walks into a bar…ouch
What’s the one thing that both comedians and the Virginia Film Festival fear? A tough audience! Ba-zing!
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C-VILLE Weekly walks into a bar…ouch
Plus: Festival Director Jody Kielbasa tells us a joke!
What’s the one thing that both comedians and the Virginia Film Festival fear? A tough audience! Ba-zing!
Thievery Corporation; Charlottesville Pavilion; Thursday, October 29
During high school, my friends and I misspent more than a few Saturday nights driving aimlessly around the suburbs searching for fast food and listening to chill-out mainstays like Funki Porcin
Mountain intervals
Ace, I’m leaf-peeping along 64W, and I’m presented with a difficult choice. I can turn left, and head south along the Blue Ridge Parkway for free. So why is it that, if I turn right, I have to shell out $15 to enter the Shenandoah National Park, for basically the same scenery? What exactly am […]
Odd prediction: Governor McDonnell
Well, here we sit, just a week away from Election Day, and things are certainly not looking up for the good ol’ boy from Bath, Creigh Deeds.
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in 20 years of covering Charlottesville, it’s this: Folks here are political animals, but they’re not always electoral animals. Consider that seven years ago winning a measly 11 percent—11 bleedin’ percent!—of city voters was enough to land a new guy on City Council. We’re hoping that the pollsters are […]
Mount Eerie; UVA Chapel; Friday, October 23
Scandinavian legend has it that in April of 1991, the lead singer of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, who went by the name Dead, committed suicide in a remote cabin owned by the band outside Oslo.
Deeds done?
If Creigh Deeds becomes Virginia’s next governor, it will be in spite of himself. If, in a shocking turn of events, Virginia voters elect Creigh Deeds the Commonwealth’s next governor next week, Deeds will have a lot of thanking to do. In the waning weeks of the campaign, the job has increasingly fallen to others […]
Candidates for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that the Charlottesville region has lost close to 8 percent of its farmland in only five years. Between 2002 and 2007, 56,836 acres were lost. Across Virginia, more than half a million acres were lost, making it the largest decline in the last 20 years. What is the role […]
Candidates for Charlottesville City Council
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2005, in Charlottesville 9,101 residents were living in poverty. That’s 23.7 percent of the total population. What is the role of City Council in addressing this problem? Why, in your estimation, have past Councils failed to make strides in this area? Bob Fenwick, (I) Twenty three point […]
Candidates for Charlottesville Sheriff
The latest budget reductions announced by Gov. Tim Kaine in early September included a 4.7 percent cut for sheriff’s offices. Given the budget cuts to the Charlottesville Sheriff’s Office, what are your priorities? What programs would you consider funding and which one would you consider cutting? Paul Best, (I) These are tough times for all […]