Scents and sensibility
As the real estate value of Woolen Mills rose during the last decade, so too did the neighborhood’s concern for the pump station stench.
A balance of power
In the weeks since a pair of natural disasters compromised nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, locals looked to Louisa County’s North Anna Nuclear Power Plant, located 30 miles from Charlottesville, and asked whether a similar catastrophe could occur. Dominion Power spokesman Ric Zuercher says a nuclear power plant like North Anna (pictured), 30 […]
Wheels keep on turning
Want to make things easier for local bike commuters? You might have to get behind the Meadow Creek Parkway. At least on paper, the controversial, 40-plus-year Charlottesville-Albemarle connector is a biker’s dream: designated bike paths, pedestrian trails and lush, green scenery. For Caroline Laco, who commutes from her home behind Fashion Square Mall to Harris […]
Laugh it up
It’s Oscar night and things could be going better. Jim Zarling is doing stand-up in front of a crowd of 25 or 30 people at the Southern and, for whatever reason, he’s having trouble connecting. His first few jokes get some modest laughs, and then he flubs—totally flubs—a routine about cult members. He hits the […]
The Memory of Water; Live Arts; Through March 27
As we’ve seen in recent weeks, water—the very “stuff of life”—often seems to have a wicked mind of its own. In fact, in the early ’90s the French scientist Jacques Benveniste conducted a series of experiments that seemed to indicate that water is capable of a kind of memory. His theory, which nobody’s been able […]
Keeping up the Kluge winery
Mere weeks before the auction that will convey Patricia Kluge’s wine empire to the highest bidders, 20 former employees of the Kluge Estate Winery & Vineyard continue to maintain the foreclosed property’s vines and facilities. The workers, says winery employee Tim Rausse, are touching up everything from a 34,000-square-foot carriage house to an unglamorous “modular […]
Halsey Minor: $84,000 in tax trouble
According to city staff, Minor owes Charlottesville a whopping $84,351.68 in real estate taxes.
Fear global, act local
In January, when Fifth District Republican Congressman Robert Hurt opened his new Charlottesville office, Jefferson Area Tea Party (JATP) Chair Carole Thorpe told C-VILLE that the group planned to turn from the federal government to local issues. Representatives of the local tea party, part of the national swell of groups calling for reduced government oversight, […]
Cheek to cheek
In 2008, Mark Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate, and Cantor suddenly discovered that he wasn’t the only pair of chiseled cheekbones and Chiclets-perfect choppers on the Hill.
The Kennedy administration at 50
Fifty years ago, John Kennedy’s first 100 days as president were drawing to a close and his approval ratings topped 80 percent