“It’s not about slavery. It’s not about racism. For a lot of us it’s about ancestors.” Amanda Kutch is a United Daughter of the Confederacy and on Saturday morning, September 19, she’s dressed like one. Blonde, fair, and outfitted in a blue, flowered dress with a white blouse and a crocheted hairnet, Kutch is […]
“It’s not about slavery. It’s not about racism. For a lot of us it’s about ancestors.” Amanda Kutch is a United Daughter of the Confederacy and on Saturday morning, September 19, she’s dressed like one. Blonde, fair, and outfitted in a blue, flowered dress with a white blouse and a crocheted hairnet, Kutch is […]
At its last meeting on September 15, the city’s Board of Architectural Review (BAR) had a full agenda
Virginia law does not limit the amount an individual or corporation can donate to political campaigns, but it does require candidates to disclose donations. The September 15 filing reveals that from July 1 to August 31, in elections for the Charlottesville City Council, Albemarle Board of Supervisors and House of Delegates, money was flowing but […]
Hey Ace, what gives? I get all primped and cologned to go groove with the ladies at Rapture, but I get there and find a bunch of shrimpy dudes and mousy chicks playing live bar trivia, wearing taped glasses and suspenders and stuff, but not ironically, you know? I asked them who they were and […]
Some UVA faculty members are mad over the implementation of the Student Information System (SIS)
In the first act of Glengarry Glen Ross, pairs of men in suits use bad words and sip hard drinks in a Chinese restaurant. This is the real estate business, a changing industry, and they’re desperate to keep their jobs by any means necessary. The lights are low and the music cheesy as each pair […]
JUMP TO: • HITS • MISSES PLUS: • From the owner’s suite: 20 years of C-VILLE [w/video tour!] • Saving us thousands of words What does it mean to turn 20? Well, you’re more than barely legal. You still have to rely on your friends to buy you beer. And you’re starting to improve behind […]
Someday, kid, you’re gonna be a star Early brushes with David Matthews (and his sister Jane), Tina Fey, Trevor Moore and Steve Keene. December 21, 1989 November 22, 1994 May 12, 1998 November 13, 1990 […]
Assault with an inky weapon Blogs were yet to become commonplace, but "Gail Force" managed to flame misdirected Working Weekly publisher Gail Bentley, anyway, using all the tricks of the yet-to-be-born trade: anonymity, vitriol and recurrent posts that lasted for months. Too bad somebody didn’t hit the editorial staff in the head with one of […]
I have had two business partners: a tall one, Hawes, and a shorter one, Rob. Each had their strengths. Hawes was a lively editor who dutifully ran the paper when I moved to New York for several years, but left the company seven years ago; much later I stuck around when Rob, known around here […]