At the end of July, Monticello High School athletes got a new state-of-the-art synthetic turf field. The school is the first of the three county high schools—including Western Albemarle and Albemarle—to have the synthetic turf installed, and for Monticello High Athletics Director Fitzgerald Barnes, the new surface is not exactly what he was expecting. […]
At the end of July, Monticello High School athletes got a new state-of-the-art synthetic turf field. The school is the first of the three county high schools—including Western Albemarle and Albemarle—to have the synthetic turf installed, and for Monticello High Athletics Director Fitzgerald Barnes, the new surface is not exactly what he was expecting. […]
Here’s a riddle. When is rainfall bad for the environment?
It’s hard to believe, but Peter Hatch didn’t have gardening in his blood. Now 32 years into his work restoring the gardens at Monticello, a task that his former boss says makes him “known to every historical gardener in America,” Hatch’s early aspiration was to be a poet. And in a sense—a living, dirt-under-your-nails, sticky-stuff-on-your-forearms […]
What is a clockmaker to do, Ace? In this age of atomic timekeeping and all-in-one cellular gadgets, it seems like everyone’s turned a blind eye to our noble craft. I have this terrific idea for an escapement-driven pendulum, but everyone keeps telling me that it’s “so 17th-century.” I don’t suppose there’s anyone in Charlottesville who […]
The first day of classes for all freshmen and returning students marked the start of last year for John Casteen as UVA president.
You know, we spend all kinds of time poking and prodding into the seamy, unsavory corners of Virginia’s political basement, so you can trust us on this one
John Kluge’s donation of an extensive collection of Australian aboriginal artworks, presented to the University of Virginia in 1997, was extraordinary. So it makes sense for the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, born from that gift, to pay tribute to the man on the occasion of his 95th birthday. What’s successful about this celebratory exhibition is […]
Last week’s three-band bill at Fry’s Spring Beach Club was likely the loudest event to resound through the thickly wooded neighborhood since the venue was constructed
These are strange days, Ace. I hear whispered rumors of a mysterious figure, a “grocery messiah,” coming in from the west, his hour come round at last, slouching towards Charlottesville to do business. Some call him Trader Joe. I’ve browsed every prophetic text I can find, but none mention him. Who is he? And should […]
Ten years ago, when Petronella Oostingh and her husband moved into a house on Harvest Drive, the nearby railway bridge over Old Ivy Road didn’t concern them much at first. Back then, she says, the concrete abutments that supported the rail overpass seemed sturdy enough to accommodate the frequent passage of load-bearing freight trains. Then […]