Borrow a Horse; Old Calf; No Quarter Records
Each song on Borrow A Horse plucks a folk rhyme from centuries past, presenting it not as an excavated artifact, but as a nugget smoothed and refined by the sands of time.
Martha Jefferson addresses merger concerns
In late September, Martha Jefferson Hospital (MJH) announced a merger with Sentara—a large, not-for-profit health care system based in Norfolk, Virginia. Sentara, which generated $1.7 billion in revenue in 2009, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]