Judging the Miss Gay Charlottesville contest at Club 216 August 12, 2008 Photo by Jason Lappa Choir from Free Union’s Faith Mission Fellowship singing on The Corner August 10, 1994 Photo by Lou Baron Foxfield Races December 30, 2008 Photo by Aaron Farrington Jak ‘n’ Jil’s John Clark at […]
Judging the Miss Gay Charlottesville contest at Club 216 August 12, 2008 Photo by Jason Lappa Choir from Free Union’s Faith Mission Fellowship singing on The Corner August 10, 1994 Photo by Lou Baron Foxfield Races December 30, 2008 Photo by Aaron Farrington Jak ‘n’ Jil’s John Clark at […]
Last Tuesday, Gov. Tim Kaine announced budget cuts to meet the Fiscal Year 2010 $1.35 billion revenue shortfall. The total shortfall for the both FY 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 is estimated at more than $7 billion. Kaine’s plan calls for the elimination of 929 positions, including 593 layoffs. Among the saving measures announced, a one-day furlough […]
My experience with Alex Caton’s self-titled debut album was somewhat supernatural. The album didn’t arrive so much as it appeared beneath my desk during the fall of 2007—not long after its release, yet covered in dust, as if trapped during some coal mine cave-in decades earlier. The elements reclaimed it a few months later, when […]
Ace, I’m worried about my little girl. I’ve been tracking her online activity daily, and she seems to spend hours on her MyFaceSpace. God forbid she fall in with the wrong crowd, or worse, catch the eye of some sicko stalker. In the interest of keeping tabs, I’ve decided to create a SpaceFageBook page of […]
We know it’s hard to believe, but there was once a time—way back when polling places had hitching posts and no legislative chamber was considered complete without a spittoon—that political races were completely ignored before Labor Day. No, really—there were no early opinion polls, no third-party attack ads, no nothin’! In fact, a fellow could […]
We know that for years you’ve been seeing other people—and we’ve been watching you watching them. That’s right, we’re talking about TV. Eleven years ago, we celebrated the rise of cable-access wunderkind Trevor Moore, who went on to a Hollywood career from Covenant High School. And speaking of D-Listers, we subjected C-VILLE TV critic Eric […]
It wasn’t that long ago that TV critics were all but pronouncing the death of the sitcom. Sure, certain comedies succeeded, even flourished, with cheesy laugh tracks and all. (“According to Jim” ran for eight seasons, people. How did we let that happen?) But the genre that once dominated the airwaves had increasingly fewer representatives […]
In 1876, Crozet was created as a “whistle stop” on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
On Tuesday, September 8, City Council held a public hearing on the relocation of a sewer pipeline into McIntire Park
The school bus stops outside Stephanie Gist’s house at the corner of Fifth and Dice streets in Fifeville, a neighborhood of hills, narrow roads and odd intersections.