On the day that I set out to walk the future route of the Meadowcreek Parkway, a friend and I spoke about the old Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The vibrant Black community was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Charlottesville’s expanding business district and a north/south road that would connect Ridge Street to […]
On the day that I set out to walk the future route of the Meadowcreek Parkway, a friend and I spoke about the old Vinegar Hill neighborhood. The vibrant Black community was razed in the early 1960s to make way for Charlottesville’s expanding business district and a north/south road that would connect Ridge Street to […]
“Clearly, they’re waiting for a party to start,” said David Letterman before introducing Wilco for a recent performance on “The Late Show.” He gestured at the table pictured on the cover of the band’s seventh studio release, Wilco (The Album). Abracadabra! The new Wilco record is a smaller bag of tricks, but still has its […]
Mahmoud Darwish was a young Palestinian poet living in Haifa, effectively in exile, when he published these words: “I do not hate people/Nor do I encroach/But if I become hungry/The usurper’s flesh will be my food.” It was 1964 when this poem, “Identity Card,” was published, the same year that the Palestine Liberation Organization was […]
Dear Ace: Why haven’t your devoted readers asked you any questions this week?-Ace Ace, Recently Ace has become frustrated by the lack of authentic reader questions. This week he was forced to pick his brain to come up with some burning question of his own. Unfortunately Ace is too wise to have his own inquiries […]
Ace: Every day I walk past the construction site on Maury Avenue for the Jefferson Scholars’ new building at UVA. One day, I looked up and saw a good size log—yes, log—hanging on an electric line that runs in front of the site. Every day as I walk underneath it I think: If that log […]
O.K., I admit it—I still owe Michael Dean 20 bucks. See, way back in the misty, mohawked recesses of time (like, 1984), when I was but a wee, dog collar-sportin’ Downtown Mall rat, Dean was the lead singer of Baby Opaque, the hands-down best band in Charlottesville at the time (sorry, Indecision fanatics). A completely […]
It’s a matter of precision. With the word “local” at risk of becoming a term as ubiquitous and somewhat meaningless as “green” or “organic,” as this week’s cover story illustrates, we remind you of the specific use of that term when we applied in our cover package from last year, “How local can you go?” […]
At the moment, UVA’s Grounds seem to have construction projects everywhere you look, but the University is slated to wrap up some of that orange fencing this summer and fall.
The cost of higher education is getting—what else?—higher. This time, via the plastic payment option. Paying by credit card involves an additional 2.75 percent convenience fee. Though that may seem like a small addition, the costs rack up when you are dealing with numbers like the cost of higher education. That additional fee has increased […]
Though signs of a national recovery remain elusive, the local housing market has seen a slight increase in activity in Albemarle County.