There are obvious shortcomings to describing a visual medium in words. Hence this preview of 2009 LOOK3: Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph can only be a snapshot, and a poor one at that. It’s more like a Polaroid (RIP, Polaroid) photo that you’ll have to flap around between June 11 and June 13 before you […]
There are obvious shortcomings to describing a visual medium in words. Hence this preview of 2009 LOOK3: Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph can only be a snapshot, and a poor one at that. It’s more like a Polaroid (RIP, Polaroid) photo that you’ll have to flap around between June 11 and June 13 before you […]
Journalistically speaking, I came of age with the Village Voice. From that paper I came up with some notion of how I wanted to do my life’s work.
The County Board of Supervisors approved last Wednesday, the initial design for the new library for Downtown Crozet.
Dear Ace, Who made that fabulous soapstone guitar erected in the front of the Music Resource Center on Ridge Street? When did it go up and why did I just start seeing it?—Sculpture Lover Dear Sculpture Lover, Ace can’t account for why you just started seeing the sculpture, but he can tell you that it’s […]
When you’ve been around as long as we have—20 years, as we’ve reminded you every week for the past 22 weeks—you’re bound to see some things come around again. And again. Steve Earle, for instance. The troubador returns to the Paramount for a night of pill-popping tunes about a year after his last visit, and […]
Early last month, Congressman Tom Perriello announced that close to $37 million in stimulus funds would be used to repave roads, repair or build bridges, and add to transportation systems in the Fifth District. The projects to be funded are those that the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) deemed “recommended” and that the Virginia Transportation […]
“The opportunity that we have before us, that we are starting here tonight, revising that document and getting it right is really critical for the future of the Crozet community,”
In May 2008, the UVA Foundation bought the 60-room Econo Lodge at 400 Emmet St. and the adjacent restaurant
Some people really love trains. Railfans they call themselves. Train buffs. What the railway workers sometimes derogatorily call foamers because they foam at the mouth when they see a train. Railfans wear t-shirts celebrating their favorite railroads, they construct elaborate model train universes in their basements, and they travel long distances just to watch the […]
“There is an evil in today’s world greater than slavery.”