Conservatives wake up for Albemarle Supervisors races
On a wet and chilly night, last Tuesday, county Republican chair Christian Schoenewald stood just outside the entrance to the main shelter at McIntire Park and beamed.
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Conservatives wake up for Albemarle Supervisors races
On a wet and chilly night, last Tuesday, county Republican chair Christian Schoenewald stood just outside the entrance to the main shelter at McIntire Park and beamed.
Losing Sleep; Parachute; Mercury/Island/Def Jam
“The lights go down in Brooklyn,” sings Will Anderson at the opening of Parachute’s debut album, Losing Sleep. Right now I’m sitting in my Brooklyn apartment, the lights are down, and I’m losing sleep trying to write this review. Parachute’s debut: Something to lose sleep over? Do I take the newsy approach, talking about the […]
Games people play
Memorial Day signals the start of summer…and of high gaming season. The holiday weekend means it’s time to grease your wheels and inflate your balls. If you’ve been sedentary since October, it’s time to wrap your knees and elbows with Ace bandages before taking to the baseball diamond. If you’re into fierce competition, it’s time […]
Happy Mothers pay?
Dear Ace, Mother’s Day has come and gone, and as a mother of four, I am once again left to ponder exactly what it is that I have accomplished over the last 30 years I have been raising children. Isn’t there a law somewhere that says you just DO NOT STEAL from your mother? Maybe […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
We’re 20 weeks in to this 20th birthday party. We’re also less than a month away from the official start to summer, but Memorial Day marks its unofficial beginning so let the playtime begin! This week, a, er, backwards glance at our 1999 kick-off to summer activities as well our first take on a political […]
Master planning for public housing redevelopment begins
“This process is about change,” said Alyn Pruett, Wallace Roberts & Todd’s (WRT) principal for Urban Planning at a meeting with the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) Board.
Red dirt alert!
In 2006, the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department found the swimming facility at Meade Park, Onesty Pool, to be “beyond the point of cost-effective repair.” It would need to be fully replaced. Maybe having learned from previous park projects (read Meadowcreek Parkway, McIntire softball fields), the city has gone out of its way to […]
School of Architecture welcomes new Dean
In the past year, the UVA School of Architecture has lost key faculty members and its dean, but last week, President John Casteen announced the appointment of Kim Tanzer as the school’s new leader. Kim Tanzer Tanzer, a professor at the University of Florida, will succeed Karen Van Lengen, who served as dean for 10 […]
Semester at Sea sails off for 100th voyage
With the theme of “Globalization and The Post American/Flat World,” the Semester at Sea program will sail off for its 100th voyage this fall. The very first voyage for the Semester at Sea program sailed off on September 18, 1926. The voyage lasted for 7 and a half months covering 41,000 miles and visiting […]
UVA grads don’t let drops rain on their parade
This past weekend marked the University of Virginia’s 180th Final Exercises. UVA President John Casteen awarded 6,280 degrees to the excited graduates. One thing the graduates didn’t expect was inclement weather. A constant drizzle of rain washed over the Lawn, but the decision was made to keep the ceremony out in the open. According […]