Dialogue on Race advances: big ideas, phone apps
Less than a year ago, the City of Charlottesville kicked off the Dialogue on Race, what Acting City Manager Maurice Jones now calls the “largest civic engagement project” in the city in a long time.
Where will we put 5 million pounds of recyclables if McIntire closes?
If change is in the air at the McIntire Recycling Center on McIntire Road, you’d never know it in the days just after Labor Day weekend. Cars line the parking […]
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival; Thursday, September 9; The Paramount Theater; Sunday, September 12; Old Cabell Hall
On the program for this year’s Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival is both old-guard classical work
Lady Gaga; The John Paul Jones Arena; Wednesday, September 8
During her first song Wednesday night at the John Paul Jones Arena, “Dance in the Dark,”
Winter issue of VQR cancelled
Plans for the Winter 2010 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review were in place by April, around the time editor Ted Genoways received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a project on […]
Landmark Hotel owner files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
On September 1, Minor Family Hotels, LLC—which owns the Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall and is overseen by CEO Halsey Minor—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal bankruptcy […]
Does Virginia's new chief justice signal a step forward?
We’d like to kick off this edition of the Odd Dominion by offering our most sincere congratulations to Justice Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser, who was recently elected to serve as […]
Clark withdraws offer to withdraw congressional bid
Two days after he offered to withdraw his third-party bid for the Fifth District Congressional seat, Jeffrey Clark—who launched his campaign when a GOP primary selected Virginia Senator Robert Hurt […]
New UVA research says when times are tight, you'll be happiest if you spend your money on experiences rather than stuff
In tough economic times, we often turn inwards for answers to our elusive happiness, for happiness is a big-ticket issue. Psychiatrists sell it by the bottle, clergymen offer it in […]