After my final interview with Dave Kannensohn, he called me at my office to let me know he forgot to mention something. (That kind of thing happens to people his age.) The name Eubie Blake, he says. Huh? Eubie Blake, he says. Eubie Blake was a pianist who was born to former slaves in 1883. […]
More than two months after Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi asked local artist Chris Butler to display his paintings and pen-and-ink work inside Baldi’s Belmont club, Butler returned to take his work from the walls. By then, Bel Rio had been closed for nearly two weeks, and its owner—the subject of a $300,000 fraud lawsuit […]
If there’s one member of Virginia’s congressional delegation who intrigues us the most, it has to be James Henry Webb, Jr
With the money Halsey Minor says he will seek in damages in a lawsuit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), he claims he will not only finish building the Landmark Hotel, but will be involved in more developments in Downtown Charlottesville. Minor wrote in a Huffington Post editorial that, by dividing the FDIC’s loan […]
First Place Untitled, by Nick Strocchia Second Place “Crozet View,” by David Anhold Third Place Untitled, by Hannah Peterson […]
City Council’s discussion last Monday made clear that it supports further lowering the late-night music level in Belmont and Fry’s Spring to 55 decibels.
This week Teresa Sullivan begins her term as the eighth President of UVA. She walks into a situation dominated by economic challenges and ever-shrinking financial support from the Commonwealth. But that hasn’t kept faculty and staff at the University from crafting a wish list of changes they’d like to see happen under the new Prez. […]
Willie Nelson’s contributions to the American musical canon are so great that he could’ve ululated naked Saturday at the Charlottesville Pavilion
From former clients of his Virginia Payroll & Tax business to the Virginia Department of Taxation, more than a few folks would like to know the whereabouts of Jim Baldi. Baldi, who also owns the Belmont club Bel Rio, now shuttered, slipped out of Charlottesville during the last few weeks without a trace, apparently. Other […]
On the west side of Old Lynchburg Road, directly opposite Biscuit Run, sits Whittington—Biscuit Run’s Rural Area cousi