Planners to hear controversial application for Belmont restaurant
The commercial strip on Belmont’s Hinton Avenue has seen steady development in the past few years.
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Planners to hear controversial application for Belmont restaurant
Owners have offered proffers to alleviate concerns
The commercial strip on Belmont’s Hinton Avenue has seen steady development in the past few years.
Tartuffe; Live Arts, in the DownStage Theater; Through May 23
It is no accident that David Dwyer’s set design for Tartuffe incorporates dramatic, gilded picture frames that stretch from the stage to the Live Arts balcony. Like the title character of Molière’s play, the frames are attractive on the outside and empty on the inside. They are bloated, eye-grabbing symbols of hypocrisy, so it makes […]
Forty-five songs that every Charlottesville music fan should know
Stephen Malkmus (left) of Pavement, No. 26 Things are going to get loud. And I don’t strictly mean musically speaking, though we have our fair share of the really noisy stuff on this list—from the nastiest instrumental metal to the soundtrack for a long-gone underground venue. We’ve got plenty of the quiet stuff, too—extinct local […]
Lit mag gives UVA docs a creative outlet
“A lot of doctors have writer’s block,” says Dr. Daniel Becker, “but they all have stories and they all tell stories.” Think about that the next time you describe your odd symptoms to your physician—they might just end up in her next book. In addition to being the director of UVA’s Center for Biomedical Ethics […]
Darden included in Kindle DX pilot program
Amazon.com announced on May 6 its plans for a pilot program involving five universities to test its new device, Kindle DX. Among them: UVA’s Darden School of Business, the only business school chosen. “The graduate business school arena is quite different from the undergraduate schools participating in the program,” says Ken White, vice president of […]
Norris and Szakos win noms at unassembled caucus
Charlottesville’s Democrats used a new “unassembled caucus” Saturday, May 9, to elect Dave Norris and Kristin Szakos as their candidates for City Council and James Brown III, as their candidate for Sheriff in the November 3 general election.
Downtown Mall finally gets its new lease on life
Disappointingly, there were no “oohs” or “aahs” at the May 4 City Council meeting when Jim Tolbert made a final slideshow presentation on the rebricking project, but its unofficial slogan—“on time and under budget”—was uttered at least twice. “When all the bills are paid,” Tolbert, director of Neighborhood Development Services, said, “we should be 10 […]
Could Crozet Elementary be reborn as an arts academy?
Last June, a re-use study was conducted in the town of Crozet to determine the fate of its old elementary school.
We’d like to thank the Brickademy…
You may not believe it, but you’ll be pretty happy for us anyway. Trust.
The Beats: A Graphic History; Edited by Paul Buhle; Hill & Wang, 208 pages
The Beats: A Graphic History is a graphic biography of the close-knit group of avant garde macho writers of the 1950s and ’60s like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs who were referred to as “the Beatniks” or “Beats.” At a time when American society was defining itself through suburban expansion, commercial development […]