Dave Matthews Band; John Paul Jones Arena; Friday, April 17

Every city needs a house large enough to hold its biggest hero. For Dave Matthews Band’s first of two gigs this weekend (and first in Charlottesville since September 2006), the John Paul Jones Arena nearly proved too small. Big Whiskey a-go go! Dave Matthews Band doused a packed John Paul Jones Arena with a few […]

McAuliffe, Rooker and Norris lead in 1Q finance reports

The first quarter financial disclosure reports are out revealing who raised what in the local and statewide elections. In the run for Governor, according to records compiled by Virginia Public Access Project and the Virginia State Board of Elections, Democratic candidate and fundraising powerhouse Terry McAuliffe is in the lead with $4,215,777, followed by lone […]

Hundreds protest Federal spending on Tax Day

First there was George W. Bush’s Wall Street bailout back in November. Then came Barack Obama and his $787 billion stimulus package, followed by a massive pork-filled omnibus spending package, and now a projected $3.55 trillion for the 2010 budget. The amount being spent is dizzying, and to a core segment of mostly conservative Americans […]

Stimulus package wards off steep tuition increase

The federal stimulus package has lent some breathing room to UVA’s constricting financial situation. On Monday, April 13, the Board of Visitors approved a lower-than-expected tuition increase for both in-state and out-of-state students. Virginians, who comprise 69 percent of the student population, will pay $375, or 5 percent, more per year to a total of […]

A dozen ways Charlottesville causes climate change

Before we get into the chemical compounds and statistical trends and tonnage numbers sure to scare the hair right off a hippie, let’s you and I define a word. Ambitious. The definition of this adjective, I think we both can agree, rests in the details of one particular plan of President Barack Obama. WHAT’S YOUR […]

Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight

Though their cover dominance might suggest that in 20 years C-VILLE has covered nothing artsy but Dave Matthews Band, we want to set the record straight right here and now: Once in a while we have reported on other pressing cultural matters, including the controversy over the state song and the 20 minutes that Georgia […]