Various artists, works for the Revel fundraiser at The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative; Through April 25; Live auction 8pm
Just for a few days this week, you can go to The Bridge and see a top-shelf collection of largely local art.
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Various artists, works for the Revel fundraiser at The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative; Through April 25; Live auction 8pm
A most attractive pitch
Just for a few days this week, you can go to The Bridge and see a top-shelf collection of largely local art.
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 […]
Housing market bottom still out of sight
For more than a year now, the housing market has been on a nonstop rollercoaster ride.
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 […]
Inventors of the year develop improved MRI techniques
John Mugler and James Brookeman walked to the podium and posed for pictures. Erik Hewlett, chair of the UVA Patent Foundation Board of Directors, handed each a shiny plaque.
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 […]
Dean Dass’ “Signs of Divinity are Hard to Read”; The Garage; Through April 26
When we were young and studied science in textbooks, there was a clarity to the images on the pages: cells dividing, electrons spinning. The facts of the world seemed just that—facts. What Dean Dass’ new show examines is the idea that clarity and facts are illusions, or at least mutable. Taking old textbook pages, scanning […]
Guitar Hero: Metallica; Activision/Red Octane; Xbox 360/PlayStation 3
It’s somehow appropriate that a Guitar Hero expansion featuring Metallica, the band that became the de facto poster child in the early battles against file sharing, should be the most restrictive one yet. Even though the $60 price tag is the same as what you’d pay for the Guitar Hero World Tour disc, you get […]