FOOD Kate Collier Proprietor, Feast! Already an established player due to her ownership of Feast!, Collier is arguably one of the most recognized names in the local food scene. Now, she is leveraging that success to begin other ventures, like the Local Food Hub. Conceived and organized by Collier in 2008, the Local Food Hub […]
FOOD Kate Collier Proprietor, Feast! Already an established player due to her ownership of Feast!, Collier is arguably one of the most recognized names in the local food scene. Now, she is leveraging that success to begin other ventures, like the Local Food Hub. Conceived and organized by Collier in 2008, the Local Food Hub […]
And we just keep going in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, it’s a numbers game. In 2004, we listed the top 10 highest-paid Charlottesville and Albemarle employees [Here’s a PDF of the 2004 story], with Robert Tucker topping the county’s list at […]
And we just keep going in our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, a “green” story from a perhaps unexpected source: Dominion Power, whose Lake Anna nuclear facility, merely 30 miles from town, creeps closer and closer to expansion. Also, this week, remembrances of […]
Dear Ace: Between the 5th and 6th holes of the Meadow Creek Golf Course is an untended cemetery. Do you have any information pertaining to this?—Resta N. Pease Resta: Usually when someone mentions a cemetery on a golf course, Ace assumes she’s talking about the sand trap that buries all of Ace’s Titleist balls. But […]
Just for a few days this week, you can go to The Bridge and see a top-shelf collection of largely local art.
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 […]
For more than a year now, the housing market has been on a nonstop rollercoaster ride.
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 […]
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 […]
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.