Ace: What’s up with the trailer full of books at the back of McIntire Recycling Center? I see people hanging around in there when I drop off my empties. Is it a secret library?—Red Tolstoy Dear Red: Although Ace Atkins isn’t exactly a literary guy, he likes to have a number of serious books on […]
Ace: What’s up with the trailer full of books at the back of McIntire Recycling Center? I see people hanging around in there when I drop off my empties. Is it a secret library?—Red Tolstoy Dear Red: Although Ace Atkins isn’t exactly a literary guy, he likes to have a number of serious books on […]
A “Carpenter Gothic” style home sits at 208 Hartman’s Mill Road, restored to all its late 19th century glory. The Nimmo House
Given the stranglehold that Democrats have on city politics—a complete lock on all elected positions except for the nonpartisan School Board—the real election for City Council is taking place May 9, when the Democrats will caucus “unassembled” to nominate their candidate slate. The city Democrats officially kicked off the political season with its annual pasta […]
Mark Crockett is no stranger to public records. The teacher at Western Albemarle High School has used salary information to compare pay raises for the district’s administrators and teachers and has sifted documents to challenge a consultant who concluded teachers didn’t value an early retirement incentive program. But as the state celebrated government transparency with […]
Hunter Smith’s love for a marching band knows no end. In keeping with tradition, Mrs. Smith, wife of the late Carl W. Smith, has pledged $10.7 million
It is time, America, to be more civil. This was the message handed down on Friday, March 20, in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. America is lacking in manners, and one dead president, one etiquette theorist, and well-mannered college students everywhere are going to do something about it. “Timely and important to society” is […]
The last thing that local artist Warren Craghead needed was something to keep him up at night—more time to kill, more spaces to fill. A hobby? Pffft. Craghead needs a hobby like he needs another art gallery, one more space to crowd with work. “At this point, the hobby is survival,” Craghead told me two […]
I don’t think I can do better than to quote the curators of the show in Second Street’s Dové Gallery, which gathers an international collection of art that’s influenced by comics. Think of these pieces as “graphic poems rather than graphic novels,” Warren Craghead and Pedro Moura suggest. It’s a fruitful approach. Even though the […]
Upon entering the County Office Building yesterday evening, it was apparent that this year’s annual hearing over the $303.7 million proposed budget
After almost five years as PACEM’s first executive director, Dave Norris is moving on.