Dear Ace: I hear the CCDC is running an exhibition about the history and design of the Downtown Mall. What’s up with that?—Pedestrian-Mallrat-in-Charlottesville Good question. Nowadays Ace basically lives at the Mudhouse, having learned to sustain himself on a diet of dried coffee grounds and free Wi-Fi, and like you, he wonders about what exactly […]
After his team’s 18-4 dispatching of Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday evening, UVA men’s lacrosse coach Dom Starsia told reporters how important it was for his team to “stay together for a while more.” For last Saturday’s 18-4 defeat of Mount St. Mary’s, the UVA men’s lacrosse team donned shirts honoring slain fourth-year student-athlete Yeardley […]
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s fight against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turned personal in late April, when Cuccinelli demanded UVA turn over documents, computer code and correspondence related to the research and grants of Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist at UVA from 1999 to 2005. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli may have pushed UVA too […]
Pundits throughout the media realm are pontificating on Arizona’s new immigration law, and Virgil Goode recently added his voice to the fray. Will former congressman Virgil Goode throw his hat in for a third-party run? Seems unlikely, but he can still combat political correctness around the Fifth District. Goode, the Fifth District’s former Republican congressman, […]
When former UVA President Robert M. O’Neil met in Madison Hall with the man who took his job 20 years ago, the controversy of the moment—and when you’re a university president, there is always a controversy of the moment—was a typically rogue pronouncement by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He had effectively told state higher ed […]
Way back in our very first column we promised that, at some future date, we would explore the obscure origins of our commonwealth’s dominatrix-themed flag (which features, as we so amusingly put it, “a half-naked virgin stomping on a chain-wielding dead guy”). Three years and three months later, it looks like that time has finally […]
Last Tuesday night’s “Digitalis,” the annual computer music festival at UVA, was different from most computer music concerts I have been to for three reasons.
Worry not, young skywatcher. To quote Oscar Wilde, “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
After 17 years of working his way up the political ladder, Kenneth C. Boyd is arguably at the height of his influence, both as a Republican and as a local government leader. The GOP-dominated November elections exchanged two liberal-leaning Albemarle County supervisors for two Republicans who were aided in their campaigns by Boyd, and ushered […]
Near the end of a May 5 vigil that gathered thousands from the UVA community to mourn the death two days earlier of fourth-year student Yeardley Love, Student Council President Colin Hood called for a moment of silence. For precisely 27 seconds, all the ambient noise of the vigil—the sobs of some, the whispered conversations […]