Housing market bottom still out of sight
For more than a year now, the housing market has been on a nonstop rollercoaster ride.
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Housing market bottom still out of sight
First-quarter figures show slowing sales, rising inventory and dropping prices
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 […]
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 […]
The mysteries of Shad Planking revealed
Don’t ask us why, but it cannot be denied that greasy, indigestible foodstuffs and electoral politics fit together like William Howard Taft and his seven-foot presidential tub.