In Live Arts’ production of the The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder offers unexpected advice for the penny pincher in tough economic times: Ladies and fellas, fall in love. The play focuses on the transformation of Horace Vandergelder from a miserly, lonely merchant to a generous husband. Instigating this transformation—and at the center of all the raucous […]
In Live Arts’ production of the The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder offers unexpected advice for the penny pincher in tough economic times: Ladies and fellas, fall in love. The play focuses on the transformation of Horace Vandergelder from a miserly, lonely merchant to a generous husband. Instigating this transformation—and at the center of all the raucous […]
Six Years marks an evolution for Charlottesville’s Old School Freight Train, in which the band leaps from the well-traveled track of “newgrass” onto a blend of pop and traditional music that’s all its own. Place your bets on the new Old School Freight Train record, the long-awaited Six Years. The album will be released during […]
You know, when it comes to politics, sometimes it’s good to be invisible. Sure, most elected officials dream of having Barack Obama’s charisma, JFK’s sex appeal, Hillary Clinton’s smarts and Ronald Reagan’s hair—but then, most of them also dream of being president, and we all know how often that fantasy ends in tears. But the […]
Dear Ace: Last week I drove by the McIntire Skate Park and saw grown men and women riding bikes in circles while whacking balls with mallets. What were they doing and should I be scared?—CiCi Ryder CiCi: Congratulations. You have discovered an urban subculture new to Charlottesville: the exciting world of hard court bike polo. […]
On January 1, the new University Human Resources (HR) plan went into effect.
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past two decades of local news and arts in C-VILLE. Already, we’ve touted our early jump on various bandwagons (hello, DMB; hello, green building), and this week, in light of the fight in Orange County over situating a Wal-Mart near […]
When Gens. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met in battle, it was in May 1864, at a site called Wilderness—just 50 miles northeast of Charlottesville. And the result of that meeting was some of the bloodiest fighting of the Civil War. The intersection near the proposed site isn’t exactly pristine. There’s already […]
Less than 17 months after being sentenced for sex-related crimes with four of his students, former Charlottesville High School choir director Jonathan Spivey has been freed from jail.
Now that we’re all accustomed to having a LEED-gold-certified transit center at one end of the Downtown Mall, we’ll be getting a second LEED-gold-certified bus facility to go with it. The new one, a maintenance and operations facility on Avon Street Extended, will be less high-profile. Still, Charlottesville Transit System and city officials want the […]
Dear Ace: I have been trying to get my “annual free credit report” online. All the links seem to want money or sell me services I do not want or need. What gives here? Is one really able to get their free report online for free or is this just another scam to clip you […]