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 “I ain’t gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin’s never gonna be alright nohow,”

Limbs collected: Approximately 400 loads, or 12,000 cubic yards* Manpower: 12 in-house employees and 3 contract drivers Time spent so far: 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, 3 weeks total Vehicles used: 7 dump trucks, 2 knuckleboom trucks, 4 pickup trucks Additional equipment used: 2 chainsaws Time needed for project completion: 4 weeks […]

    It became difficult almost immediately to make heads or tails of how Bush administration lawyer and law professor John Yoo’s appearance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs should proceed. He came to speak about his book on executive power, Crisis and Command, but was asked repeatedly by members of his audience to speak about his […]

Dear Ace: What’s up with that carousel at the east end of the Downtown Mall? I’ve never seen another one like it.—Merrily-Going-Around-Charlottesville That’s because, according to New York/London appraisers Masterson-Gurr-Johns Inc., the little blue carousel on our mall is “the last known kiddy carousel in this country of its type.” The attraction, featuring seven painted […]

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recently slapped second-year University of Virginia student Seth Kaye in the face. Not literally, but Kaye said that was how he felt when he awoke to an e-mail outlining a letter Cuccinelli sent to the state’s public colleges on March 4. READ MORE Click here to read this week’s Odd […]

This budget season marks the last for outgoing City Manager Gary O’Connell, and it won’t be a pleasant one.

With the exception of a slip of the tongue by Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Chairman Mike Gaffney

Well, it looks like it’s kind of a bad news/good news situation for newly elected Governor Bob McDonnell. On the downside, his carefully cultivated campaign image—which presented him as a sensible, well-coiffed, middle-of-the-road pragmatist—is in complete tatters, destroyed by a series of mean-spirited, politically tone-deaf moves against Virginia’s lesbian and gay community. On the plus […]

During the Jefferson Area Tea Party’s February meeting at Timberwood Grill, Keith Drake, chairman of the Albemarle Truth in Taxation Alliance, made a few introductory remarks. “It’s a lot of fun being a Tea Party patriot these days!” said Drake, who added that he was having a ball “rabble-rousing, bringing us back to our founders’ […]

Musicals are often brushed off as fluffy escapism, and yet the most-enduring ones—from Puccini’s popular operas to Sondheim’s Into The Woods—are about celebrating the frivolity and freedom of youth. That is, until the dread sets in. Cabaret is within this canon and the script is as germane with its politics and rhetoric as it was […]