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Change. If the November election was about anything, it was about changing the political culture in Washington.

As a friend recently told me, “You can’t ride two horses with one tokhes.” For a musician like Ben Kweller, who wriggled his Levi’s into a cozy ass-groove of alt-rock at a young age, that sort of stretch is a bit more difficult.   He’s gone country! Ben Kweller saddles up a new sound on […]

We’re now into the second month of 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 the Obama bandwagon (remember, this is the paper that projected DMB’s rise to the top), and this week we revisit some old Downtown construction blues […]

New year, same legislative agenda. At least that’s the story when it comes to payday lending regulations. New laws targeting payday lenders went into effect January 1, extending repayment periods and limiting the amount of sequential loans a borrower can obtain. Lenders, however, have quickly discovered ways to get around the new law, putting frustrated […]

If you trekked to D.C. for the inauguration, you probably spotted or even purchased your fair share of commemorative Obama merchandise: the usual t-shirts, water bottles, and baby bibs; the kitschier “Shot of Hope” shot glasses and “Party like a Barack Star” thongs. None of it rare and hardly any of it valuable. Auctioneers expect […]

Last year, Wendy Fisher bought a modest, rehabbed home on Fifth Street SW for $285,000.

Despite the apparent halt in construction on the site of the future Hydraulic Road Whole Foods, the project is still progressing, says Alan Taylor of Riverbend Management, Inc., a company in the Coran Capshaw empire. “We’re still working with the city on getting final site plan approval,” he says. “Once we have that, we’ll continue […]

Harry Harding, a political and policy expert and prominent China scholar, was appointed first dean of UVA’s Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy last week.

Trevor Piersol Age: 21 Year: Junior Hometown: Richmond Major: History What’s in your backpack? The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, Integrated Chinese textbook and workbook, notebooks for environmental science and Chinese classes, T1-83 graphic calculator, cycling headlamp, Fata Morgana DVD, pack of tissues, Sweet Mint flavor Orbit gum, highlighter, six pens, three pencils, paper […]