Dear Ace: Whatever happened to Sparky’s Flaw? Was it fixed?—Dylan Bobbit Dylan: When a pop rock band incorporates a “flaw” into its name, it immediately becomes fodder for bad jokes like yours. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Flaw boys debuted their new name—Parachute VA—on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. As […]
Dear Ace: Whatever happened to Sparky’s Flaw? Was it fixed?—Dylan Bobbit Dylan: When a pop rock band incorporates a “flaw” into its name, it immediately becomes fodder for bad jokes like yours. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Flaw boys debuted their new name—Parachute VA—on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. As […]
There’s an old joke among political journalists that Washington, D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people. To that delightful adage, we would like to add our own observation that it’s also like the world’s biggest high school, only with the exalted position usually reserved for the football team given instead to the debate club. Republican Rep. […]
The experience of reading the new issue of the VQR is a little like traveling across the world, if the reader could move through recent time along with space: The Winter 2009 issue is titled “Fidel’s Cuba (and the Legacy of the Cold War)” and its three central essays range from travel narrative to a […]
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 music news to jive […]
On September 11, 2006, Ralph Schultz was fired. Just a couple of days earlier, Schultz, a UVA tech guy in charge of computers and servers
Greg Casar Age: 19 Year: Sophomore Hometown: Houston, Texas Major: Politics What’s in your backpack? Laptop, laptop cord, orange highlighter, pen, class notes, beaded bracelet from Guatemala, hacky sack from Mexico, Ashes of Izalco by Claribel Alegía, dinner knife, flyer for global development major, Kant: Political Writings, Ziploc bag with half-eaten orange. C-VILLE welcomes news […]
READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Views from the stage Gravity Lounge regulars offer their perspectives on the troubled venue •A brief history of Gravity I first heard about Gravity Lounge’s financial troubles two days after manager Bill Baldwin e-mailed a two-page S.O.S. to “friend[s]” of the local concert venue and asked that they help bail […]
READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Gravity Lounge faces the music Five years in, bills remain unpaid, and despite some powerhouse concerts, the room remains half-empty. Will the Downtown venue fall? • A brief history of Gravity Two things seem certain about Gravity Lounge: 1) the depth of the space’s financial troubles, and 2) the near […]
READ MORE ON GRAVITY • Gravity Lounge faces the music Five years in, bills remain unpaid, and despite some powerhouse concerts, the room remains half-empty. Will the Downtown venue fall? • Views from the stage Gravity Lounge regulars offer their perspectives on the troubled venue Rather than attempt an authoritative list of every Gravity […]
The first time James E. Brown, III attended a Charlottesville Democratic Party mass meeting, he was turned away at the door.