All it took was one phone call for Margo Smith to change gears. Having been to Central Australia as an anthropology graduate student in the early 1990s, Smith’s name came to the attention of a certain billionaire philanthropist whom we’ll call John Kluge. He was looking for someone to catalogue an outstanding collection of Aboriginal […]
If money is power in the realm of political campaigns, Robert Hurt is mighty powerful.
On April 12, an affidavit arrived in the clerk’s office at Augusta County Circuit Court with a confession from Ralph Leon Jackson, the 56-year-old Stuarts Draft resident charged with first-degree and attempted capital murder in connection with the April 5 Blue Ridge Parkway shootings. The same day, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli attended a pro-gun […]
The arrival of new UVA President Teresa Sullivan in early August has led students to resurrect the Living Wage Campaign
Dear Ace: Spring has put me in a Nietzschean mood. Where can I find a giant rock face to climb?—Der-Überbergsteiger-in-Charlottesville Ace groks ya, Friedrich. Having put himself through the kinds of dramatic highs and lows that most people never see outside of Wagnerian opera, he knows a thing or two about living on the edge, […]
Doctor John Douglas Forbes—that’s “J.D. Forbes,” to the readers of his mystery novels—will celebrate a belated 100th birthday on Friday, as part of a reunion weekend for classes of the Darden School of Business. Forbes arrived at the University of Virginia in 1954 as a professor of business history and, with Professor Forrest Hyde and […]
If you were at the Flaming Lips concert at the Charlottesville Pavilion in 2006, Thursday night’s show might have felt like a time warp.
At some point, Bob McDonnell’s high-wire balancing act is going to come to an end.
The University of Virginia Art Museum is getting ready to expand its gallery space in the Bayly Building, with a capital campaign that defies my understanding of current economic conditions. As a preview, perhaps, of all the things they’ll be able to show after expanding, their current exhibition, “Highlights from the Collection” crams a kaleidoscopic […]
One of Barack Obama’s most attractive campaign promises was that he would shift America’s military focus from Iraq (the unjust war) to Afghanistan (a war of retaliation, at least). More than a year into his presidency, it’s beginning to look like the shift—crystallized in December when he announced a troop surge and withdrawal deadline—might have […]