Free blacks remembered at South Lawn
“The site was discovered by accident in the 1990s, when the University was planning to expand the former B1 parking lot”
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Free blacks remembered at South Lawn
Foster site gets shadow catcher and cemetery marker
“The site was discovered by accident in the 1990s, when the University was planning to expand the former B1 parking lot”
Twenty years of local news and art in the spotlight
We’re now into the third 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, in light of recent news from the […]
First Street Church nears groundbreaking
It’s been almost two years since Hollywood director and UVA grad Tom Shadyac purchased the 1839 church that sits on the corner of First and Market streets with the intention of developing a day shelter for area homeless. “It was really neat to see how the town had grown, how the Downtown corridor had come […]
Will Obama mortgage plan have local impact?
In the first quarter of 2008, the Federal Reserve estimated there were almost 55 million mortgages nationally worth $10 trillion.
Who’s really wasting ratepayer money?
The agenda said the nearly two dozen people gathered at a long table in City Space on March 3 from the four local boards that control the water supply were there to discuss a set of task force recommendations about maintaining the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir. Hah. As usual, the real issue the city and […]
Saturday night fighting in Fluvanna
To knock a man out takes a combination of strength, precision and luck. You have to hit him in the right place, and if you do he’ll go down, no matter who he is. Getting knocked out doesn’t hurt. “It’s a good feeling, actually,” boxing great Floyd Patterson once said. “It’s not painful, just a […]
Seeking escape, Minor sues Danielson over Downtown hotel project
Halsey Minor, the former local boy who made a fortune in California during the dot-com boom,
Rich dreams
Dear Ace: Where do celebrities stay overnight when they come to Charlottesville?—Steve “Papa” Razzi Steve: What kind of celebrities do you mean? Famous local detectives prefer to take a load off at Miller’s, but only if someone forgets to check the men’s bathroom at closing. But if you’re referring to out-of-town celebrities like Jessica Simpson, […]
Clarification from the February 24 issue
The February 17, 2009, Working Pour column on Pamela Margaux unintentionally implied that her husband, Claude Thibaut, was still employed by the Kluge Estate Winery. In fact, he left their employment in 2005.
Virginia GOP + technology = high comedy
You would think that, following the notorious e-mail escapades of page-pawing Congress-creep Mark Foley (a scandal which featured our all-time favorite non-carpentry-related use of the phrase “get a ruler and measure it for me”), Republicans would be at least slightly circumspect when using (and abusing) these newfangled intertube technologies. But, with the national GOP currently […]