Margo Smith, Curator, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection [with video!]
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 […]
Hurt dominates GOP fundraising in Fifth District race
If money is power in the realm of political campaigns, Robert Hurt is mighty powerful.
Virginia is for gun lovers
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 […]
Students say time is right to raise wages to $11.44
The arrival of new UVA President Teresa Sullivan in early August has led students to resurrect the Living Wage Campaign
Social climbers
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 […]
Darden celebrates first professor on his 100th birthday
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 […]
Flaming Lips; The Charlottesville Pavilion; Thursday, April 15
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.
Oil's well that ends well for McDonnell?
At some point, Bob McDonnell’s high-wire balancing act is going to come to an end.
Highlights from the Collection: From Rodin to Warhol; The UVA Art Museum; Through July 11
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. […]
"Graveyard of Empires: Obama's Afghanistan"; Virginia Quarterly Review; Spring 2010
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 […]