Dear Ace: What’s up with that carousel at the east end of the Downtown Mall? I’ve never seen another one like it.—Merrily-Going-Around-Charlottesville That’s because, according to New York/London appraisers Masterson-Gurr-Johns Inc., the little blue carousel on our mall is “the last known kiddy carousel in this country of its type.” The attraction, featuring seven painted […]
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli recently slapped second-year University of Virginia student Seth Kaye in the face. Not literally, but Kaye said that was how he felt when he awoke to an e-mail outlining a letter Cuccinelli sent to the state’s public colleges on March 4. READ MORE Click here to read this week’s Odd […]
This budget season marks the last for outgoing City Manager Gary O’Connell, and it won’t be a pleasant one.
With the exception of a slip of the tongue by Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority Chairman Mike Gaffney
Well, it looks like it’s kind of a bad news/good news situation for newly elected Governor Bob McDonnell. On the downside, his carefully cultivated campaign image—which presented him as a sensible, well-coiffed, middle-of-the-road pragmatist—is in complete tatters, destroyed by a series of mean-spirited, politically tone-deaf moves against Virginia’s lesbian and gay community. On the plus […]
During the Jefferson Area Tea Party’s February meeting at Timberwood Grill, Keith Drake, chairman of the Albemarle Truth in Taxation Alliance, made a few introductory remarks. “It’s a lot of fun being a Tea Party patriot these days!” said Drake, who added that he was having a ball “rabble-rousing, bringing us back to our founders’ […]
Musicals are often brushed off as fluffy escapism, and yet the most-enduring ones—from Puccini’s popular operas to Sondheim’s Into The Woods—are about celebrating the frivolity and freedom of youth. That is, until the dread sets in. Cabaret is within this canon and the script is as germane with its politics and rhetoric as it was […]
Les Yeux du Monde gallery owner Lyn Warren participates in the statewide initiative “Minds Wide Open: Women in the Arts” by inviting 17 women into this month’s exhibition.
The great Virginia motivational author Napoleon Hill famously said, “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Dear Ace: I’ve been on a cinema kick since crashing The Paramount Theater’s Oscar Night Party last weekend, and I’m jonesing to get back to the celluloid buffet. Sadly, the Virginia Film Festival won’t be happening again for a while. What other noteworthy picture shows should my fellow film buffs and I be aware of […]