Family and friends of Morgan Harrington gather for memorial

MORE COVERAGE RELATED TO MORGAN HARRINGTON: Virginia State Police releases new phone number for tips Morgan Harrington’s death officially ruled a homicide Morgan Harrington’s Pantera t-shirt found near 15th Street? Reward money in Harrington case not rewarded David Bass describes finding body that is likely Morgan Harrington [with video] Anchorage Farm body, still unidentified, found […]

Time after time

Hey Ace: Have you seen those peculiar timepieces —the ones with the animated sun and moon circling around the screen—that have been popping up around the Downtown Mall? My little girl found a kid-sized version in one of the Virginia Discovery Museum play zones, and later I spotted another one in the Bank of America […]

Virginia's new top dog takes center stage

All things considered, Virginia’s minty fresh new governor Bob McDonnell had about as good a first few weeks as any pearly toothed pol could ask for. He gave a platitude-filled, well-received inauguration speech, threw himself a million-dollar party, and then settled into his big comfy governor’s chair and got down to the business of reversing […]

Spirit Of The Golden Juice Reissue; F.J. McMahon; Rev-Ola Records

F.J. McMahon’s exhausted yet intense murmur was not bred in ’60s folk clubs but in Vietnam, where his tour of duty did not inspire him to write songs boiling with rage. Singing as if from a distant dimension surrounded only by discreet drums and dual guitars, McMahon instead recreates the state of mind of a […]

Gary O'Connell to work on his passion: water

After 15 years as Charlottesville City Manager, Gary O’Connell is “ready for a change.” At the end of April, O’Connell will leave his post in the city to head the Albemarle County Service Authority (ACSA) as its executive director. To what may seem like a step into a minefield—otherwise known as the ongoing debate over […]

Local leaders are pumped that high-paying government work is coming to Albemarle County. But Will the Defense Intelligence Agency payoff match the promise?

O Dear Citizen of Albemarle, I know you’re excited. The Defense Intelligence Agency is here.  We’ve been hearing about them for years: Eight-hundred twenty-eight employees descending on Albemarle County like a swarm of locusts. But these locusts will be a boon, not a plague, sowing a luscious bounty. In the words of the wise men […]