Belmont, Fontaine lower late-night volume to 65 decibels
“I am disappointed because I thought it should have been down further,” said Belmont resident Shirley Shotwell
"Race and Repair" brings together UVA students and Charlottesville community
On most days, the Quality Community Council (QCC), a grassroots coalition located in a small space on West Main Street, attacks tangible problems facing Charlottesville’s most troubled neighborhoods—voter education, affordable […]
Calls for school funding dominate Albemarle budget hearing [with video!]
As Albemarle resident Ellen Climo told the county’s Board of Supervisors last week during the first public hearing on the county’s proposed budget: “I don’t think there’s anyone here tonight […]
STREB: RAW; Friday, March 5; The Paramount Theater
Following Friday night’s performance by STREB, I walked to the edge of the stage where the eight dancers were perched and one by one squeezed their calves and biceps. With […]
Answer at Once: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah Park, 1934-1938; University of Virginia Press; 174 pages
Interest in a “simpler time” is nothing new. But revived awareness of the primitive Southern mountaineer has touched a new generation of musicians and fashionistas that look to their legacy […]
From "YMCA" to "Why MCP?"
Winter may have slowed the day-to-day routine of locals, but it certainly didn’t freeze some residents’ opposition to what they consider the destruction of McIntire Park.
Nixon's Nixon; Hamner Theater; Through March 13
Russell Lees’ Nixon’s Nixon is an animalistic powerplay in the manner of McClure’s The Beard and Mamet’s Oleanna; two hungry beings in a single room, both jockeying for the upper […]
Still no contract for Martha Jefferson redevelopment
During a 2008 meeting with neighborhood residents, Martha Jefferson Hospital spokesperson Steve Bowers said that a rough credit economy could potentially make for a smoother redevelopment of the hospital’s current […]
Hostel territory
Dear Ace: Some friends of mine are passing through Charlottesville, but I don’t have enough room in my apartment to put them up for the weekend, and their shoestring budget—to […]
Charlottesville and Albemarle are locked in a battle over $2.6 million in school funding. Who will come to the breaking point first?
In November 2009, when the Albemarle County School Board sat at a table with Delegate Rob Bell and informally gave him the nod to ask the 2010 General Assembly to […]