After the hearing in Richmond, after activists and academics and law enforcement members testified to change Virginia’s marijuana laws, and after a General Assembly subcommittee struck down two bills that […]
“I am disappointed because I thought it should have been down further,” said Belmont resident Shirley Shotwell
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]