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 […]
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 […]
On a recent weekend night in Belmont, a group of four people stroll along Hinton Avenue on the way back to their SUV. Two women sport Burberry trench coats and designer scarves, and carry Coach handbags, while their male counterparts wear wool blend peacoats, ranger dark wash jeans and designer loafers or Terra Plana shoes. […]
It takes a gifted writer to charm centuries of academics and audiences alike with what are essentially dung jokes aimed at con artists.
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 […]
More than 100 days after 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was spotted on the Copeley Road Bridge
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 […]
The nation’s top public universities are cushioning the cost of college for those students who need it the least, according to a report by The Education Trust, a nonprofit organization.
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 […]
Hey Ace: Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an oak tree on the 250 bypass (heading east, on the left side of the McIntire Park interchange) that is still green and full of leaves. Driving west, it’s more of a greenish-brown. How does this happen in January, especially considering the winter we’ve been having?—Oak-K-Commuter-in-Charlottesville […]