Slowdown gives Planning Commission time to plan
Handed the giant lemon of a recession, Charlottesville’s Planning Commission hopes to squeeze lemonade.
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Slowdown gives Planning Commission time to plan
Handed the giant lemon of a recession, Charlottesville’s Planning Commission hopes to squeeze lemonade.
Clarification
The inside headline for last week’s cover story, “City missteps,” is inadvertently misleading, as it implies that the story contains more criticisms than questions about the city’s Downtown Mall rebricking project. The inside headline should have been the same one that appeared on the cover, “City misstep?”
City says let's look at racial tension—again
“I think we are all attuned to the fact that people from different racial backgrounds experience Charlottesville differently,”
UVA hires two offensive-minded coaches
After a 2008 season that gave new meaning to the word “uneven,” not to mention “maddening,” UVA football Head Coach Al Groh is adding some new blood to his staff.
Brookwood shores up runaway sediment
Off Fifth Street, about 30 new homes and twice as many townhouses in the Brookwood subdivision cling to the slopes overlooking Rock Creek. Earlier this year, dirt and construction debris washed downhill across the Rivanna Trail and into the creek, but Southern Development has apparently addressed the problem. Brookwood entered the fifth of six construction […]
The year in afterparties
Let’s be honest with each other, Charlottesville: The only thing that a “new year” means is that your old calendar is no good. When you peel the shrink wrap from your new 2009 Desk or Wall Calendar—decorated with pictures of Labrador puppies or Batman or swimsuit models—you’ll have 365 small, white boxes to fill with […]
Live Arts' Demon Barber stays barbaric
Roughly 2 million years ago, the human brain underwent a tremendous growth spurt,
Lake affect
Dear Ace: When they make the snow at Wintergreen, where does all the water come from, and how does it get onto the slopes? I’ve read some unsavory things about the water used in snow making at other ski slopes.—Dwight Stuff Dwight: Ace works on a pretty low budget here at the C-VILLE office, so […]
Breaker Moran
There’s a long list of desperate campaign tactics that we here at the Odd Dominion like to call “Things that never work.”
New dorms focus on height
The second phase of UVA’s Alderman Road replacement project is going vertical. David Neuman, University architect,