With the Landmark Hotel still serving as the city’s largest monument to failed accomodations, it bears asking whether Charlottesville needs another hotel, no matter the size. Then again, for Whit Graves, maybe size matters after all. The Alcove condos—which sit in the thick of UVA traffic near the corner of Wertland and 14th streets, […]
As Albemarle County whittles away at a budget, community relations director Lee Catlin wrote last week in a press release that the county asked multiple community agencies “to assess the impacts of a five-percent and 10-percent funding reduction from the County.” The same day, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Board President Anthony Townsend called a press conference […]
Did Peter van der Linde fight the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority into a settlement stalemate of sorts, or vice versa? This much we know: Months after the RSWA filed an amended complaint against the recycling center director to the tune of a $30 million racketeering charge, the RSWA came to settlement terms last week with […]
Academia has many perks, but few of them are as heavily romanticized as the sabbatical.
Total student population University of Virginia: 21,057 University of Michigan: 56,857 (all campuses) Total operating budget University of Virginia: $2.25 billion (through June 2010) University of Michigan: $5.42 billion (all campuses), $1.5 billion overseen by Sullivan in 2009 Number of employees University of Virginia: 15,128 full-time University of Michigan: 9,266 instructional staff; 30,654 non-instructional (all […]
Things are heating up with regards to the noise issue in Belmont. Although official discussion has been deferred until February, City Council will hold a special session this Thursday, where the Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (BCNA) is expected to hand down recommendations on what a noise ordinance could entail. Belmont restaurant and music hall Bel Rio […]
On Tuesday, January 12, somewhere in Richmond, Tim Kaine breathed a very shallow sigh of relief.
“Most American writers seem to have forgotten how to write about big issues,” Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways wrote in the February issue of Mother Jones. “As if giving two shits about the world has gotten crushed under the boot sole of postmodernism.” Genoways’ concerns are as artistic as they are practical: Not giving […]
Hey Ace, whatever happened to the “naked guy” at the Phish concert? Did they kick him out? (It was freezing that night!) Give him a jacket? Give him backstage passes?—Phishin’-in-Charlottesville Although you’d think that streaking and the Phish live concert experience would go together like milk and cookies, the appearance of the naked guy […]