Jamal Millner, Flat-pick and fingerstyle guitarist
“I have to be careful, think about closing doors and stuff like that more than anyone else does,” says Millner. Tools? A guitar, flat-pick, sometimes a slide. How did […]
Kenny Shreves, Race Car Builder at Werkstatt Charlottesville
Fire in the hole: Sometimes when he’s welding, stuff ends up burning. “It happens more often than you would think,” says Shreves. Typical workday? We’re always behind. We begin in […]
Ted Wood, Typewriter repairman at Charlottesville Office Machine Co.
The right-handed Wood says he never gets cramps in his hands, even after working on typewriters all day. Typical workday? I get here around 8:30 in the morning, and go […]
Alpha Centauri EP; Corsair
Combine Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, and Robert Heinlein and you get Corsair, one of the most rocking bands in town. The Sabbath part makes perfect sense, as the band originally […]
Just Kids; Patti Smith; Harper Collins, 290 pages
Some friendships are too beautiful for words. Fortunately, in the hands of Patti Smith, the 22-year bond between her and Robert Mapplethorpe is not one of them. But Just […]
A UVA sorority turns boarding house, while two houses stay vacant
The eight-bedroom brick mansion at 150 Madison Lane, former home to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, has been vacant since fall. The frat’s alumni board still owns the building, but […]
A look at the higher end of low-income housing
On February 1, City Council voted to raise the new supported affordable housing goal to 15 percent over 15 years
Supervisors vote down fee increases for developers
ZONING COST COMPARISON Rezoning 9 acres Compare to: Oakleigh Farm In Albemarle County: $1,020 Proposed increase to: $2,500 Difference of: $1,480 Percentage fee increase: 145% In Charlottesville: $1,500 In […]
Morgan Harrington: Questions, no answers
A day before Morgan Harrington’s family held a memorial service for their daughter at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Roanoke, Virginia State Police called a press conference to plead for […]
John Paul Jones must take account
Whatever happened to the All-American City, the Best Place to Live, the Best Place to Relocate, Tree City USA, the place—when I first moved here for graduate school in the […]