When doves cry

Dear Ace: I saw that a local school was offering chances for locals to get hunting licenses. Where does one go hunting in Charlottesville? Or, where do hunting enthusiasts in Charlottesville travel to?—Tara Palin Tara: It would probably be a cheap shot to go through the duration of this article and drop all of Ace’s […]

Through a mirror, darkly

Life is strange. It is the human condition to believe that it isn’t going to be—it’s going to just be normal. But thanks to myriad little agendas, paranoias, psychoses, gullibilities, superstitions, love, loss and loneliness, it just goes on, fascinatingly and disturbingly peculiar. Tim Taunton’s surreal, grotto-style paintings offer outright evidence of this. The works […]

Singing in tongues

Often, roots music like the a cappella gospel found on Como Now is approvingly described as raw, when in reality its perfect pitch and apt use of harmony could be more accurately categorized as sophistication that takes risks. The various soloists and ensembles of Mount Mariah Church push their voices to ragged extremes to make […]

Gov. Nutzoid

We won’t lie—the recent conclusion of the heart-palpitatingly exciting 2008 presidential election has left us with a gaping hole in our political soul the size of Sarah Palin’s ego.

Correction from November 18 issue

Due to a proofreading error, in “Partners split over Landmark Hotel” [Development News, November 18], the phrase, “The crane was still in full swing on Monday, September 17” is off by two months. It should have read, “Monday, November 17.”

Worth looking at?

 This is not a holiday movie preview. Get that out of your head. Thank you. Yes, O.K., it is a movie preview. And it covers what’s coming to a theater near you (or annoyingly far from you) through the end of December. But this particular, peculiar, noncomprehensive list is not about “holiday” movies per se. […]

Water consumption on the rise

UVA’s sustainability efforts have been heavily publicized: O-Hill dining hall going trayless, composting food waste, recycling. Water, however, is a different story. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that while UVA claims that its water consumption has decreased for six years in a row, that period spanned from 1999 to 2005. In fact, the University’s water usage has […]

Race researcher on Obama's victory

In January of this year, UVA politics professor Vesla Weaver explained her research about voters’ perceptions of race. Now that the United States has elected its first African-American president, C-VILLE asked Weaver about what she thinks it means. “I think that along the lines of race, I found it very interesting that younger, white voters […]

Some RWSA chair applicants oppose supply plan

Once again, the 50-year local water supply plan will come under intense scrutiny as the four boards that have say-so over local water issues come together on November 25. City Council is the body that’s now balking at the plan by passing a resolution calling for several studies before moving ahead with construction of a […]