Snow way out
With Downtown Charlottesville receiving 23" of snow by Saturday night, the trouble was truly knee-deep.
Whitehead gets national nod for hassling Perriello
It took just 60 steps for John Whitehead, head of the Rutherford Institute, to earn national notoriety as Keith Olbermann’s “worst person in the world.” Sixty steps is what Congressman Tom Perriello estimates to be the distance between the front door of his office in the Glass Building and the sidewalk where protestors can legally […]
Mike London is new head coach
Part of the pleasure of sports is the nakedness of its emperors. The head football coach might be the highest paid employee at a university, but for him there is no such thing as tenure. After a disappointing season, and another loss against rival Virginia Tech, Al Groh was fired and UVA hired Mike London […]
It's a UVA tweetiverse
You might not have heard the UVA Chapel bells ringing at 3:07pm last Wednesday, but within minutes, you might have seen on the UVA Fine Arts Library’s Twitter account (UvaArtsLib)
City Council approves interchange design
The Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) is one step closer to becoming a reality.
Tracking stimulus money locally
While the benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. the stimulus package, are being debated in Congress and around the country, for one city agency, that money has helped push forward important projects that would otherwise be left untouched for years. The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) was awarded close to […]
Greg Kelly steers the city’s freshest art space
Greg Kelly takes his time making coffee in a silver pot in his little Belmont house. He’s talking about what it means to be an artist, something that had been on his mind in the early part of this decade, after he’d landed in Batesville with a newly minted education in studio art. “I didn’t […]
Biscuit Run rumored to be donated as state park
The 1,200-acre parcel known as Biscuit Run is rumored to soon be donated to the state of Virginia as parkland.
Slutzky baffles the Board one last time
To build anything of note in Albemarle County—a shopping mall, a cluster of townhomes, an office park—usually requires a rezoning. Sounds simple enough, but rezoning usually requires a series of back-and-forths between developer and county planning staff as they work through a long checklist of ordinances and regulations. Then there are the numerous public meetings […]
Red dirt alert!
Construction crews broke ground on eastbound sections of Hydraulic Road to provide access to the site of a planned Whole Foods supermarket. Nighttime construction is expected to continue on westbound portions of the road through December 21. The Whole Foods on 29N will abandon its current location to occupy the new 40,000 square foot […]