It has been a difficult two weeks for former Virginia Governor and Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tim Kaine, and, by the look of it, things are not going to get better any time soon. “It appears that it’s going to be a job and a half,” as Virginia Delegate Kenneth Plum put it to […]
Last year, Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize for her play Ruined. Now Live Arts has revived Nottage’s 2003 play Intimate Apparel, set in 1905,
The Belmont-Carlton Neighborhood Association (BCNA) finally got to speak its mind on what many consider the severe noise problem in Belmont’s commercial zone
Hall of Fame Head Coach Debbie Ryan has seen some pretty spectacular players during her 33 years at the helm of Virginia women’s basketball. Cathy Grimes. Donna Holt. Dawn Staley. They won national accolades, set records in their time, and had their numbers retired. Yet none of them scored as many points as current senior […]
UVA President John Casteen has been highly successful in raising money for the University. Last September, despite the struggling economy, UVA raised $2 billion and it’s now in the home stretch to reach its goal for its $3 billion capital campaign. Evidently, Casteen really likes fundraising. In fact, sometime in September, just one month after […]
The new batch of McGuffey Art Center members have put together a solid show to introduce themselves, and the artists honor the building’s roots as an elementary school, with, among others, Peter Krebs’ skyscapes presenting views you might see at recess, and Amber Zavada’s earnest earthwork constructions lining the halls. “Aquarian Woman” and “Soul […]
So Ace, apparently the UVA Medical School has a department devoted to reincarnation studies?—Sam Sarrah For the record, Ace is skeptical about reincarnation. It’s not that he’s never had mystical experiences of a past life; it’s just that his seem to indicate that, once upon a time, he was either Sam Spade or Chubby […]
At its first meeting of 2010 on January 4, City Council considered an amendment to the city’s noise ordinance that would decrease the allowable levels in commercial Belmont from 75 decibels to 55 after 11pm. Last summer, Belmont residents voiced concerns about possibly adding more noise, among other things, to an already noisy corridor when […]
“As we are going to enter this General Assembly session, I would say the mood on the budget is uncertainty and apprehension,”
The list of potential cost savings from the smoking ban is long: lower rates of fire, general liability, unemployment and workers’ compensation insurance; better worker retention; and less wear and tear on carpets, paint and HVAC systems. The anecdotal evidence and public conjecture about the relative revenue to be generated from smokers versus nonsmokers is […]