Dear Ace: I heard Shenanigans is outselling Toys R Us! Can it be true?—Meryl Lynch Meryl: At first, Ace thought maybe this was a rouse. A rumor. Idle gossip, perhaps. Or maybe just a flat-out lie started to stir up trouble. (He’s nothing if not a dubious investigator.) And so, after a straight shot of […]
Dear Ace: I heard Shenanigans is outselling Toys R Us! Can it be true?—Meryl Lynch Meryl: At first, Ace thought maybe this was a rouse. A rumor. Idle gossip, perhaps. Or maybe just a flat-out lie started to stir up trouble. (He’s nothing if not a dubious investigator.) And so, after a straight shot of […]
A few songs into the Nine Inch Nails’ set at the John Paul Jones Arena last Wednesday, I found myself utterly unable to summon any authentic anger to match the brutality that frontman Trent Reznor and company dished out. C’mon, Trent: Obama just won the presidency, putting an eight-year nightmare to rest and making history […]
Due to a reporting error, the story “Better by the bottle” [October 14, 2008] referred to the “homogenization” of milk where it should have referred to “pasteurization.”
At one point during the past few months, every political prognosticator worth his or her salt had a moment when they knew, deep in their slimy, election-lovin’ guts, that the
Only chirping birds disrupted the complete silence that reigned over Hereford College on a sunny morning while sleepy students hurried to class.
The University’s multibillion dollar investments, which include the University’s endowment, lost $600 million, or 11 percent, in the first quarter of the fiscal year, according to UVA’s Investment Management Company (UVIMCO) quarter-end report. By mid-October, the policy benchmark had declined by another 20 percent. According to the report, after the initial hit, the investment pool […]
Michael Karlik Age: 20 Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia Year: Sophomore Major: Political science What’s in your backpack? Sunday’s Washington Post, cough drop, pencils, pens, class notes, two notebooks, battery, Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, water bottle, calculator, Post-It notes. C-VILLE welcomes news tips from readers. Send them to news@c-ville.com. Michael Karlik
“Cash rules everything around me,” growled the Wu-Tang Clan back in 1993. And what was true then in Staten Island is still true 15 years later in Central Virginia. Checks & Balances: It Takes All Types Charlottesville’s biggest donors Heavy Hitters Just ask Tom Perriello, who has a six-term incumbent congressman on the verge of […]
Railroads don’t have a reputation locally for cooperating with those who want to build trails over, under and alongside active tracks; railroads would rather not entice potential lawsuits onto their property. But Charlottesville’s City Trails Planner Chris Gensic wasn’t deterred from picking up the phone. “I don’t know that many people have tried calling the […]
When you’re going up against a six-term incumbent who has never won a congressional election by less than 19.5 percentage points, the best thing