The Obama race, by the precincts

Though the Fifth District elected Perriello, if the presidential election were decided by our 22 localities, John McCain would be our president and Sarah Palin might be having a conversation with the real Nicholas Sarkozy. But at least our area went with the winner. Here’s how Albemarle County and Charlottesville broke down. No big surprises—Stone […]

Heavy Hitters

Top Donors: The Races     Top Donors Across All Campaigns         Rank Name Amount City Employer/Occupation Donated to 1. (tie) E. Renee Grisham $14,800 North None/Homemaker Clinton, Perriello,       Garden   Warner, Obama 1. (tie) John Grisham $14,800 North Self employed/Writer Clinton, Warner,       Garden   Perriello, […]

Charlottesville’s biggest donors

229 locals who gave $2,300 or more to this year’s candidates Name Total City Employer/ Donated to   donations   Occupation   Ranjit Ahluwalia $6,900 C’ville Silver Point Capital/ Perriello, Obama       Senior Analyst   Sara Harris Ahluwalia $6,900 C’ville Silver Point Capital/ Perriello, Obama       Attorney   Janice Aron $6,900 […]

O brother, who art thou?

Ace: I’m gonna have to ask you again. Who is “Rives” of Rives Park?—Parker Nosey Parker: Ace has never told you this, but he has a brother. A younger brother, to be exact. One who is mildly successful in his own right; he has a job, he’s in decent health, and he always drives the […]

How the West was won

Playwright, novelist and essayist Pearl Cleage has been feted by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the staff of the Kennedy Center. Her universal appeal resides in her candid and poetic interpretations of gender, race, domestic violence and self-determination in America. Flyin’ West, Cleage’s 1992 play, explores these themes in the context of four African-American female […]

Footloose, not "Fancy" free

You know those two-for-one video sets available at Wal-Mart? Two movies for under $10? Usually, one of them seems really appealing and the other, well, you could maybe see yourself pulling it off the shelf on a rainy day… The “2 Worlds 2 Voices” might’ve been that way—except both Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson are […]

Girl on girl action

It’s a massacre in mascara…a grunting, groaning grip-up…a titanic tussle between ferocious femme fatales! To wrestle—excuse me, wrassle—with the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, the menacing collection of palm-smacking, bone-cracking beauties, you simply need to be a woman. But to win? Oh, my darlings, you must be ruthless. For exclusive video from filmmaker  Brian Wimer’s upcoming […]

The man with the CLAW

“Some of those early crowded CLAW days, you’d have to show up an hour early and get a space,” says local photographer Billy Hunt. “You could not move from that space for the entire event because it was just a big ol’ box of sweaty, crazy sardines. “Now it’s more comfortable, but I really do […]

CLAW gets reel

You can’t have a frenzy nowadays without it being part media frenzy, and local filmmaker Brian Wimer has CLAW in his sights. At the November 7 release party for Billy Hunt’s A CLAW to Remember, Wimer will also sell copies of CLAW: Women Getting a Grip, the first of two short films documenting the local […]