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 […]
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 […]
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)
The Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) is one step closer to becoming a reality.
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 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 […]
The 1,200-acre parcel known as Biscuit Run is rumored to soon be donated to the state of Virginia as parkland.
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 […]
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 […]
Eight games into last year’s basketball season, former UVA coach Dave Leitao and his Cavaliers had a 4-4 overall record. One year and one coach later, new guy Tony Bennett and the Wahoos find themselves holding steady at the same spot. Throw in the recent announcement of new head football coach Mike London, and it’s […]