At their regular meeting last Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors voted to postpone the construction of the new Crozet Library via a plan that halts construction projects for five years. According to Mike Marshall, publisher of the Crozet Gazzette, in early November county staff put out a report warning residents and officials that the library’s […]
On November 20, as reported by the Daily Progress, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire granted a demurrer, filed by former Landmark Hotel developer Lee Danielson and his attorney, that asked to have the fraud and negligence charges removed from the lawsuit that Landmark Hotel owner Halsey Minor had filed against him. Landmark Hotel owner […]
For Becky Sims of Old Lynchburg Road, the biggest problem on her block is “feeling safe. It’s the traffic. Obviously, the police can’t keep up with the speeding, and the traffic violations. We have huge speeding issues,” she says. Old Lynchburg Road at the JPA intersection. Sims is one among many of the road’s residents […]
As during a full moon, strange things happen when Phish comes to town. Glow sticks burst forth from hidden sources. Clumps of hair mysteriously clump into dreadlocks. On Friday night, I met a man who came to a party wearing a kooky hat. Nobody knew him. He carried with him a case of Mexican beer. […]
If, when you go to the theater, you require a heaping helping of linear narrative smothered in a thick gravy of realistic character, then Live Arts’ current offering, Our American Ann Sisters, is not for you. But if you enjoy a variety of spicy tapas offering an unexpected mix of piquant flavors, then this play […]
Even as freezing rains tear autumn’s last leaves from branches, things in the city and county seem to be getting greener. Local greenies are jazzed about a $500,000 grant that’s bankrolling the Local Energy Alliance Program, an initiative that will offer loans to one out of every two homeowners to pay for efficiency upgrades—and will […]
ALLYSON MELLBERG and JEREMY TAYLOR Artists and advocates of nontoxic art materials If it’s not enough that Allyson Mellberg and Jeremy Taylor’s art focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between people and nature, consider what else they’re doing. According to Mellberg, most books about visual art focus on the kinds of toxic materials that artists should […]
December arrives, and thereby the onset of my discontented literary winter approacheth. Well, not “discontented” so much as “lacking content,” verily. Lacking inspiration, space wherein to work, and desperately needful of coaching and critique: What is a would-be writer to do, good sir? Very long, my supply of Browning and Milton will last not.—O. Veritten […]
Over one year after UVA’s Faculty Senate formed its Task Force on Scholarly Publications and Authors’ Rights, debate continues
In the 20 years that we’ve been hitting the streets over the winter holidays, we have not always taken a consistent approach. In 1990, for instance, we practically begged readers to turn away with our promise of a “Boring XMAS Issue.” But by 2006, we were fully in the spirit, putting Special Correspondent Sweet Cakes […]