Remember, kids: Political momentum, like Parcheesi leads and poker hands, can turn on a dime. Even the most irreversible-seeming trend can evaporate overnight, given the right combination of party complacency, candidate incompetence and voter disgust. Tea Party Patriots, as they call themselves, threatened to burn Tom Perriello, seen here at an August 11 town hall […]
The “perfect” apology, if there is such a thing, can be whittled into three pieces, each of which is well illustrated in a letter that Emily Post dreamt up for 1922’s Etiquette. READ MORE Regrets only 10 things (of dozens) that deserve an apology Dear Mrs. Neighbor, My gardener has just told me that our […]
1 Moderators for the conservative blog Free Republic allowed readers to post a slew of horrific comments on their website directed at a picture of Malia Obama. Obama was pictured in Italy, wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on it. One comment mused that the 11-year-old looked like “ghetto street trash,” where someone else […]
With 20 murders in a population of 750,000, El Paso, Texas was one of the safest cities in America in 2008. Across the border lies Juarez, a city roughly twice the size of El Paso, which in the same period saw 1,600 of its citizens murdered. This is just one among many statistics that begs […]
Daughtry’s latest album Leave This Town focuses on physical and emotional departures, but former Fluvanna High School student Chris Daughtry’s appearance at the John Paul Jones Arena marked a return home, back as a platinum-selling superstar. One of “America Idol”’s greatest successes, Daughtry and his radio-ready rock anthems ought to be perfect for a packed […]
Popular music in America seldom gives space to the kind of working men who left the textile mill of Gaston County, North Carolina, between 1927 and 1931 to record the kind of laughter made to keep them from crying over too little pay and too much work. This kind of humor—supported with guitars and banjos […]
It seems we here at C-VILLE have kind of a thing about reporting while using alternate modes of transportation. Just as this week’s cover story stems from a walk through as-yet-incomplete Hollymead Town Center, some of our favorite stories from the archives grew from walks and bike rides. Our reporters have slogged through parks and […]
Dear Ace: MySpace is played out, Facebook is getting there, and I’m ready to set up a new circle of on-the-Internet friends. Who are some of the most prevalent Tweeters in Charlottesville, and how do I become one of them?—Twit-Or-Miss-in-Charlottesville There are a number of ways to connect with the Charlottesville Twitterati. One is through […]
Nearly every song on Worn In Red’s recently released full-length, In the Offing, follows the structure of penultimate track “Mise En Abyme.” Big musical shifts come in tempo and rhythm, but volume and tone remain set to “stun.” Lyrically, In the Offing prefers to provoke questions rather than provide answers, and the vocabulary swings between […]
READ MORE • Click here for more information on pedestrian safety. On the outer fringes of Hollymead Town Center, at the corner of Grand Forks Boulevard and Perseco Lane, there is a townhouse for rent. It’s one of four units in a lonely building, stranded among the raw sites of its as-yet-unbuilt siblings. On September […]