Now that the “surge” is “working,” there appears to be a surge of disinterest in (or outright indifference to) the war in Iraq. Well, leave it to The Virginia Quarterly Review—which, as regular readers know, takes flying leaps beyond the usual literary journal parameters—to get the lump back in your throat, and, if you’re so […]
Now that the “surge” is “working,” there appears to be a surge of disinterest in (or outright indifference to) the war in Iraq. Well, leave it to The Virginia Quarterly Review—which, as regular readers know, takes flying leaps beyond the usual literary journal parameters—to get the lump back in your throat, and, if you’re so […]
On the right nights, the underprepared bands and overqualified bands share the same small crowds. Roughly a dozen people attended last Tuesday’s gig at The Bridge, and half were the musicians—the four amiable dudes in Alabama’s Baak Gwai, and opening performers Dirt Eater (Max Dreyer) and Jameson Zimmer, members of the defunct local band Love […]
Maria’s husband worked two jobs to help pay rent, to buy food and other necessities. Maria, who prefers not to have her last name printed, says he was working one day in late September, when police approached him. Now, he’s being held at Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville. Maria and their 8-year-old-daughter have not seen […]
Dear Ace: Is there a place in Charlottesville where you can get laser tattoo removal? (Not that I want to or anything…)—Tom E. Lee Tom: For years, Ace wore only pants. Never Bermuda shorts, never running shorts, never even a bathing suit. He’d never moon passers-by, never undress with anyone in the room (unless it […]
For the hardcore, old school, half-sloshed and hard-of-hearing Replacements fanatic, Rhino’s recent remastering run-through of the legendary Minneapolis quartet’s entire back
A few weeks ago, I spent all day waiting for the Houston postal service to deliver my copy of Red Letter Year from an office in Charlottesville, a package mailed overnight because the only reliable thing about the mail here is its inability to arrive on time. And the record came not a day too […]
Due to a data entry research error, we mistakenly identified Oliver Kuttner as owner of one of the condos in Lewis & Clark Square in last week’s cover story [“Walls of shame,” September 30, 2008]. As Kuttner explained to us, at one time he was a “quarter-owner of the whole building,” but at present he […]
Many people move to Crozet for the small town feel—so many that the town is having to lose part of its small town charm.
With a month to go before the election, you’ve probably pulled into the work parking lot with that Obama O on the side of your car or watched the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview on YouTube in your cubicle. But you might want to be careful if your boss’ politics run the other way: Virginia law […]
Just a few months ago, Terry McAuliffe, as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, was talking about Barack Obama’s “Latino problem” and accusing the Obama campaign of overhyping Hillary Clinton’s RFK assassination gaffe. But last week, McAuliffe was in Charlottesville hyping Obama’s health care plan. “I love Barack Obama, and it’s very important that we win this […]