New D.C. passenger train makes first local stop
“Isn’t this the darndest thing? I broke my foot for this occasion,” Meredith Richards told a large crowd at the Amtrak station off Main Street last Wednesday, gesturing to a […]
Sound choices
Ace, Charlottesville’s FM dial has put a spell on me, and I can’t get no satisfaction—or relief, for that matter. Mostly, I just don’t know where to go for what […]
It's a buyer's market for country manors
If you’ve been putting off buying that seven bedroom, nine bathroom country manor with several hundred acres of land, you might want to stop procrastinating: It’s a buyer’s market. Built […]
Crozet prepares for tough redevelopment discussions
There are plenty of contentious issues at stake, but it was nonetheless a calm affair when dozens of Crozet residents turned out to Western Albemarle High School
DMV may offer meatless license plates
To the likes of “Horse Enthusiast” and “University of North Carolina” (wtf?), the Virginia DMV may someday add “Vegetarian” to the list of specialty license plates available to drivers registering […]
Humans began changing climate 7,000 years ago
When William Ruddiman stepped away from the classroom in 2001, he expected to be more retired by now.
Baseball gives Hoos something to cheer for
Exhausted by the annual Al Groh firing watch? Not geeked up about Tony Bennett’s low-scoring brand of basketball? Just because fall has barely arrived doesn’t mean it’s too early to […]
U2, with Muse; Scott Stadium; Thursday, October 1
“My body’s now a begging bowl,” Bono sang at the end of U2’s two-and-a-half hour show, “that’s begging to get back, begging to get back to my heart, to the […]
Play time with Clinton Johnston
The cast of Othello is working at the 12th Street Taphouse. Desdemona watches her tables, brings burgers and pints of beer to customers. Roderigo, the man secretly in love with […]
Twenty years of local news and arts in the spotlight
“If music be the food of love, play on,” says Orsino in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a local production of which we praised in 2007 for its direction, musical numbers and […]