When Southern Cal’s players gaze into the Cavalier Nation on Saturday, they will find no sign of bravado, insults or irony. Daddy Hoo is tired of your signs, regardless of whether they praise or malign. Administrators sent out an e-mail to all University students last week that lauded “the passionate support” of the student body […]
When Southern Cal’s players gaze into the Cavalier Nation on Saturday, they will find no sign of bravado, insults or irony. Daddy Hoo is tired of your signs, regardless of whether they praise or malign. Administrators sent out an e-mail to all University students last week that lauded “the passionate support” of the student body […]
When Dave Matthews Band took the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday,
Mary Motley Kalergis, a Charlottesville photographer who’s carved herself a fairly wonderful
As proudly goofy members of the punk-pop church, the Black Kids have neither profound gloom nor shocking musical innovations to impress the sort of hipsters mildly amused by musicians supporting their tales of temporary passion with big beats, old-style synthesizers and background singers echoing their leader with deadpan sarcasm. Rather, the Kids’ sarcasm is a […]
Charlottesville Newsplex, the TV station that operates CBS 19, ABC 16 and Fox 27, is pushing back the timeline for moving operations to 2307 Hydraulic Rd., but General Manager Brad Ramsey, who took the reins in July, says that the project is sill moving forward. “We’re considering all of our options, I guess is the […]
Albemarle County finally released its second quarter building report last week, and, as expected, numbers are way down. Only 266 building permits for new residential housing units were issued in the first six months of 2008, putting this year on pace for the lowest amount of new construction since the Weldon Cooper Center started keeping […]
Developer Oliver Kuttner has been spending most of his time in Lynchburg lately. “I have 750,000 square feet in Lynchburg,” says Kuttner, talking on his cell phone while standing in one of his Lynchburg properties. “I’m down here every day.” The city Board of Architectural Review decided that this addition and carriage way for cars […]
In the end, the city approval of its portion of the Meadowcreek Parkway came down to a technicality, one so small that three of five city councilors couldn’t say no. On Monday, August 18, after a dozen speakers implored them not to, councilors David Brown, Satyendra Huja and Julian Taliaferro gave the tiny nudge necessary […]
Funding crunch Two-year state operating budget: $76 billionAnnounced state spending cuts: $49 million, over three yearsCity operating budget, FY 2009: $127 millionCity budget deficit FY 09: $1.8 million Governor Tim Kaine last week announced that nothing was off the table for spending cuts—including the usual sacred cow of education—in order to balance the state budget […]