This ain’t no Mud Club or CBGB’s, this is the Charlottesville Pavilion, and, ladies and gentlemen, as a member of the Talking Heads Class of ’77, I’m here to tell you that heaven is a place where David Byrne happens.
Mmmm, can you smell that? Yes, dear readers, that delightful effluvia of half-punched chads and grease-smeared touchscreens can mean one thing and one thing only: It’s election day! And not just any election day, either — we’re talking about the sort of seismic, epoch-defining, life-changing face-off that comes along but once in a generation. Yes, […]
In covering this town for 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of people go through changes. Friendships are made or restored. Folks change jobs or political persuasion. They get famous overnight. They throw surprise weddings. They die without warning. This week marks our 23rd visit to the archives, and we’re inspired by life’s markers: the […]
Dear Ace,What’s up with the ranking of Charlottesville as the #4 best city in America? Is that number completely arbitrary or have we been doing something wrong since we were ranked #1 in 2004?—Sly Down Dear Sly, Part of the superlative discrepancy has to do with the different parties crunching the numbers. This year Kiplinger’s […]
There’s no question that the title of the latest Virginia Quarterly Review, “The End of Ice,” is meant to be taken literally. In travelogues that chronicle experiences as divergent as ice hunters blasting away at errant icebergs in Newfoundland’s White Bay to adolescents following the chaddar, or frozen river-highway, out of a village in the […]
In his State of the University Address in February, UVA President John Casteen proclaimed the University would respond to the sagging economy and its falling endowment by innovating and re-inventing itself.
Last October, developer Richard Spurzem of Neighborhood Properties decided that going through Albemarle County’s approval process for preliminary site plans was no longer an attractive plan. Having had his plans for 187 townhouse units (part of the North Pointe megadevelopment on 29N) rejected twice by county planners, and facing the prospect of a third review, […]
Up until last month, Gloria Rockhold had reason to think she would be one of those county employees whose positions were terminated due to budget cuts.
There are obvious shortcomings to describing a visual medium in words. Hence this preview of 2009 LOOK3: Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph can only be a snapshot, and a poor one at that. It’s more like a Polaroid (RIP, Polaroid) photo that you’ll have to flap around between June 11 and June 13 before you […]
Journalistically speaking, I came of age with the Village Voice. From that paper I came up with some notion of how I wanted to do my life’s work.