When it comes to regional transit, what the General Assembly gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. This year the Assembly passed legislation to permit Charlottesville and Albemarle County to create a Regional Transit Authority, yet simultaneously denied the RTA the option of raising money through an increase in the local sales […]
An hour before the convening of the county’s Democratic caucus on May 11, the two candidates for the Board of Supervisors from the Samuel Miller District—pharmacist Madison Cummings and architect Lucia Phinney—stood in the foyer of the County Office Building and watched as Albemarle Democratic Committee Chair Fred Hudson fingered a silver dollar he was […]
Dear Ace, What’s up with the Buckingham Branch train (which has, like, a total of five cars) which is forever parked on the tracks in front of the Transit Center? I get a lungful of diesel nearly every day I walk across the bridge on Avon Street…That’s how often the thing is sitting there idly […]
Lenin returning triumphantly to Finland Station. Napoleon plotting his phoenix-like second act from the Isle of Elba.
We’re ready to turn our volume knobs to the max for week No. 19 of our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. This week, a pair of locally spawned bands that every music fan should be proud to call our own (even if we call ’em […]
The commercial strip on Belmont’s Hinton Avenue has seen steady development in the past few years.
It is no accident that David Dwyer’s set design for Tartuffe incorporates dramatic, gilded picture frames that stretch from the stage to the Live Arts balcony. Like the title character of Molière’s play, the frames are attractive on the outside and empty on the inside. They are bloated, eye-grabbing symbols of hypocrisy, so it makes […]
Stephen Malkmus (left) of Pavement, No. 26 Things are going to get loud. And I don’t strictly mean musically speaking, though we have our fair share of the really noisy stuff on this list—from the nastiest instrumental metal to the soundtrack for a long-gone underground venue. We’ve got plenty of the quiet stuff, too—extinct local […]
“A lot of doctors have writer’s block,” says Dr. Daniel Becker, “but they all have stories and they all tell stories.” Think about that the next time you describe your odd symptoms to your physician—they might just end up in her next book. In addition to being the director of UVA’s Center for Biomedical Ethics […]
Amazon.com announced on May 6 its plans for a pilot program involving five universities to test its new device, Kindle DX. Among them: UVA’s Darden School of Business, the only business school chosen. “The graduate business school arena is quite different from the undergraduate schools participating in the program,” says Ken White, vice president of […]