Since a consultant recommended in January that Charlottesville City Schools close one elementary school, the schools have been putting the possibility to the public. As Superintendent Rosa Atkins explained at […]
Who: Paul Long, 59 Where: Born and raised in Philadelphia. Moved to Charlottesville 11 years ago. Independent Paul Long has announced his run for a seat on City Council. On […]
When the Board of Visitors first approved the Arts Gateway to the University of Virginia in 2007, the project
Last November, Charlottesville’s City Council passed a resolution calling for a raft of studies related to the community’s 50-year water supply plan.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.