C-VILLE 20: Bodies at work

Connective tissue Readers name the final body worker We’ve identified 19 locals who impress and intrigue with their body work (and their body of work), but there’s one profile missing. That’s where you come in. We want to hear from you. Who’s working with or on the human form that you think we should know […]

String of Pearls

Pearls are born out of irritants, things we’d rather do without. Some meddling molecule works its way into an oyster and makes a mess of things, and so the oyster does what any respectable venue ought to: It seals the intruder off, locks it up and throws away the key.

Yellow Crystal Star with Dickhearse: A Discourse on Dick Horse and Myceum

On a muggy but bearable Wednesday evening, the sun set sharply through the windows of The Bridge, and the music started. After the framed photos of Nubar Alexanian’s recreated Abu Ghraib were removed from the walls, the fairly fledgling local act Myceum—consisting of Scott Ritchie, a crickity keyboard and an orchestra of pedals—flooded the room […]

The seven year scratch

Dear Ace: Our well-known local author, Rita Mae Brown, writes about cats solving mysteries. There is another woman named Lilian Jackson Braun (note the spelling) who also writes about feline sleuths. Two women whose last names are so similar writing mysteries starring cat detectives—is this the most mind-boggling coincidence ever, or what?—M.E. Yow M.E.: Ace […]

Correction from June 10 issue

Due to a production error, the caption in the June 10 Restaurantarama [“Foodie forum”] misidentified the person in the photograph as Jaison Burke. The photograph is of Tyler Teass. Our apologies to both Mr. Burke and Mr. Teass for the mix-up.

City, realtors not eye-to-eye on signage

To get the word out about her client’s property, Mary Leavell, a local real estate agent with Keller Williams, is a big fan of using off-site signs—those placards that point, usually with brightly colored arrows, to property for sale off the beaten path. “The stats I’ve seen from the National Association of Realtors is that […]

UVA drives increased bus ridership

Since September, monthly ridership on the Charlottesville Transit Service (CTS) has been up on average 15 percent over the previous year. We can guess why, right? With gas prices boiling over at $4 a gallon, more and more people are leaving the car at home and hopping on the bus. Except we’d be wrong. What […]

Barking ordinance's greatest hits

On June 11, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved a measure meant to silence incessantly barking dogs in the urban area of the county. Passed by a 4-2 vote, the measure makes it against the law “to harbor an animal which disturbs the peace and quiet” of anyone in the county except those who […]