So you might not have heard it here first, but regrettably, the firing of Dave Leitao on a Monday afternoon couldn’t have come at a worse time in our production cycle. Dave Leitao’s sideline demeanor raised questions, though more baffling were his wildly varied rotations and his quick hook if players made mistakes. All around, […]
Dear Ace: I am engaged to a beautiful young woman but am having second thoughts about our future together. For example, I prefer to go down to the Mudhouse and purchase a fine, handmade double cappuccino as my morning brew, while she actually prefers to mix up some jarred, mutant instant coffee at our apartment, […]
We’re now almost a quarter of the way through our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE. And we’ve started to notice a trend: The more things change, the more they stay the same—at least in the past decade or so. The Cavaliers get a new basketball […]
A photo caption in the March 17 cover story [“Battling again”] misidentified the location where Orange County Supervisor Teri Pace was photographed. The photo was taken at a site Pace suggests would be a good alternative for the proposed Wal-Mart.
If the only stupid question is the one not asked, then Danny Schmidt, a Charlottesville expatriate and a founding father of the local folk scene, is thumbtack sharp, a songwriter with the curviest question marks. Former local Danny Schmidt trots out his finest tunes for the esteemed Red House Records label on Instead the Forest […]
On Middle Cyclone, Neko Case refines and deepens lessons learned from country, the singer/songwriter tradition and the off-center pop art of her sometimes band, the New Pornographers. With a terseness that nonetheless gives room for metaphor explorations and her discreetly eloquent musicians, Case twists the usually sleepy singer/songwriter style, lacing its romance with verbal timebombs […]
The City of Charlottesville and the Virginia Department of Transportation nominally won in a circuit court hearing last week over a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, but the victory may be pyrrhic depending on what Judge Jay Swett decides during a May 19 hearing over the merits. Meadowcreek Parkway […]
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION Assessed value: $342 million Acres: 4,766 Notable holdings: Boar’s Head Inn and Birdwood Golf Course; North Fork Research Park; Fontaine Research Park; Morven Farm; 18 residential properties; 14 apartment buildings; 18 office buildings; two other hotels; one former hospital; and five restaurants. The UVA Foundation, which manages the taxable real estate […]
DR. CHARLES HURT Virginia Land Company Assessed value: $132 million* Acres: 3,155 Notable holdings: Fray’s Grant, Pavilions at Pantops, Advance Mills Farms, Mink Creek Estates, Montgomery Ridge. In 1961, Virginia Land Company was founded by Dr. Charles Hurt, a 1954 graduate of the UVA School of Medicine. Much of Hurt’s assets are in undeveloped land, […]