We have a budget [April 24]

State lawmakers reconvened yesterday to take final action for the 2008 General Assembly regular session, passing a two-year, $77 billion budget and giving Governor Tim Kaine the power to appoint his own nominee to the state corporation commission, according to today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Irish eyes aren’t smiling

What’s up, Ace? I was at McGrady’s this weekend and noticed a St. Patty’s Day poster above my table with horrible grammar. Who makes those signs?—Eddie Torre Eddie: Firstly, how nice of you to inquire about Ace; so few people actually stop to consider the (albeit handsome) faceless man behind these words you read each […]

"No Mirrors"

Rarely do you go to an art show and not know how the image in front of you was made. Paintings, ceramics, drawing—these things we can understand. But “smoke on paper”? It takes a good search of Les Yeux du Monde to find a list of the media involved in Rob Tarbell’s latest show. Tarbell’s […]

Local news, defined [April 19]

Think that the carefully combed coiffure of NBC29 weekend anchor Matt Talhelm seemed particularly crisp at 6pm? In a press release issued hours before the premiere, NBC29 announced that the station would unveil Central Virginia’s first local news broadcast in high definition digital video, the culmination of five years of work and $3 million. No […]

Correction from April 15 issue

Due to a reporting error, last week’s feature story [“We’re with the bands”] improperly identified Steve West as the original drummer of Pavement. West replaced original drummer Gary Young following the release of Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted.

Man on a mission

It was a cold day in early December when Covenant Church pastor Harold Bare received an urgent e-mail from COMPASS. The troubled shelter group had leased the Hope Community Center in the 10th and Page neighborhood from Bare’s nonprofit, the Hope Foundation, during the month of November. But they had yet to pay rent and […]