Off Fifth Street, about 30 new homes and twice as many townhouses in the Brookwood subdivision cling to the slopes overlooking Rock Creek. Earlier this year, dirt and construction debris washed downhill across the Rivanna Trail and into the creek, but Southern Development has apparently addressed the problem. Brookwood entered the fifth of six construction […]
Let’s be honest with each other, Charlottesville: The only thing that a “new year” means is that your old calendar is no good. When you peel the shrink wrap from your new 2009 Desk or Wall Calendar—decorated with pictures of Labrador puppies or Batman or swimsuit models—you’ll have 365 small, white boxes to fill with […]
Roughly 2 million years ago, the human brain underwent a tremendous growth spurt,
Dear Ace: When they make the snow at Wintergreen, where does all the water come from, and how does it get onto the slopes? I’ve read some unsavory things about the water used in snow making at other ski slopes.—Dwight Stuff Dwight: Ace works on a pretty low budget here at the C-VILLE office, so […]
There’s a long list of desperate campaign tactics that we here at the Odd Dominion like to call “Things that never work.”
The second phase of UVA’s Alderman Road replacement project is going vertical. David Neuman, University architect,
Have we seen the start of a new tradition? On December 12 at around midnight, a group of 1,000-plus students flooded Clemons Library for a party phenomenon known as a flashmob. Music was blasted from a small boom box. For a few minutes, raucous dancing ensued, capped by a group rendition of “The Good Ole […]
For years, rumors have circulated among Westhaven residents that redevelopment was coming—whether they liked it or not. But now that redevelopment is imminent, residents of Westhaven and the rest of the city’s public housing sites have some assurances that they will not be merely pawns in the process, thanks to a Residents’ Bill of Rights […]
The latest casualty of the nation’s economy is Innisfree World Artisans, joining the list of closing businesses on the east end of the Downtown Mall with Sage Moon and Migration galleries. Innisfree will officially shut its doors on January 30. The store is an outlet for Crozet’s Innisfree Village, a community of mentally challenged adults, […]
Chris Schooley, until recently a leader in Stonehaus’s Belvedere project off Rio Road East