If you’re like me, you’ve spent the last six months in the glow of computer screens that shine slumping graphs onto your bewildered face, mumbling the day’s TED spread in your sleep and generally trying not to freak out as we ride out our sputtering economy as Amelia Earhart surely rode out her Lockheed Electra. […]
“We had cases of students urinating on another neighbor’s bushes or yelling and screaming, bonfires in their yards,”
In Debbie Ryan’s 32nd season as head coach, UVA women’s basketball team (5-2) is once again showing signs of greatness—albeit inconsistently. After the Cavaliers knocked off women’s basketball powerhouse Tennessee in Knoxville on November 17, they fell to Old Dominion in their next game. “I don’t think we got over [the Tennessee win] fast enough,” […]
What began as a simple fact-checking measure has ended in a court settlement, with C-VILLE freelancer and former staff writer Jayson Whitehead coming out on top—sort of.
In January, Overton McGehee, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, will take his talents to Richmond, where he will serve as executive director of the state Habitat for Humanity organization. The state organization works with the 51 habitat chapters in Virginia as well as working on legislation. Come January, Overton McGehee will […]
It took a couple of hours, but at a rare joint meeting on November 25, Charlottesville’s City Council was able to work out a compromise with the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors that both sides hope will appease skeptical citizens without holding up the City and county residents will pay for a $25,000 pipeline review […]
As expected, Virgil Goode did not go gently into that good night. Down 745 votes to his Democratic challenger Tom Perriello, Goode filed paperwork last week in Albemarle County Circuit Court (the home of his opponent, as required by federal law) and set in motion the recount process for the Fifth District Congressional race. Goode […]
Dear Ace: I saw that a local school was offering chances for locals to get hunting licenses. Where does one go hunting in Charlottesville? Or, where do hunting enthusiasts in Charlottesville travel to?—Tara Palin Tara: It would probably be a cheap shot to go through the duration of this article and drop all of Ace’s […]
Life is strange. It is the human condition to believe that it isn’t going to be—it’s going to just be normal. But thanks to myriad little agendas, paranoias, psychoses, gullibilities, superstitions, love, loss and loneliness, it just goes on, fascinatingly and disturbingly peculiar. Tim Taunton’s surreal, grotto-style paintings offer outright evidence of this. The works […]
Often, roots music like the a cappella gospel found on Como Now is approvingly described as raw, when in reality its perfect pitch and apt use of harmony could be more accurately categorized as sophistication that takes risks. The various soloists and ensembles of Mount Mariah Church push their voices to ragged extremes to make […]