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 […]
We won’t lie—the recent conclusion of the heart-palpitatingly exciting 2008 presidential election has left us with a gaping hole in our political soul the size of Sarah Palin’s ego.
Due to a proofreading error, in “Partners split over Landmark Hotel” [Development News, November 18], the phrase, “The crane was still in full swing on Monday, September 17” is off by two months. It should have read, “Monday, November 17.”
This is not a holiday movie preview. Get that out of your head. Thank you. Yes, O.K., it is a movie preview. And it covers what’s coming to a theater near you (or annoyingly far from you) through the end of December. But this particular, peculiar, noncomprehensive list is not about “holiday” movies per se. […]
UVA’s sustainability efforts have been heavily publicized: O-Hill dining hall going trayless, composting food waste, recycling. Water, however, is a different story. Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that while UVA claims that its water consumption has decreased for six years in a row, that period spanned from 1999 to 2005. In fact, the University’s water usage has […]
In January of this year, UVA politics professor Vesla Weaver explained her research about voters’ perceptions of race. Now that the United States has elected its first African-American president, C-VILLE asked Weaver about what she thinks it means. “I think that along the lines of race, I found it very interesting that younger, white voters […]