In The Blood

“Suffering is an enormous turn-on,” Reverend D intones in a voice that is dark and desperate, but it’s difficult to picture: How Hester La Negrita—homeless, hungry and hunkered down under a bridge beneath graffiti she can’t read—could have seduced a young man, a junk merchant, a doctor, a welfare worker and a Reverend. And yet […]

Klarman adds to topic of the week [March 23]

Since Barack Obama’s speech last week, even C-VILLE’s editor is talking about race. So it should come as no surprise that the New York Times is quoting UVA law Professor Michael Klarman today on the subject. “Nixon talks about ‘law and order,’ which is a code term for the urban race riots and rising crime […]

Time-sensitive material [March 24]

A letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, written by one Nancy Kaplan and published today, draws a surprising comparison between the recently controversial rhetoric of Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright…

Green problems [March 22]

House Bill 239 was the great green hope of 2008: Signed into law by Governor Tim Kaine on March 4, the young law expands the definition of what makes a building "energy efficient" to include a number of different government-sponsored systems of evaluation, and offers the tantalizing possibility of tax breaks for any building that  […]