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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
U.S. Green Building Council has awarded Charlottesville’s Downtown Transit Center with a gold LEED certification.
The Virginia Quarterly review has done it again. Just as in recent years, they’ve…
It was a night full of the excitement that only the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) can bring.
The Charlottesville City School System is closer to finding a new CHS principal after last nights’s meeting with parents, teachers, staff and students at
Well, here we are again: stumbling to the end of yet another incoherent legislative session, with little to show for it but a busted deadline and a budget deficit the size of Eliot Spitzer’s “travel” expenses. This is certainly one for the Richmond record books: No agreement on fixing Virginia’s massively underfunded transportation system (that’ll […]
Dear Ace: I was down by City Hall the other day and noticed statues of three presidents sculpted into the building. Somewhat disconcerting to me was the size of James Madison; he was a pretty short guy, no? In the sculpture, he isn’t. Why?—Constance Tooshun Constance: It isn’t simply that James Madison was a “pretty short […]
Despite all the button-busting, broad-chested swagger of the steeled human sculptures that form the skyline of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay—the Orson Welles drive to destroy something immense like a planet or a media structure, or the Harry Houdini pairing of ingenuity and stubbornness, superpowers grappling with human […]