Your tax dollars, at work

Job title: Animal Control Officer. Durrer keeps the city’s animal population, both wild and domestic, under control. Has worked for the city for: 27 years Resides in: Charlottesville Best of […]

The cat in the hats

Dear Ace: Who is “Rives” of Rives Park?—Parker Nosey Parker: In these uncertain political times, it’s kind of comforting to be reminded of Virginia’s—and Charlottesville’s—rich historical, you know, history. It’s […]

Danny Shea's greatest hits

  Every gig that Danny Shea books in Charlottesville is a labor of love. From amp-melting metal from Japan to indie hip-hop to a batch of Swedish Led Zeppelin freaks, […]

Behind the music

The Girl Talk concert at Satellite Ballroom in September 2007 had all the makings of a Danny Shea-promoted event: an artist with more critical buzz than record sales; a total […]

One messy rainbow

It’s not for the elitist—to use a term now much in vogue—to judge The Bridge’s current group show. Snobbery won’t warm to the punky, screw-your-MFA attitude of some of these […]

When Tomorrow meets yesterday

Tom Tomorrow is a satirist. His “This Modern World” comics are devoted to pointing out the hypocrisy, fallacies, and spurious actions of figures in the news (usually the more conservative […]