"I am just worn out"
December 12 is the last day for Noah Schwartz, executive director of the Charlottesville Redevelopment Housing Authority (CRHA). After three years at the agency, he is leaving the area to […]
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 […]
Why Roc-a-fella when you can rock ’em all?
Hip-hop’s most powerful tycoon also has the largest lyrical Rolodex in the game
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 […]
Stark's Goode attack titillating but substance-lite
Mike Stark is at it again. The UVA law student by day and GOP-stalker by night helped sink George Allen’s foundering re-election campaign in 2006 by getting dragged out of […]