It is possible to court disaster with the naming of one’s publication. Dave Eggers famously dodged this fate by going over-the-top tongue-in-cheek with his 2000 novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The anthology Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers—published locally by UVA-housed Meridian magazine and edited by faculty member Jeb Livingood—takes […]
It is possible to court disaster with the naming of one’s publication. Dave Eggers famously dodged this fate by going over-the-top tongue-in-cheek with his 2000 novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The anthology Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers—published locally by UVA-housed Meridian magazine and edited by faculty member Jeb Livingood—takes […]
A 50-year water supply plan that includes the expansion of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and the construction of a pipeline received approval by the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), though people opposing the plan say that it is not yet a done deal.
Worked for city for: 1.5 years Resides in: Buckingham County. “I am willing to travel so far because I really do love my job.”Job title: Customer service supervisor. She’s been in the position since May. “I oversee the girls, help them with any difficult customers that we have,” says TenEyck. Before coming up to the […]
Leading up to Valentine’s Day, UVA students protested Dominion’s proposal for a new coal power plant in Wise County, Virginia, including stunts on the Lawn. But what about the emission spewing steam plant on Jefferson Park Avenue? Not dealing with the coal plant in our backyard is “a curious conundrum for local environmental advocates,” says […]
It’s here at last: The report from the Commission on the Future is now. After a year’s worth of work, it has a host of recommendations. “We learned in the school of hard knocks during the early 1990s that the University cannot be all things to all people,” reads the report, composed by a group […]
Danny Oberski Year: Junior Age: 22 Major: Economics and psychology Hometown: Ashland, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Detroit Tigers baseball hat, Richard Thaler’s The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life, Andrei Shleifer’s Noise Trader Risk, eight-day old copy of The Cav Daily, three notebooks, 2008 day planner with only two entries, empty pack […]
Though police reports show that there were only eight accidents involving bicyclists in Charlottesville last year, local bike activists beg to differ.
Carmello “Pee Wee” Martinez walked into Charlottesville Circuit Court in the customary striped prison garb. Martinez, an avowed member of the “Bloods”—of Crips and Bloods gang war renown—was arrested this summer in connection with a shooting. On February 13, he was sentenced to four years in prison for the events that occurred last March when […]
Plaintiff: Kathleen E. Burg Defendant: CVS of Virginia, Inc. What’s at issue: Whether the drugstore on Long Street is responsible for Burg falling and injuring herself. According to her complaint, she went to CVS to pick up some photos and, when she turned to leave, caught her foot on “something protruding from under the counter.” […]
The House of the General Assembly—the oldest legislative body in the western hemisphere—basically operates like a middle school classroom, with the speaker of the House playing the role of jaded, brusque teacher and the other 99 members acting like petulant, unruly students. More feature articles: Bell’s bills 200813 pieces of legislation that Rob Bell carried […]