Car business ain’t booming [March 1]

Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. (Ford and GM models are selling much worse for […]

“Whitest Kids” and greenest booze [March 2]

Back with a castmate from a trip to Los Angeles, 27-year-old Trevor Moore, former host of local public access comedy show “The Trevor Moore Show” and currently one of five members of New York-based sketch comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U’ Know, decided to introduce his colleagues (and New York Times columnist Amanda Stern) to […]

Between the sheets

The actual e-mail, like so many others, is gone. It was from Frank Dubec, the publisher of this newspaper, who is a little more Yahoo in the Swiftian sense than you’d think for a guy charged with balancing budgets. Bobcattin’: The Rivanna Solid Waste Authority’s Paper Sort Facility takes in 4,000 to 5,000 tons of […]

Atwood proposes “machine” for W. Main

The drought this year must have made a definite impression on local architect Bill Atwood. He appeared for the fourth time before the city Board of Architectural Review on February 19 with a starkly different design for a proposed six-story, mixed-use building that would take the place of the Under the Roof building on W. […]