Dear Ace: You know that large digital display on 29N near Fashion Square Mall that shows the temperature? Is that thing accurate? When was the last time the temperature was calibrated?—Urma Stat Urma: Why yes, actually. Ace knows exactly the display of which you’re speaking. In fact, he can be seen on that side of […]
Well, that was anticlimactic. After a solid year of sly winks and peek-a-boo promises from both candidates, Virginia’s prospect of having a native son co-piloting the presidential ticket went from “Yes we can” to “No you Kain’t” faster than a UVA undergrad streaking the Lawn. No Tim Kaine for Obama, no Eric Cantor for McCain, […]
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.—William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice […]
My dad started to write his first of many books about America’s loss of direction when I began my formal education.
Martha Jefferson Hospital is in the process of narrowing the list of potential partners to redevelop its 13.6-acre Downtown campus, the biggest city project in decades and one that promises to significantly alter the landscape of Charlottesville. The hospital issued a request for developer qualifications (RFQ) that came due August 29, and spokesman Steve Bowers […]
Before she could renovate her newly purchased home on Park Street, Therese Elron had to win over the city Board of Architectural Review (BAR). She weathered two meetings and dozens of questions about trim, brick patterns and the width of railing. “Are you going to paint your downspouts?” asked BAR member Bill Adams at the […]
Local property manager and developer Keith Woodard has expanded his empire, buying the former Virginia Work Force building at 400 Preston Ave. from the Commonwealth of Virginia for just over $3 million. “We feel that the purchase and renovation of 400 Preston Avenue gives us the opportunity to contribute to and be part of the […]
Almost from the outset of his retrospective at the UVA Art Museum, it seems that Gabriel Laderman has a hyper-Euclidean bone to pick with nature. The early cityscapes with which co-curators Lincoln Perry, David Carbone and Langdon Quinn introduce the exhibit demonstrate the artist’s early classical landscape approach. But “Unconventional Realist” is reorganized to suit […]
More than 1.2 million nurses will be needed in hospitals all over the country by 2014, according to the UVA School of Nursing. Yet nurses are not the only sought-after profession—their teachers, too, are in demand. At the UVA Medical Center, nurses have been affected by the shortage, but hospital officials say it could be […]