Local roadblock [February 5]
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001, White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent out an e-mail warning of a great tragedy where “hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the U.S.,”
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Local roadblock [February 5]
UVA historian implicated in 9/11 cover-up
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001, White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke sent out an e-mail warning of a great tragedy where “hundreds of Americans lay dead in several countries, including the U.S.,”
Stacking, stepping, selling and shooting
Todd Lucas is a natural public speaker. With his close-cropped hair and nearly perfect sense of timing, he talks with an aggressive brand of humor that isn’t so much of the in-your-face variety as it is a “Get a load of this” inclusiveness. With his arms waving, chin jutting out and his ever-present laser pointer […]
The game is on [February 1]
John Whitehead, president of the Charlottesville civil liberties group the Rutherford Institute, has been itching to sue the NFL over its ban on big-screen Super Bowl church parties.
New job tolls for Bell? [January 31]
In today’s Washington Post, Staff Writer Tim Craig puts Delegate Rob Bell, who represents
Going global [January 30]
The Financial Times has ranked UVA’s Darden School of Business 33rd in the world and 16th in
Virginia creeper
Dear Ace: This isn’t a Charlottesville question, per se, but could you help settle a disagreement about driving etiquette? When trying to make a left-hand turn at a traffic light, my wife believes that creeping out into the intersection while waiting to turn is perfectly all right. What is the correct way to handle this […]
Man of the Decade
With fewer stories about Iraq in the media, many Americans are not aware of the great improvements there. Al Qaeda no longer has substantial control of any area of Iraq…
Jukebox
Chan Marshall’s concert at the Satellite Ballroom in 2005 was everything I’d been led to expect it would be: a few sparse, harrowing blues originals from the nervous chanteuse with the dark bangs in her eyes, interrupted halfway through as she voiced her anxieties, saying she “felt like she was being watched by the KKK,” […]
The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
Ten years ago, author Greg Bottoms and I worked together at a local arts and culture magazine called “Gadfly” in an office on the middle level of The Rutherford Institute (which bankrolled the mag). Upstairs, my dad was busy suing Bill Clinton, but down in our purgatory, Greg and I would talk of fringe religious […]
Glass “recycling” not clear cut [with video]
Last November, a report by the City of Charlottesville’s Committee on Environmental Sustainability turned some heads when it revealed that the glass collected locally for recycling ends up in a landfill.