Professor remembers MLK’s ’63 visit
“I swear I can’t remember how we got the [hotel] room,” says Paul M. Gaston.
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Professor remembers MLK’s ’63 visit
Recounts struggles that King and his hosts faced
“I swear I can’t remember how we got the [hotel] room,” says Paul M. Gaston.
Gun show loophole bills far from slam dunk
Two weeks ago, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, surrounded by the families of Virginia Tech shooting victims, announced his support for legislation to close what has come to be known as Virginia’s “gun show loophole.” Creigh Deeds, state senator representing Charlottesville, who recently announced his run for governor in 2009, has opposed such legislation in the […]
Housing authority readies for redevelopment
As if answering questions about public housing isn’t difficult enough.
Region Ten and the power of the written word
“You see,” writes Myra Anderson in her essay “Healing Words,” “when you’ve been hospitalized over one hundred times, taken away in handcuffs, subject to medication against your will, thrown into seclusion and restraints constantly, traumatized repeatedly, and forced to grow up in a system which prided itself on conformity and compliance, maybe then you can […]
Schools pick wrong on closure toss-up
Parents of city and county schools gave it to administrators for not calling off school when it snowed last week. Many (if not all) city and county parents of school-age children were livid January 17, when school officials opted not to call it off like surrounding counties—and instead did so two hours into the school […]
Correction from January 15 issue
Due to production and proofreading errors, the grid in last week’s crossword puzzle didn’t correspond to the questions below it, making the puzzle impossible to solve, even for all the crossword puzzle experts out there. To make amends, in this issue we’re running last week’s corrected puzzle (page 44 of print issue), as well as […]
Building a history
Additional reporting by Jayson Whitehead and Scott Weaver WARNING: The things you are about to see may baffle you. With a few exceptions, these are the places that you didn’t expect anyone to care about, or at least not anyone in Charlottesville. But Charlottesville isn’t Disney’s Thomas Jefferson Land. We have some buildings that reflect […]
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
It’s mostly couples, but they don’t have room to dance save for a shrug of the shoulders or the shifting of weight from one foot to another.
Baseball bat bill strikes out [January 22]
Pitching in a high school baseball game last year, junior George Miller was struck in the knee by a ball that was hit so hard he was rushed to the emergency room.