Peter Tschirhart Age: 26Year: Grad studentConcentration: MusicHometown: Houston, TexasWhat’s in your backpack?: Notebook, Twilight in the Desert by Matthew Simmons, Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn, articles from The New Yorker and The Economist, copy of J.S. Bach’s English Suites for harpsichord, iPhone, USB drive, pens.
The Daily Progress ceased all printing operations at its W. Rio Road facility last week, canning 25 workers in the process. The local daily immediately started rolling out of a Hanover County press where the Richmond Times-Dispatch has been printed. Both papers are owned by Richmond-based Media General, which also owns the press and is […]
“George the Third is supposed to be our father, that’s what a sovereign is, he’s supposed to protect us,” rumbles Peter Onuf, raising the pitch of his gravely baritone. “How do you feel protected when you’ve got your dad out there sending mercenaries to Boston to kill your countrymen?” “O.K., O.K., slow down, Peter,” commands […]
Saint Anne’s-Belfield, the Charlottesville private school adept at soaking up the children of the elites, including those of John Grisham and Howie Long, has been granted $30 million in low-interest loans issued by the Albemarle County Industrial Development Authority to expand its lower school campus and, in the process, tear down a 94-year-old house that […]
Dear Ace: I saw the article in The Daily Progress about algae working its way into our tap water as of late. Should I be afraid?—Al G. Green Al: Look, man, this ain’t no advice column. Ace can no more tell you to be scared of a little algae than he can tell you that it’s […]
O.K., it’s official: With the presidential nominating contests finally, mercifully kaput, and the party’s respective candidates solemnly girding themselves for November’s political battle, our quaint little Commonwealth is fast emerging as the key battlefield of 2008’s wide-ranging electoral war.
At the end of May, incoming UVA law school students got word that the student-loan ground was shifting beneath their very feet. An e-mail from Cynthia Burns, the director of financial aid for the law school, informed incoming first-years that the University had ended its relationship with Bank of America.
“Maybe I’ll wear my shades,” says Paul Cantor. The UVA English professor flips a set of clip-on sunglasses down over his regular frames and leans back in a black metal chair on the Downtown Mall. “I lead a double life.” While Cantor teaches on elitist seeming subjects like Homer and Shakespeare in a university setting, […]
I have walked the Downtown Mall several times a day for the past year in my job at C-VILLE, but I have seldom noticed the disrepair of its 32-year-old bricks.
The name of the game is “Second Chances.” The contestant? Nearby Scottsville, one of a slew of cities across Virginia trying to revamp its downtown area in the hope of attracting more tourists.