Your tax dollars, at work
Worked for the city for: 14 years Resides in: Charlottesville Job title: Commonwealth’s Attorney Best of times: The courtroom experience. “If you are interested in doing trial work, you have […]
Perriello workers get Web lessons from blogger
As Lowell Feld tells it, his blog, RaisingKaine. com (the self proclaimed “Voice of Progressive Virginia”) was born out of cynicism, depression, anger and just a teensy bit of hope.
What's in your backpack?
Age: 35 Year: Grad student Concentration: Italian Hometown: Milan, Italy What’s in your backpack?: Agenda, CD with recordings of students, cell phone, sunglasses, pencils, Avanti Italian book, international papers, class […]
Appraising Kaine
Dear Odd:
I’m the once-beloved governor of a mid-size, Southern, formerly Jeffersonian brick-red
Free Willie association
Dear Ace: Do you think maybe Willie Nelson is stalking us?—Perry NoydPerry: Ace has never been a man to buy into conspiracy theories, but for quite some time now, he’s […]
Two turntables and a Danger Mouse
Enlisting DJ Danger Mouse—one half of the psychedelic soul group Gnarls Barkley—Beck seemed poised for a return to the madcap sound collages of his landmark albums, Odelay and Mellow Gold. […]
The art of war
Gordon Emery didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life until he was 20 years old and started practicing Kung Fu …
Scriptural Reasoning program alters traditional religion
In 1994, future UVA religion Professor Peter Ochs started an unusual but simple practice of having academics from the three religious traditions that share the Bible as a fundamental text […]
Corrections from July 21 issue
Due to an editorial error, the website for Anita Gupta’s wedding cake business was misidentified in last week’s issue of UNIONS. The correct website is maliha creations.com.Also in UNIONS, due […]
Community land trusts coming to town
Between 2000 and 2006, the median sales costs of houses doubled in the Charlottesville metropolitan area, and the county nearly kept the same pace. As a result, housing became affordable […]