Dear Ace: What’s with these newfangled sidewalks the city is putting in? Are they supposed to be artistic, longer-lasting or just cheap?—Connie CreteConnie: Even though Ace has cheerfully covered other readers’ sidewalk-related questions in the past, never has he had the opportunity to tell this (he thinks) uproarious story from his childhood. Allow him now, […]
Of all the dingy movie theaters in the city, her rump had to walk into mine, clad in sheer pink panties beneath the opening credits of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. Her name was Scarlett, she said, the color of her lips. A name and a color red enough to make your knees shake like […]
I’ll admit it: The Taming of the Shrew boils my blood, and it’s all I can do to maintain my delicate reviewer’s composure and resist lobbing certain easily called-upon “–ist”s and “–ism”s like hand grenades. Anyone who’s seen Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You is more or less familiar with the play’s goings-on: […]
Over the past decade, a somewhat unexpected player has emerged on the development scene: the Jefferson Area Board of the Aging (JABA).
In 2003, in an attempt to attract more development, the city increased the density allowed in swaths around the city. But after a wave of tall Downtown buildings won approval—and with the first of these, the Landmark Hotel at 200 E. Main St., finally under construction—the city seems to have bitten off as much development […]
The nine-story tower planned for the tiny lot at 600 E. Water St. that is currently used for C&O Restaurant parking won conceptual approval from the Board of Architectural Review last month, and as a by-right project, doesn’t need approvals from City Council. The building is slated to primarily house residential units, with some office […]
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), a chronically homeless person is “an unaccompanied disabled individual who has been continuously homeless for over one year.” There are certainly some of those in our area, people who have bottomed out for one reason or another and cannot get back up on their […]
A little after 10am on a sunny May 30, five women in orange prison garb filed into a closed room in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail for their graduation from a re-entry program.
Financial advisor Chris Poe was a college student when he first heard of the I Have a Dream Foundation while watching a “60 Minutes” segment on the program, which started 20 years ago to help poor inner city kids with school and life. “I thought that would really be cool to do someday,” he says. […]
Worked for the city for: 30 years Resides in: Charlottesville Job title: Commissioner of Revenue. Raymond’s office assesses personal property, handles state income, estimated income, daily rental and transient taxes, among others, and runs housing relief programs. Lee Richards Best of times: “You seem to be able to get the same amount of work done […]