Grisham pleads the First [November 29]
It's time for the latest chapter in Oklahoma District Attorney Bill Peterson's lawsuit against Charlottesville-area resident John Grisham.
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Grisham pleads the First [November 29]
His lawyers try to rid the author of his lawsuit once and for all
It's time for the latest chapter in Oklahoma District Attorney Bill Peterson's lawsuit against Charlottesville-area resident John Grisham.
DMB bassist's house is smokin' [November 29]
Dave Matthews Band bass player Stefan Lessard had to perform an unfortunate fire dance this morning, as he and his son escaped a 7:30am house fire at his home on Morgantown Road, reports the Charlottesville Newsplex today.
Groh won't go; fans fuss [November 28]
After Tuesday's announcement that Al Groh not only won the ACC Coach of the Year award but was granted a one-year extension of his contract
Thanksgiving leftovers
Well, another campaign season has come and gone, leaving us with an aching hole in our political gut that no amount of turkey and oyster stuffing could possibly fill.
One string attached
Dear Ace: The good folks at Brown’s Dry Cleaners claim they are not allowed to recycle metal hangers. My husband and I collect them by the dozens each month and it makes me sick to think of piles of hangers going nowhere but the landfill. Also, one other cleaner—now defunct Terra Bella—used to recycle hangers. […]
Correction from November 20 issue
As some of you roadkill experts may have noticed, last week’s Ask Ace ["Taking Control"] didn’t tell the whole story when it comes to who to call for cleanup after encountering dead animals on the road. Ace humbly apologizes and asks you to please tune into next week’s column, where he will set the record […]
The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories
comics "The Perry Bible Fellowship" gets biblical on your ass with The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, a new collection of strips from these indie favorites. (Note: C-VILLE does not condone unicorn-related violence.) "The Perry Bible Fellowship" is the name of an up-and-coming indie comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch. PBF became something of […]
"We All Live in Bordertowns"
art Photography’s a multifaceted world these days, and it certainly looks that way at Migration‘s invitational show. There is traditional black-and-white work; there is vivid computer-manipulated fantasy; there is work that puts its conceptualism at the fore. But it’s not really because of these many approaches that the show feels like such a crazy quilt; […]
Philly hoop group dispatches Cavs [November 24]
The UVA men’s basketball team was off to a fiery five-game winning streak before their trip to the Philly Hoop Group Classic to play against Seton Hall. The Cavs had made short work of a couple of teams with names that sound like those of the feeble kids that get picked on in grade school […]
Freud: Psych's loss, literature's gain [November 25]
Psychoanalysis is dying in campus psych departments but flourishing in just about every other discipline, reports today’s New York Times. Among those: the English department, and the Times quotes UVA English prof Mark Edmundson on the place of Sigmund Freud in the pantheon. "Freud to me is a writer comparable to Montaigne and Samuel Johnson […]