Correction from November 20 issue

Due to a reporting error, in the story "Faith group strives for real action" [Government News, November 20, 2007], Father Dennis McAuliffe, co-president and pastor of Holy Comforter Catholic Church, was misidentified as Father Dennis McCullough. We apologize to Father McAuliffe and sincerely regret the mistake.

"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier"

comics Prior to its publication last month, "The Black Dossier" had become almost as legendary as the mysterious tome in its title. This third volume detailing the adventures of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—a team made up of Victorian literature’s most colorful heroes and anti-heroes—had been delayed for more than a year, and will not […]

Twelfth Night

stage Despite signs pointing to the contrary, I have felt like some relentless Shakes-peer is bribing local theater companies to perform Twelfth Night and formed the impression that the show has been up on nearly every local stage in the past year. In actuality, the only other theater to stage the show this year was […]

Publish or perish

The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies has come up with a cool idea (about global warming, ironically), and C-VILLE, proud member that we are, is more than happy to join in. On the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, AAN has made available to its members a wide array of articles that bring us up to date about what is—and what's not—being done about what Al Gore has dubbed the "climate crisis."

You're getting warmer

I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention center management was frantic—a trade show for children’s clothing was about to begin, and every corner of the vast hall still was littered with the carcasses of the sleeping […]

Chill out

Ten years after the Kyoto Protocol first was introduced, the question remains: What can be done about global warming? For the 175 countries that have ratified it so far, the treaty goes into effect next year. While participants from the developing world have agreed to reduce anthropomorphic greenhouse gases by more than half of their […]

Kyoto accordingly

Ross Gelbspanauthor, The Heat is On and Boiling Point, www.heatisonline.org Ross Gelbspan More features: You’re getting warmer The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming.On its 10th anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate? Chill out Skeptical environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg questions the Kyoto Protocol’s effectiveness Kyoto: 10 years warmerThe story in […]

The Ice Man

In the middle of a table in Konrad Steffen’s office at the University of Colorado in Boulder sits a strikingly beautiful globe composed of hand-carved gemstones. Steffen, a geography professor, knows very well that sooner or later the globe will have to be revised. The coastline will shift, swallowing the Nile River megadelta, flooding low-lying […]

Days are numbered for Beta house

After several months of deliberation, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has decided to tear down the former Beta Theta fraternity house—a 94-year-old building also known as the Compton House—in order to make room for a 22,000-square-foot graduate fellowship center. "We analyzed various options, some of which included the house as part of the facility and others […]

AHIP's Treesdale gets $75K

Love them or hate them, Charlottesville and Albemarle police officers need a place to live. So do teachers. And social workers. The list goes on, and anyone who’s tried to live in the area knows that doing so on a $30,000 salary isn’t easy. Previous coverage: Protecting the salt of the earthTeresa Tapscott reflects on […]