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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is much rejoicing in the offices of C-VILLE this morning at the…
There is a scene that begins the third act of William James' play Vinegar Hill Revisited, in which two sisters, Brenda Ann and Mary Lou, stare down their grief over the death of their mother. They are—or were—inhabitants of Vinegar Hill, a 20-acre tract of land just west of what is now Charlottesville's Downtown Mall…
In the 1960s, Charlottesville was undergoing the desegregation of its schools, but as African-American teachers made their way to the area, they confronted a different type of restriction.
For hundreds of years, probably thousands, a type of fish known as the American shad would leave its birthplace in the Rivanna River to travel to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the James River and Chesapeake Bay. Like the better known salmon, shad are an anadromous species that are born in fresh water, but […]