Steve Kelly seems to be at a crucial moment in his development at a painter. I say that not out of familiarity with his previous work—I haven’t seen it—but because of what I saw at the Bridge, where he has a solo show. (His brother, Greg Kelly, is a Bridge co-founder.) The crucial moment is […]
Oh my, what a shock for literary snobs to behold a comic book image on the cover of the new issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review. Regular readers of the journal know, however, that one of the features of Ted Genoways’ editorship is frequent nods to the art of the graphic novel and all its […]
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric attended the groundbreaking of the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, the $74 million facility planned for the corner of Jefferson Park Avenue and Lee Street and named for her sister, the late Virginia senator. Couric joined Governor Tim Kaine and UVA President John Casteen for the hour-long, invitation-only event, […]
Roanoke has selected Charlottesville-based Red Light Management to develop and manage an outdoor amphitheater at the former Victory Stadium site. Red Light, a part of Coran Capshaw’s music empire, will be responsible for completing a feasibility study, designing the facility and operating the amphitheater once it’s completed, reported the Roanoke Times. Though Roanoke officials declined […]
Here’s the quickie version of the first-quarter market report just out from CAAR (the Charlottesville Albemarle Association of Realtors).
In the April 2008 issue of ABODE, due to an editorial error, the Hot House page contained text referring to the ecoMOD3 project on Fourth Street SW, but the photo shows the ecoMOD1 project on 7 1/2 Street SW. Unlike ecoMOD3, the ecoMOD1 project does not incorporate a pre-existing 19th century building.
The Charles Kingrea implicated in a cockfighting ring in Harrisonburg is not a jeweler as erroneously reported in an April 1, 2008, Government News story [“Cockfighting becomes felony”]. Charles Frank Kingrea, owner of C.K. Jewelers, is not the Charles Leo Kingrea of Gordonsville, who is alleged to have operated a retail business at a cockfight. […]
Just a few days shy of the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, Governor Tim Kaine signed mental health care reform legislation that some mental health care advocates and survivors say will have disastrous effects.
On Thursday, April 17, 40 to 50 men, women and children will learn from the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals whether their home at Hope Community Center will have to shut its doors. For a little more than four months, the Hope Community Center, run by Josh Bare with his father, Harold, has housed the […]
When the general manager of the Tidewater Fibre Corp (TFC) recycling facility in Chester stands up in front of 15 visitors and says that 95 percent of the facility’s work is done by manual labor, he is to be believed. Citizens of Charlottesville: Recycling all your plastic, metal and paper may be doing its part […]