Above average [November 15]
It's the week before Thanksgiving, and time to start thinking not about the Pilgrims, but about how much money you're going to shell out for the big dinner.
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Above average [November 15]
Virginia Farm Bureau says Charlottesville-area residents will pay the most for Thanksgiving dinner
It's the week before Thanksgiving, and time to start thinking not about the Pilgrims, but about how much money you're going to shell out for the big dinner.
UVA to middle schoolers: Get it on! [November 14]
You know that $200 million plus that we spend each year on "abstinence only" sex education? Well, it might be an even bigger waste of sex-ed money than first thought.
West end story
Ace, I was on the west end of the Downtown Mall the other day with a long, well-crafted letter to a friend in another state…
Correction from November 6 issue
Due to a production error, the photograph of the hens at Polyface Farm in last week’s cover story ["All you can’t eat"] was credited to Eric Kelley. It was taken by Jason Lappa.
How low can you go?
Well here we are, smack dab in the middle of the saddest-slash-most-satisfying time of the year. Saddest because, let’s face it, the political world rarely gets more absurd and lampoonable than it does during election season, when even the most calculated and circumspect pol is willing to go to ridiculous lengths to win re-election, thereby […]
The Police, with Fiction Plane
music The reviewers sit huddled together to the left of the stage, notebooks of multiple sizes drawn, pens clicking or uncapping with snips, same press packets for The Police‘s 2007 tour splayed across laps or tucked into bags beneath our seats. In the dark of the audience, the lights carried by blue-vested ushers guide groups […]
Bubbalon By Bass: Adventures in Entropy [with audio]
cd A fresh tropical breeze weaves its way through Dave Grant‘s Bubbalon By Bass, from opening Appalachian standard "Red Rockin’ Chair" to the closing "dubmix" of the Monroe Brothers’ "Rosa Lee McFall." Take a listen to "Red Rockin’ Chair" from Dave Grant‘s Bubbalon By Bass: powered by ODEOCourtesy of Darlene Crawford – Thank you! A […]
The Orange Box
games In a world where 60 smackers routinely nets you gaming crap like Lair and Blue Dragon, The Orange Box is like Easter, Christmas and Halloween rolled into one tidy little package. Chock-full with 2004’s Half-Life 2, 2006’s Half-Life 2: Episode One, the multiplayer Team Fortress 2, Half-Life: Episode Two and Portal, this isn’t just […]
UVA dispatches Vermont, last year's hype [November 11]
In most regards, this year's men's basketball homeopener paled in comparison to last year's against Arizona to inaugurate the John Paul Jones Arena.
Different drunks? [November 12]
On the eternal question of whether a tequila buzz is different in some essential way from a PBR buzz, the November issue of Esquire is noncommittal. All alcoholic drinks have the same psychoactive ingredient— ethanol—says the monthly’s Answer Fella. Still, other factors may intervene. Dr. Bankole Johnson, chair of UVA’s department of psychiatric medicine, is […]