One thing is for certain: When it’s complete next summer, the 100-room boutique hotel that broke ground last week will bring rich people to the Downtown Mall. Developed by Lee Danielson and Halsey Minor, it’s planned as a five-star luxury hotel complete with eclectic decorating and the kind of attention to detail that only money […]
Several rural ordinances when passed by Albemarle County Supervisors February 6 were billed as moderate measures designed to promote the environmental health of the rural areas. But some developers and engineers say that the measures are adding thousands of dollars to the permitting process and in some instances cutting off large portions of developable land. […]
March melancholy overtakes Hooville today, after the UVA men’s basketball team didn’t make it
The New York Governor Eliot Spitzer prostitution-ring debacle is making waves even down here
Sure, we in the press love nakedness and heavy drinking. Especially when they come in the
Rumor has it that for the last few years, Offstage Theatre has been having a devil of a time getting enough submissions
Alright, local Pavement fans: If you want your local rock historian’s take on the new record from Stephen Malkmus…
For one thing, the cover is nice. I know this should be an impertinent aside, but I still maintain that if you’re going to have a cover, you may as well make it passable, if not actively good. Here, you get the ocean and an overcast sky, with the title lined up perfectly on the […]
In the next month, Albemarle County will establish its real estate tax rate and budget for fiscal year 2008-2009. Even in flush years, the final steps of this process are fractious. Parents of children in the public schools, teachers, advocates for social programs, environmentalists and others appear at public hearings and call for funding of […]
There was a discordant chorus of queasy squealing earlier this year, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that “food from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as that from their more conventionally bred counterparts.” Many carnivores, it seems, remain unwilling to munch on meat that’s been replicated with genetic […]