How crooks spent your summer vacation

Over the past month, C-VILLE has heard rumors of an increase of city break-ins. Local podcaster Sean Tubbs had a too-close encounter with city police (and their firearms) while they were tracking down a breaking and entering suspect near his home.

The "heroic" institution

Just back from Boston, where he caught a Red Sox playoff game, UVA's Michael Klarman sits down with C-VILLE to talk about his new book, interesting cases on the Supreme Court docket and why war plays a larger role in American race relations than you'd think. Here's an edited transcript of the conversation.

SOCA Announces new facility in Belvedere

After denying a 10-acre soccer facility in northern Albemarle County—and breaking the hearts of shin-guarded kids, who are legion—the county Board of Supervisors is backing a new facility for the Soccer Organization of Charlottesville Albemarle (SOCA).

Casa de Chihuahua, with Mr. Baby and Black Twig

music For those with eclectic tastes in a cosmopolitan hamlet like Charlottesville, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how great Southern music can be, especially when played live. Three solid acts at the Outback Lodge served as a healthy reminder. Black Twig played first and, despite sharing three members with Blacksburg-based noise-and-folk acts Pelt and […]

High anxiety

Ace: What would you say is the highest point in Charlottesville?—Rhett E. Tuclime Rhett: Ace’s knee-jerk reaction to your question was to say that Lee Park is probably the highest point in Charlottesville (heh heh). But, Ace realized that, in all seriousness, this wasn’t what you meant, and therefore brushed up on some terms to […]

Correction from October 2 issue

Due to a data entry error, last week’s print edition gave the wrong date for Sonia & Disappear Fear’s show at Gravity Lounge. It was October 6 not October 7, as stated. Apologies to the band and fans who might have missed the show.

Bob Log III, with The 40 Boys and The Corndawg

music Take Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band and pack them into one man’s body. Zip that body up in a blue spandex jumpsuit adorned with mirrored sequins. Slap on a glitter-covered, half-motorcycle, half-space helmet with a telephone receiver glued to the front. Feed the resulting Frankenstein some scotch and amphetamines. This is Bob Log […]