I spend the first five minutes of Cirque du Soleil’s opening night at the John Paul Jones Arena, the first performance in a five-night stand by the Canadian-spectacle-gone-Vegas-glitz-fest, not writing a thing. Instead, I mutter awed syllables with the people around me, cutting phrases like “Did you see that?” and “How’d those trapeze artists pull […]
Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. (Ford and GM models are selling much worse for […]
Back with a castmate from a trip to Los Angeles, 27-year-old Trevor Moore, former host of local public access comedy show “The Trevor Moore Show” and currently one of five members of New York-based sketch comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U’ Know, decided to introduce his colleagues (and New York Times columnist Amanda Stern) to […]
The national media spent much of February expressing its shock (and titillation) about JuicyCampus.com, a website started by a Duke grad to air dorm room gossip publicly and anonymously.
The March 10 issue of BusinessWeek ranks UVA’ McIntire School of Commerce at No. 2 in undergraduate business schools.
A press release today from the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce revealed the results of their 2008 Member Economic Survey, and characterized our fair city as a small center of calm within jittery America.
Van Halen postponed their February 22 gig at John Paul Jones Arena, but fans need not fear: The band will return to make up the show on March 11.
State gaming officials have told residents along St. George Avenue in Crozet not to go outside by themselves for fear of a mountain lion attack…
What does a juicy burger, brie cheese, a latte, a stylish belt, manufacturing lubricants, and a bowl of organic steamed vegetables have in common?
The actual e-mail, like so many others, is gone. It was from Frank Dubec, the publisher of this newspaper, who is a little more Yahoo in the Swiftian sense than you’d think for a guy charged with balancing budgets. Bobcattin’: The Rivanna Solid Waste Authority’s Paper Sort Facility takes in 4,000 to 5,000 tons of […]