Harvest Number of Mexican pickers hired at harvest time: 4 Average each is paid per eight-hour day: $102 Amount of grapes picked on a normal day: 3 tons Total harvest cost: $3,000 In addition to these costs, in 2005 the Pucketts purchased five tons of grapes for an additional cost of $9,000. The Winery Purchase […]
Harvest Number of Mexican pickers hired at harvest time: 4 Average each is paid per eight-hour day: $102 Amount of grapes picked on a normal day: 3 tons Total harvest cost: $3,000 In addition to these costs, in 2005 the Pucketts purchased five tons of grapes for an additional cost of $9,000. The Winery Purchase […]
A few hours before the Satellite Ballroom’s 8pm door time, and the space is quiet.
As both Democrats and Republicans cast about last week for an Iraq policy that was both acceptable to their respective bases and capable of passage, political courage, if not competence, was in short supply for both parties.
Anything cookin’ with Chris Daughtry these days? —Miss N. Idol Miss: First, Ace will assume you mean Daughtry, the band created by Fluvanna County product and ex-"American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry, and not simply Daughtry himself, though answering this question in reference to one would pretty much clear up the question of the whereabouts of […]
He's baaaack! After briefly flirting with a presidential run (before telling his shocked supporters "I want to have a real life," and mysteriously dropping out of the race), former Governor…
When the white-haired usher at the Paramount shines her flashlight on the ticket, she says, “The show tonight will start at 8:30pm, not 8pm.”
music With all the excitement surrounding the return of Bob Dylan to Charlottesville, it’s easy to forget that his foundation—straight-ahead folk music—has been largely banished to the shadows. New folk singer-songwriters, awash not in Dylan’s resplendent history, must scrape together bits of acclaim here and there. Lord, they might as well be poets or intellectual […]
music The eighth annual Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival began with a major bang on Sunday, September 9. Literally, a major bang, as the event opened with Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515. The 220-year-old piece’s melodies ricocheted back and forth between violas, violins and cello, filling Old Cabell Hall with the sweet sounds […]
Nathan Antonio Washington, the man arrested for two sexual assaults linked to the serial rapist, has been tied to another sexual attack. A DNA sample obtained from Washington matched DNA evidence found at the scene of the sexual assault that occurred in a Waynesboro motel in 1997, according to The Daily Progress. That assault was […]