One of the most poignant and revealing quotes from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is, “There’s shit in the meat,” referencing the extremely unsanitary conditions at a beef cattle slaughterhouse in Colorado. Here in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, beef cattle are excreting in another undesirable location: the Hardware River. In 2006, an estimated 590,000 pounds […]
One of the most poignant and revealing quotes from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation is, “There’s shit in the meat,” referencing the extremely unsanitary conditions at a beef cattle slaughterhouse in Colorado. Here in Albemarle and Fluvanna counties, beef cattle are excreting in another undesirable location: the Hardware River. In 2006, an estimated 590,000 pounds […]
The City of Charlottesville is looking for, in language that can only be described as compassionate corporatism, a “director of customer care.” The job requires a bachelor’s degree in business or public administration and pays anywhere from $80,000 to $100,000 a year. Think you got what it takes? C-VILLE lists what we think the potential […]
The Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement (JADE) task force made two arrests September 27 and seized approximately $11,400 worth of cocaine and marijuana in two separate undercover operations.
Due to a reporting error, in the story “Web could shift real estate market” [Development News, September 19, 2007], Zillow.com was identified as a site that charged to market homes for sale. In fact, Zillow.com offers this service for free.
Ace, how many tons of garbage does the city pick up each year? And where do they put it all?—T. R. Ashcan A can is merely the first home for your garbage. Say goodbye as it heads to Zions Crossroads and finally to a landfill in Richmond. T.R.: Ace has become increasingly concerned about this […]
“Wine’s not expensive compared to what goes into making it. The work of bringing a bottle of wine to someone’s table is extremely varied, with thousands of gestures and centuries of traditions to honor and remember. It’s not an industry, at least not to us.”—Christine Campadieu, co-owner with her husband…
Tom Dilello is in his eighth year as a Charlottesville waiter—which makes his career more than twice the average restaurant’s lifespan. He’s worked at Martha’s Café, Northern Exposure (where Dilello says a lot of local restaurant workers got their start), Papagayos ("the guy put a quarter million dollars into it and didn’t know what he […]
The sandwich can tell us a lot about a person. For instance, in its earliest days, the sandwich said something like “you’re a compulsive gambler who’s caught a hot streak.” But since those days, it’s grown into a symbol of the workaday laborer, a mark of a nation on the move along its interstate system, […]
UVA graduation, or what’s known as Final Exercises, is a grand affair any way you measure it. Whether you count the 5,900 degrees awarded in May or the estimated 45,000 friends and relatives who come to witness their conferment, Charlottesville is packed to the brim every year for this 178-year-old tradition. The only thing more […]
Ordering within a $20 budget at an upscale restaurant is like using two limited wishes granted by a frog whose soul bears no trace of a handsome young prince. One glass of one of the cheapest wines.