Timeline: the search for the serial rapist

November 25, 2002 Charlottesville police confirm genetics links in five rape cases since 1997 and warn the public about a "serial rapist."April 30, 2003 An official sketch of the suspect, compiled from previous drawings and descriptions, is released. April 14, 2004 Charlottesville police temporarily suspend "DNA dragnet" following a lawsuit filled by a black male […]

City and County declare drought warning

Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors both officially declared a "drought warning" on August 16 and approved measures to restrict public water use. The declarations came a day after a recommendation from the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) upgrading the situation to the second of three stages of possible water-shortage […]

Who shot the professor?

Dear Ace: The fact that the UVA honor code started after a student shot a professor is just one of those things you learn as a Charlottesvillian. What’s the deal with that?—Peter Gunn Peter: Hey, Ace doesn’t want to get on any FBI watch lists here, but he’s met a few academics he wouldn’t lose […]

Correction from August 7 issue

Due to a reporting error, an article in last week’s Courts & Crime News ["Kluge estate sued for unpaid cleaning bills"] misstated the name of Patricia Kluge’s husband. He is Bill Moses.

Appetite for Destruction

cd Scenes from a preteen wasteland. Nineteen-eighty-seven, the year Metal broke, the year I turned 12, the year I first got loaded like a freight train and the year Guns N’ Roses released Appetite For Destruction. It wasn’t Nirvana that killed Metal, it was G N’ R. It was this album. Nothing was ever going […]

Negativland

music In modern society it’s easy to throw together pop culture fragments for entertaining results. Whether you’re flipping through the ridiculous parade of TV reality shows or getting down to Girl Talk‘s mash-up dance mixes, it’s not hard to find novelty and distraction. We like our postmodern art (especially when it comes to sights and […]

La Bohème

stage It would be hard to choose a better introduction to opera than Puccini’s tragicomic celebration of young love in poverty, with its accessible music, direct dialogue and realistic scenario. I’d find it almost as hard to imagine a better introduction to La Bohème than this production, sung in witty English verse by skilled and […]