Thao with The Get Down Stay Down
Thao’s songs are refreshingly not all about angsty break-ups. Instead, she writes about family and presents the everyday with new significance as she says, “You can’t build cathedrals out of […]
Dem fundraiser draws Obama and Clinton on cusp of primary
Two girls, probably in their early 20s, get in the line that has formed in front of the concession stand.
Former mayor, delegate Van Yahres dies
Mitch Van Yahres Charlottesville lost one of its longtime public servants on Friday, February 8, when Mitch Van Yahres, 81, died in the Martha Jefferson Hospital of complications after surgery […]
Your tax dollars, at work
Dayna Awkard Worked for Albemarle County for: 18 years come March 15Resides in: Waynesboro Job title: Deputy Clerk. She started working as a deputy clerk straight out of Fluvanna High […]
City prepares to turn down the volume
A few weeks ago on the Downtown Mall, there was an unusual performance: Jim Tolbert, the city’s director of Neighborhood Development Services, strummed an electric guitar hooked up to an amp in front of Snooky’s Pawnshop, with a couple of cops milling about.
One day from progress
One day after appearing on CBS’ “60 Minutes” with Katie Couric—one of UVA politics professor Larry Sabato’s first students—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat before a whole class of Sabato’s, in a nearly full auditorium at Old Cabell Hall. With only a day to go until Virginia’s primary the New York senator was here to rally the college vote.
Obama gets posthumous endorsement [February 12]
Former Del. Mitch Van Yahres has endorsed Barack Obama from the dead, reports Bob Gibson of The Daily Progress today on his blog.
Breezy apocalypse [February 10]
Traffic lights go dead and chaos erupts on area highways today after high winds knock out power for thousands of customers.
Dubious honor [February 11]
UVA has made a top 10 list that, we imagine, hardly inspires pride around the academical village.
Because basketball sucks… [February 9]
There’s no wrong way to write a UVA Football press release, especially if the occasion is to announce the schedule for the 2008 season.