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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

There's always something on your mind, isn't there? Yet rare are the times when you get to unload those heavy thoughts. We here at C-VILLE feel your pain, which is why we give you a yearly opportunity to express yourself …

Best use of an apology: Hunter Craig. The county Planning Commission unanimously recommended denial the first time around on…