All Star Football 2K8/NCAA 08 Football

game It’s just one more digitized testament to our national football jones: Training camps don’t start until August, but our football videogames now come out in July. The big dog, EA’s Madden 08, doesn’t take the field for a few more weeks, but we’ve already got two solid options to toss around. Live in the […]

Business as usual

We admit it: We’ve got Washington envy. It often seems as though that nonstop traffic jam across the Potomac has more of everything the Odd Dominion holds dear

The Every Piece Of Art In The Museum Of Modern Art Book

book “This book contains every piece of art that was visible to the public at The Museum of Modern Art from January 19 to January 31, 2005.” The flatness of this declaration, printed on the book’s inside front cover, reverberates in its stark black-and-white presentation throughout, as expressionless as a pamphlet on fire prevention. This […]

Say Something

cd Listen to Loving You by Richelle Claiborn with Andy Rowland on alto sax: powered by ODEOCourtesy of Richelle Claiborne – Thank you! There is something to be said for conviction, that lock-jawed, tooth-grinding determination to not simply say something, but to, you know, mean it. A million musicians may play the same three-chord tune […]

Where the bison once roamed

Dear Ace: Where’d the bison out in Albemarle County go?—Buffalo Bill Buffalo: Yes, local food-lovin’ Charlottesville has lost some local food. The bison around here have gone the way of the buffalo, as it were. What’s the deal? The 100 or so bison that were here until recently were residents of Georgetown Farm, an operation […]

Of cameras and cannabis

Downtown businesses were able to leverage fear from the "white t-shirt gang attacks" and push the city to move forward with plans for Downtown Mall cameras—despite the fact that none of the incidents happened there. The city has put out a request for proposals and has budgeted $300,000 for the surveillance, which city Police Chief […]

Photo finish

One requirement. That’s all we had: “Be bold.” Otherwise, our instructions to photographers in this year’s the-art-director- is-on-vacation photo contest were fairly freewheeling.

Correction from July 10 issue

In the July 10 cover story ["Food fights"] The Farm at Red Hill was misidentified as Red Hill Farm. Also, it is located in North Garden, and not Free Union, as was stated in the article. Our sincere apologies to the fine folks at the farm for the reporting errors.

Corrections from July 17 issue

In last week’s story on the proposed government auction of bandwith ["City Fire Chief Enters Bandwidth Battle," Government News], the position and role of Charlottesville Fire Chief Charles Werner was misrepresented. Werner is not a public safety commentator with the Association of Public Safety Officials International. Moreover, while there are concepts in the Frontline proposal […]