The year of the blueprint (not the bulldozer)
Just because homes sat on the market an average of 92 days and sales dropped to 2003 levels didn't mean there was nothing to report in 2007.
Nukes, Fines, C.A.R.S., Pigs and parks
More 2007 year in Review The year of the blueprint (not the bulldozer)2007 development news in review Rape, murder, kiddie porn and more2007 courts and crime news in review One new school, gobs of cash, but no A&S dean2007 UVA news in review Our government—federal, state and local— made its usual range of controversial decisions […]
The year of living famously
It seemed like only yesterday that the most incendiary Hollywood scandals were Man-Eating Actress A snatching up Milquetoast Actress B's husband, Leading Man C getting caught diddling the help, or Has-Been Z wandering through the Valley claiming to be the reincarnation of a space god …
Board of Zoning appeals denies Monticello Ridge
On October 31, Charlottesville city Zoning Administrator Read Brodhead sent a letter to Louise Wright informing her that her plan to offer transitional housing to the homeless was in violation of a nonconforming use permit she had been granted a year earlier to run the former assisted living facility on 218 Ridge St.
Rape, murder, kiddie porn and more
Charlottesville and Albemarle saw three murders committed, one serial rapist caught and a whole host of men messing around sexually with minors (real or digital, as the case may be).
One new school, gobs of cash, but no A&S dean
More 2007 year in Review The year of the blueprint (not the bulldozer)2007 development news in review Rape, murder, kiddie porn and more2007 courts and crime news in review Nukes, Fines, C.A.R.S., Pigs and parks2007 Government news in review The area’s biggest employer continued its $3 billion quest to help raise its rankings, while leaving […]
Jones beats Maryland [December 25]
Ten years after being fired as UVA’s men’s basketball coach, Jeff Jones is celebrated in a John Feinstein column in today’s Washington Post. On December 22, Jones’ current team—American University—traveled the short distance from their home in Northwest Washington, D.C. to Maryland’s Comcast Center where they beat the Gary Williams coached Terrapins by the score […]
I’m wassailing away! [December 24]
Among the Christmas tunes that inspire quizzical looks and questions of origin (right up there with “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”), “Here We Come A-Wassailing” is a classic …
Sons of Bill, with Shannon Worrell
The doors open at 8pm and, half an hour later, only 20 people or so circle around the line of cocktail tables at the rear of the Satellite Ballroom, or step over to the bar to grab a Kalamazoo Stout …