Dear Ace: Why is Free Union called Free Union? The name seems a little grandiose for what’s sort of a one-horse town, don’t you think?—Crozet T. Robot Crozet: Yeah, sounds kinda like it should be home to a few Montana militiamen, doesn’t it? But Virginia has plenty of weird town names, though a lot of […]
Dear Ace: Why is Free Union called Free Union? The name seems a little grandiose for what’s sort of a one-horse town, don’t you think?—Crozet T. Robot Crozet: Yeah, sounds kinda like it should be home to a few Montana militiamen, doesn’t it? But Virginia has plenty of weird town names, though a lot of […]
Due to a reporting error in last week’s cover story [“Why doesn’t Charlottesville have a strip club?”], we stated that real estate agent Ellen Pratt has listings for small condos at the Barringer and other properties. Though Ms. Pratt can and would love to show you those listings and even sell them to you, she […]
This is my last column for C-VILLE, and it has been an indescribable pleasure to talk to so many musicians, bands, club owners and people on the local music scene. I want to say thanks to my editor, Cathy Harding, who took a chance on publishing that first On The Record
By Brendan Fitzgerald and John Ruscher music Shannon Worrell played a spectacular and rare gig at Gravity Lounge to celebrate the venue’s fourth anniversary The 100-plus observers gathered at Gravity Lounge’s fourth anniversary concert were just that—“observers.” All senses were tuned to the varying folk frequencies of the evening’s performances—from Paul Curreri, Gravity’s first “official” […]
words In the American press, most articles about Africa tackle the latest turmoil: oil, civil war, child soldiers, blood diamonds. The American mind has been conditioned to think of Africa as a continent that is either constantly at war with itself or dying from disease. In Vanity Fair’s “Africa” issue, guest editor Bono succeeds in […]
game Marvel Ultimate Alliance was clearly on the minds—and the hard drives—of the guys at Visual Concepts as they constructed this summer-sequel movie tie-in. Switch-between-the-heroes D-pad interface? Check. Set of upgradeable superpowers accessed by pulling the trigger buttons? Yep. A deep, endlessly entertaining superhero romp? Um, not so fast, cowboy—looks like “fun” is the missing […]
Advance Mills Supply was a prime example of the country stores within Albemarle County, but its fate typifies a recent trend. The store—listed as “threatened” by a 2003 report from the Albemarle County Historic Preservation Committee—was demolished this past spring, and other country stores face fire, demolition and neglect. Albemarle County is working on ways […]
Early this May, I got a call from local land baron Wendell Wood. He had just seen a piece of mine in that week’s C-VILLE. It concerned a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request I
On July 17, the city Board of Architectural Review (BAR) will get a look—its third, in fact—at Bill Atwood’s plans for a new mixed-use building on W. Main Street. The new building would sit on the corner of West Main and 10 1/2 streets, the current site of the Under the Roof furniture store. That […]
Earlier this month, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy J. Longo submitted a proposal to City Manager Gary O’Connell that said, in sum: