Seeing the squad car’s blues and reds in your rearview is going to cost a lot more come September. City Council approved a $200 minimum fine for speeding on three roads: Old Lynchburg Road, Avon Street and Altavista Avenue. At its July 2 meeting, Council temporarily increased minimum fines after a survey showed 15 percent […]
Seeing the squad car’s blues and reds in your rearview is going to cost a lot more come September. City Council approved a $200 minimum fine for speeding on three roads: Old Lynchburg Road, Avon Street and Altavista Avenue. At its July 2 meeting, Council temporarily increased minimum fines after a survey showed 15 percent […]
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services launched a new online registry for dangerous dogs on July 2. Created through legislation in the 2006 General Assembly, the interactive database allows users to see if there are any dangerous dogs in their area. Neither Albemarle nor Charlottesville has any yet listed. Virginia law defines a […]
In the rhetoric of business leaders and politicians, the glossy face of the affordable housing issue is a young couple, probably a firefighter and a school teacher, scoping the market for their first home, preferably new and under $190,000. County policy pushes developers to include some such units in their projects, and nonprofits work to […]
When temperatures get in the 90s and the humidity makes you feel like you’re underwater anyway, why not take a dive into the pool? And how much more convenient it is to have a pool of your own. The problem with that, of course, is that you have to be able to afford it—and have […]
Poplars will have to find a new glen. Construction recently began on the second phase of Poplar Glen, a development of townhomes in Albemarle County on the south side of Ivy Road, near the intersection of the Route 29/250 Bypass and Route 250 West. Owners of the property, Weather Hill Development, are building 28 townhomes […]
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 […]