Primary dreams
First off, caveat emptor: The sell-by date on this particular edition of The Odd Dominion is so close, that it may well expire before you reach the end of the first paragraph.
Guitar Hero competition
The DJ, a tall, goateed man in a dark shirt and a Tampa Bay Lightning baseball cap, is still connecting the HDTV (high-definition television) to his PlayStation system as the 9pm start time for the first of the now-weekly Guitar Hero competition nights at Fellini’s #9, but by a few minutes after he’s ready to go.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
words Longtime readers of The Virginia Quarterly Review are aware that almost every issue sticks to a pattern: an opening series of articles about some of the political hot spots […]
Mulch ado about playgrounds
Dear Ace: I have three young children and we have hit every playground in the area. When I was young, instead of playgrounds, we had swings and see-saws. Where have […]
Correction from January 1 issue
Due to a production error, the subject of the picture accompanying the article “Deeds explains early election launch” in last week’s Government News section was misidentified as Brian Moran. The […]
Greetings from Second Life!
Brent Tamura was born a full-grown man on January 15, 2007, tall and muscular with tan skin and a thickly knotted head of black hair. He is a Capricorn by birth, his ambition and practicality tempered by an occasional shyness.
In the future, green may be bland
There was a time in the not-too-distant past that a developer could stand in front of the county Board of Supervisors or the city’s Planning Commission, tout his or her […]
Beavers can’t build out of development
A week before Christmas, Springridge (part of Forest Lakes) resident Denise Wall was looking out the back window of her house into a creek at the bottom of the hill. […]
Road to ruins
The Compton House, a.k.a. the former Beta Theta House, is now but a pile of rubble. Yet though its driveway is now a road to nowhere, the Thomas Jefferson Scholars […]
Follow-up
Wendell Wood has at last gotten a lease for 40,000 square feet of rental space to be used by the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), a lease he has long […]