Violence has made it hard to hear live hip-hop in Charlottesville, but many local artists, including all of the Stack Boys, have MySpace pages where they share their music. We checked out some of their tracks, and below is a list of some of our favorites, along with a taste of the rhymes that they […]
cd When gangsta rap ensemble Wu-Tang Clan recorded "Da Mystery of Chessboxin’" for 1993’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), they opened the track with a clip from a 1981 martial arts film called Shaolin & Wu Tang. In the film, members of rival kung-fu clans are pitted against one another by a government official that […]
cd In 1988, N.W.A. changed the course of popular music with their debut album, Straight Outta Compton. It wasn’t the first or the best "gangsta rap" album, but Straight Outta Compton sold two million copies, proving that white American teenagers hungered for profanity-laden, hardcore rap music. This month, Priority Records is celebrating their lucrative discovery […]
videogame Mario’s excellent space adventure isn’t just the Wii’s first absolutely must-have game—it’s also the equivalent of an interactive Disney movie, with rainbow-star bits plummeting from the sky and bursting from patches of grass and pummeled enemies. Manipulating an on-screen cursor with the Wiimote to collect and use the star bits to unlock new colorful […]
Fifty-six-year-old cyclist Fred Wittwer dealt with more than the usual troubles that ail local bicyclists on Saturday as he competed in the 2007 Cyclocross National Championships in Kansas City.
Today The New York Times Book Review takes a look at Charlottesville author Jennifer Ackerman's new book…
Locals woke this morning and cast a wary eye on downed trees and damaged roofs—the results of the previous night's blustery winds, with gusts up to 50 mph.
"The city wants density, but we want you developers to pay for it." That is the essence of a proposed change cooked up by city staff and presented to the Planning Commission December 11, a last minute addition to a rezoning package that has been in discussion for almost a year. The changes were originally […]
The topic itself—whether a vehicular Mall crossing is consistent with the city's comprehensive plan…
Just because you work out a 264-acre rezoning for 900-plus homes and 500,000 square-feet of commercial space by a narrow vote of 4-2 doesn’t put you in the clear. Richard Spurzem, the first developer to bring forward site plans as part of the North Pointe mega-development, had his plans for 188 residential units on 40 […]