UVA Law student to feds: Told you so
Score one for UVA law students. In one of the cases that the UVA School of Law’s Supreme Court litigation clinic helped bring before the Supreme Court, the justices ruled […]
(Re)New(ed) Cabell Hall
Governor Tim Kaine included two UVA projects on his $1.65 billion bond proposal for higher education capital improvements across the state. The University would get $77.6 million to renovate New […]
Once again, sex issues up for state debate
Debated issues come and go with each session of Virginia’s General Assembly—this year’s fan favorites are sure to include mental health reform and bad driver fees—but there is at least […]
Farewill Lynch, Hamilton
It was nearly 7pm, time for one of the year’s last City Council meetings to begin, and the crowd hushed in anticipation. Four councilors sat on the dais. The fifth, […]
City to comcast: Just checking in
As any Comcast cable subscriber who regularly tunes in to Channel 10 knows, city meetings can rise to the stuff of Shakespeare—except that everybody involved doesn’t die at the end. […]
Supporting the troops
"We invite you to dance," says conductor Leo Mallek almost as soon as we sit down at a fold-up table off to the side of the wood floor. "1-2-3-4," an […]
A dirty story
Dear Ace: The city distributes free plastic bags for leaf collection. Where do these bags go once the leaves are dumped out? To the landfill?—Liv N. Green Liv: Ace wasn’t […]
Correction from December 11 issue
Due to a reporting error, in last week’s Restaurantarama column ["Family affair"], we identified Dick and Linda Oliva as owners of Richard A. Oliva & Sons ceramic tile company. In […]
C'ville hip-hop R.I.P.?
Inside the warm wooden belly of the Outback Lodge, a crew of local rap musicians named Heavy Hustle Entertainment has finished its set of tunes and roams the floor in a pack, their homemade black t-shirts bearing the words "Heavy Hustle Ent." on the front and, on the back, stage names like "Big Mike" and "Young Shotti," baseball caps sporting the abbreviation or outline of their home state, Virginia.
Hip-hopsters
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 […]