Thanksgiving leftovers
Well, another campaign season has come and gone, leaving us with an aching hole in our political gut that no amount of turkey and oyster stuffing could possibly fill.
One string attached
Dear Ace: The good folks at Brown’s Dry Cleaners claim they are not allowed to recycle metal hangers. My husband and I collect them by the dozens each month and […]
Correction from November 20 issue
As some of you roadkill experts may have noticed, last week’s Ask Ace ["Taking Control"] didn’t tell the whole story when it comes to who to call for cleanup after […]
The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories
comics "The Perry Bible Fellowship" gets biblical on your ass with The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, a new collection of strips from these indie favorites. (Note: C-VILLE […]
"We All Live in Bordertowns"
art Photography’s a multifaceted world these days, and it certainly looks that way at Migration‘s invitational show. There is traditional black-and-white work; there is vivid computer-manipulated fantasy; there is work […]
Philly hoop group dispatches Cavs [November 24]
The UVA men’s basketball team was off to a fiery five-game winning streak before their trip to the Philly Hoop Group Classic to play against Seton Hall. The Cavs had […]
Freud: Psych's loss, literature's gain [November 25]
Psychoanalysis is dying in campus psych departments but flourishing in just about every other discipline, reports today’s New York Times. Among those: the English department, and the Times quotes UVA […]
Van Halen to play JPJ [November 26]
There is much rejoicing in the offices of C-VILLE this morning at the…
The echo of Vinegar Hill
There is a scene that begins the third act of William James' play Vinegar Hill Revisited, in which two sisters, Brenda Ann and Mary Lou, stare down their grief over the death of their mother. They are—or were—inhabitants of Vinegar Hill, a 20-acre tract of land just west of what is now Charlottesville's Downtown Mall…
Forty years later, still affordable
In the 1960s, Charlottesville was undergoing the desegregation of its schools, but as African-American teachers made their way to the area, they confronted a different type of restriction.