Gather ’round, proud citizens of Charlottesville, and hear tell of a golden land that your city leaders have envisioned. Imagine a world where every worker has a well-paying, career-ladder job. Where every student is a success, and learning is lifelong. Where housing is affordable and attainable. In this new shining city, all take part in […]
Gather ’round, proud citizens of Charlottesville, and hear tell of a golden land that your city leaders have envisioned. Imagine a world where every worker has a well-paying, career-ladder job. Where every student is a success, and learning is lifelong. Where housing is affordable and attainable. In this new shining city, all take part in […]
It’s hard out here for a protestor. But a drizzly afternoon didn’t deter a handful of locals who came out to the First Amendment Monument on May 2, following President George Bush’s veto of the war spending bill. They were organized by MoveOn.org, which staged similar protests around the country.
Due to a production error, the below image of Helen Horal did not appear with the caption on page 37 of our last issue. [It was, however, posted correctly on c-ville.com, Plugged In, Issue 19.17, April 24-30, 2007]. Helen Horal Due to an editorial error, the schedule for walking tours of historic downtown Charlottesville, hosted […]
Dear Ace: Recently, I was driving past the Old Trail development out in Crozet and saw that they’d built a tall screening fence along Jarman’s Gap Road. I noticed that the fence-side is facing Old Trail and the post-side is facing the road. I always thought when you built a fence, your neighbors were supposed […]
Brace yourself, kids—we’re kick-starting this week’s column with a controversial, you-heard-it-here-first prediction: Senator John Warner will retire at the end of this, his fifth
stage On April 23, William Shakespeare’s moldering corpse celebrated its 443rd year on this planet. The Bard’s body has little to hope for, besides one more year of slow decay. His body of work, on the other hand, can look forward to another year of life on stages around the world. One such stage is […]
cd Panda Bear’s new album is built from striking found sounds and samples: tribal drum beats, underwater sound effects, planes taking off, nonverbal vocal incantations and various other oddities. It’s all very innovative and unusual, just the sort of one-of-a-kind pastiche you’d expect from a member of Brooklyn’s pre-eminent experimental pop group, Animal Collective. What […]
game Nobody can say that photographer didn’t have it coming to him. Seriously. Harrassing my man Ludacris, all up in his grill and trying to get a picture. I had no choice but to bust that stalkerazzi.You know, gotta keep it real and all that. Ahem. Excuse me while I stuff my white-boy street schtick […]
“Both nationally and at UVA we are faced with high-volume, high-risk, and very serious illnesses,” Dr. Russ Federman said of campus counseling centers at a recent Senate committee hearing on campus safety. Following the Virginia Tech massacre, Federman has the ear of federal legislators under pressure to find fixes to prevent mentally ill students from […]
My day to talk with Dr. Russ Federman about mental health at UVA comes just two days after the Virginia Tech shooting.