After a $1 million item in the city’s budget caused a stir earlier this year among the region’s volunteer rescue staff and taxpayers over whether a city ambulance service was even necessary, city officials instead said the money would be spent on “system-wide improvements.” Officials also pushed for the contents of a regional fire and […]
After a $1 million item in the city’s budget caused a stir earlier this year among the region’s volunteer rescue staff and taxpayers over whether a city ambulance service was even necessary, city officials instead said the money would be spent on “system-wide improvements.” Officials also pushed for the contents of a regional fire and […]
The first Saturday of June, Charlottesville Democrats will gather at 1pm in the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center to nominate three candidates for November’s 2008 City Council race. It will be only the fourth time that voters will cast their votes directly for the nominees. It used to be that candidates were selected […]
The following trailer is courtesy of Han West. His film, "Brothers Manor," will be premiering on Wednesday, May 2nd. [Read more in this week’s C-VILLE story Casting Movies in a New Light] For more work by Han West go to:www.irisincus.com
On August 21, 2004, a resident of Friendship Court called the police for assistance in a domestic dispute. When the officers arrived on the scene, the suspect, Kerry Cook, though unarmed, resisted arrest. The subsequent scuffle ended when one of the cops shot Cook, a 31-year-old African-American man, once in the stomach—resulting in a coma […]
Dear Ace: I know gambling is illegal in Virginia. Is online gambling O.K.? —Tex S. Holdem Tex: Kenny Rogers’ rotisserie chicken chain may have gone belly-up, but his wisdom springs eternal: You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away and know when to run. But […]
Rent eats up our paychecks on the first of the month. The price of gas is still through the roof. Insurance costs an arm and a leg, and, let’s be honest— work sucks.
words Eclectic, heterogeneous, multifarious—spiffy words that, either by themselves or lined up like cherries on a slot machine, can’t truly capture the range of material in any given issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review. Trying to absorb it all seems to produce a mass of tiny bubbles in the brain, and the only way to […]
stage The collegiate cast of Hair—and most of the audience on opening night last week—could be forgiven for thinking the recurring song “Manchester” was an homage to the birthplace of the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays. For though the musical is 40 years old, under Thadd McQuade’s direction it seems to be located nowhere […]
music In high school, I played the Tokyo Rose basement for my one and only time as the bassist for Moments Without. That band now goes by the name Worn in Red, and on Friday night I saw their show at the renovated Tokyo Rose. The Rose basement is a much different place than when […]
Steve Ferguson was born to be a game warden. His father was a game warden, his uncle still is. When he was in the sixth grade,