music The Hackensaw Boys have played with Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips, and have traveled to far off places like the Netherlands and France, but nothing beats a hometown show. Just as most of the Boys hail from nearby burgs like Crozet and Waynesboro, a good portion of Saturday night’s crowd came from the […]
music The Hackensaw Boys have played with Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips, and have traveled to far off places like the Netherlands and France, but nothing beats a hometown show. Just as most of the Boys hail from nearby burgs like Crozet and Waynesboro, a good portion of Saturday night’s crowd came from the […]
Oof. That’s the only literal translation for the look on Chris Daughtry’s face at approximately 9:27 EST on May 10, 2006, as he stood on the dreaded sigil…
It took almost six hours to get to the point—approval or denial by the Planning Commission for the largest residential development in Albemarle history, Biscuit Run—but the moment
At a board meeting March 26 [download meeting agenda in PDF], the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority voted to approve an ambitious five-year capital-improvement plan that will prepare the area for the development—and ensuing waste—that’s to come. “We are presently challenged by the need for infrastructure improvements with respect to aging existing assets, more stringent […]
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the proposal for a CVS on the corner of W. Main Street and McIntire Road, plans are in the works for a nine-story building on the site currently occupied by RSC Equipment Rental. Richmond developer Bob Englander has brought some preliminary sketches before the city’s Board of […]
If you ride Charlottesville buses this spring, expect to run into a lot more University students, faculty and staff. They’re all getting free rides on city and county bus lines beginning Monday, April 2. Why do ‘Hoos skip the bill while the rest of us cough up our 75 cents? Well for one thing, UVA […]
In 2001, Cellular Materials International (CMI) was formed to commercialize technology invented at UVA by Haydn Wadley, a materials science and engineering professor. A year later, CMI received the first of many Department of Defense contracts for a type of cellular technology that held promise as a low-weight, high-strength protective paneling, making it ideal for […]
Last month, UVA launched a new home-page, its first website redesign since 2004. The site includes one feature uncommon to university websites: an “Especially For Kids” page aimed at the more diminutive Cavalier. “Want to learn more about UVA?!!” it implores. Try the “UVA Lingo” word scramble and find phrases like “Grounds,” “The Corner” and […]
In the most exciting academic standoff since the Noam Chomsky-Christopher Hitchens cage match of ’02 (Chomsky felled the sodden neo-con with a folding chair), residents of UVA’s
The March 27 discovery of several suspicious items—three cylindrical packages at Henley Middle School and one at Brownsville Elementary, as well as a written threat taped to the