Goode grief
Look, I feel compelled to make one thing perfectly clear: Despite all evidence to the contrary, the purpose of this column is not to exclusively chronicle the ongoing foibles of Charlottesville’s U.S. Representative Virgil H. Goode
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Goode grief
It's not that we hate bashing Virgil Goode...
Look, I feel compelled to make one thing perfectly clear: Despite all evidence to the contrary, the purpose of this column is not to exclusively chronicle the ongoing foibles of Charlottesville’s U.S. Representative Virgil H. Goode
Walk this way
Don: To answer your question, Ace went straight to the source: the Code of Virginia (for Ace’s less legally inclined readers, that’s the big book of laws that breaks down what you can and can’t do in the Old Dominion). Unfortunately, Ace got a little distracted once he flipped to the section on traffic violations. […]
Correction from previous issue
Due to a reporting error, public housing advocate Holly Edwards was identified last week [“City public housing faces huge cuts,” Government News] as a public housing resident in Westhaven. In fact, she is a Belmont homeowner. C-VILLE regrets the error.
“Cast Off Your Idylls! Cast Off Your Sloth!”
art The Bridge is the artspace du jour taking a turn as foil to the well-funded and celebrity-approved galleries that occupy prominent Downtown Mall storefronts. And a welcome foil it is; let us rejoice that our art scene has the vital fringe it needs. (One might even call playful, non-commercial art the center, rather than […]
Deerhoof, with Harlem Shakes, and Flying
music Last fall, I attended the Flaming Lips’ gloriously flamboyant show at the Charlottesville Pavilion. Deerfhoof opened that night and they seemed dwarfed by the whole thing: the set, the venue, the Lips. On Saturday night, though, they dominated the closed confines of the Satellite Ballroom, saturating the room with brilliant white noise. Deerhoof’s John […]
The African Company Presents Richard III
stage Before there were docu-dramas or historical fictions, there were Shakespeare’s histories—just enough fact to make a good story believable and a believable story great. Playwright Carlyle Brown takes the origin of America’s first black theater company and twists it wonderfully into a history within a history and a play within a play for Culbreth […]
Akron/Family, with The Great White Jenkins
music In the world of indie and experimental music, bands of unclassifiable weirdness end up on lo-fi legend Michael Gira’s tiny imprint, Young God Records. And Akron/Family is unclassifiably weird. The evening at Satellite Ballroom started with Richmond transplants The Great White Jenkins, who sound something like Harvest-era Neil Young filtered through a more melodic […]
Opening the door
By some measures, UVA is pretty affordable. The elite state school that benchmarks itself against privates like Cornell, Stanford and Duke still offers a price tag that’s truer to its public school mandate: about $17,700 a year for in-state students and more than $35,600 for out-of-staters.
"Part church and part car dealer"
March is high season for college admissions offices. The applications are in and deans are juggling: athletes, quiz show champs, active volunteers, math whizzes, minorities, kids with disabilities, kids who’ve composed symphonies, kids with perfect SAT scores—sometimes all of these things at once—all vying to get into a top school. Apparently, many factors go into […]
Read on
Volumes have been written on equality and higher ed. Here’s a short list: Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin. Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, by Peter Sacks, due in May. College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? Edited by […]