Dear Ace: If you’re at UVA, what’s that big house you can see across the way from Newcomb Hall? It looks highly historical. —Fool on the hill Fool: That’s not saying a whole lot, huh? Throw a rock south of Forest Lakes and you’re bound to do some property damage on something that’s "highly historical," […]
The close-cropped, brown-eyed bulk of a young man sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 9, 2000, and offered his thanks to the…
art It’s never a good sign when a person enters an art exhibit and feels dismissive. Usually the problem is with the viewer, not the work. Perhaps it’s a lack of education; then again, perhaps it’s a disappointed urge to get lost in something, or open something in the mind. A small sculpture show at […]
game Brian Urlacher spin-toss-tackling Clinton into the backfield. Mark Brunell pounding the turf in disgust at tossing his third INT. Santana Moss pointing skyward to celebrate a hard-won first down. It’s a reasonably sure bet that all of these things are going to be part of the Redskins’ 2008 NFL season. Thanks to the addition […]
On the closing track of Zion Crossroads, Corey Harris sings, "If you don't keep your culture/ along come many vultures/ See dem in the sky/ above the ground/ They see some flesh/ and they come swooping down."
Tuesday, August 28Hutto to Roanoke: No thanks The Roanoke Times chides the city’s government in an editorial today because of mixed signals city councilors apparently sent to Kirby Hutto, who runs the Charlottesville Pavilion for Red Light Management. Some Star City councilors approached Hutto and Red Light about managing a new amphitheater to be built […]
Compared to the equipment rental company there now, or the CVS pharmacy that almost went there, the seven-story, 101' tall building proposed by Richmond developer Bob Englander would seem to be just what the city ordered.
Like chicks around a hen, there’s a whole contingent of medical practices that cling to the skirts of Martha Jefferson Hospital within the leafy E. High Street neighborhood. The offices of internists, orthopedists and obstetricians fill converted houses and small office buildings along E. High Street, Jefferson Street and Locust Avenue. And, as the mother […]
Roughly a hundred or so people mill around in the Charlottesville City Council chambers Thursday night, finding seats, waiting for the Gang Awareness and Education Town Hall Meeting to begin.
Since 1998, a lone question tucked away on the government’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form has stopped at least 200,000 potential college students from receiving financial aid, according to the U.S. Department of Education. That was the year that Congress passed the Higher Education Act Aid Elimination Policy, adding a new FASFA […]