cd Scenes from a preteen wasteland. Nineteen-eighty-seven, the year Metal broke, the year I turned 12, the year I first got loaded like a freight train and the year Guns N’ Roses released Appetite For Destruction. It wasn’t Nirvana that killed Metal, it was G N’ R. It was this album. Nothing was ever going […]
music In modern society it’s easy to throw together pop culture fragments for entertaining results. Whether you’re flipping through the ridiculous parade of TV reality shows or getting down to Girl Talk‘s mash-up dance mixes, it’s not hard to find novelty and distraction. We like our postmodern art (especially when it comes to sights and […]
stage It would be hard to choose a better introduction to opera than Puccini’s tragicomic celebration of young love in poverty, with its accessible music, direct dialogue and realistic scenario. I’d find it almost as hard to imagine a better introduction to La Bohème than this production, sung in witty English verse by skilled and […]
There's always something on your mind, isn't there? Yet rare are the times when you get to unload those heavy thoughts. We here at C-VILLE feel your pain, which is why we give you a yearly opportunity to express yourself …
Best use of an apology: Hunter Craig. The county Planning Commission unanimously recommended denial the first time around on…
Once upon a time, one of the area’s most rollicking controversies was the Western Bypass, a six-mile stretch of road proposed to help through-traffic on Route 29 from D.C. to Lynchburg avoid the crawl through strip-mall hell. Meetings were held, letters were written, an endangered species was found, lawsuits were filed. Even as recently as […]
Last Wednesday the developers of two of the largest projects in the county stood before the Board of Supervisors and tried to get some of their money back. The August 8 Board work session was a chance for the developers of Biscuit Run and Hollymead Town Center to hear what kinds of proffers the county […]
Forgive the pun: In the local news business these days, there’s no shortage of leads on LEED. Briefly, that’s a national certification program for green—i.e., sustainable—buildings that’s setting the standards for a growing number of local projects. One recent example: Developers with the Belvedere project, an upcoming 700-unit, mixed-use neighborhood off Rio Road, told us […]
Felons already forfeit plenty of rights when they enter correctional facilities, but now inmates at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail (ACRJ) can add to that the lost privilege of paying the right price for a stamp. They pay 44 cents to purchase a first-class stamp, 3 cents more than those of us on the outside. That’s […]
No kid likes to be told that it's bedtime, but when kids become teenagers, police might be the ones enforcing the rules.