music Halfway through their sleek, glacial opening set, Tin Cup Prophette’s Bjork-channeling lead singer offered her thanks to Jeff Tweedy, frontman for the rock group Wilco. “It’s great when super-successful artists can bring ‘risks’ on tour,” she said before introducing another tune mired in the looped plucks of a violin. But what makes a risk? […]
music Halfway through their sleek, glacial opening set, Tin Cup Prophette’s Bjork-channeling lead singer offered her thanks to Jeff Tweedy, frontman for the rock group Wilco. “It’s great when super-successful artists can bring ‘risks’ on tour,” she said before introducing another tune mired in the looped plucks of a violin. But what makes a risk? […]
dance In a way, the crowd that shoved its way to the front of the stage for The Rapture’s first visit to Charlottesville was like a Russian Imperial ballet company. Not because the 20somethings that squeezed in to shake it to the post-punk disco rompers were dressed in toe shoes or turning 32 fouettés to […]
stage Run Rain Man, 48 Hours, Stalin, Mother Goose, The Brothers Grimm and The Passion of The Christ through the mind of Stephen King, add a dash of Kafka, a smidgeon of James Kilpatrick and a Beijing Book Review and you’ll have The Pillowman. It’s easy to see why Martin McDonagh’s work won an Olivier […]
Correction appended Dear Ace: I was a little sad that, for all the local press, former Virginia running back Thomas Jones couldn’t lead the Bears to victory on Sunday. How many Wahoos have been able to claim Super Bowl glory?—Lacy Supp Lacy: What’s new, pussycat? For Thomas Jones, crushing disappointment. But hey, chin up: There […]
In the mid-winter night in coastal South Carolina, on an island just north of Hilton Head’s luxury and just south of Beaufort’s history, a bus pulls up under a floodlight that is casting a ghostly pallor in front of the steel doors of a homely and institutional brick building.
Even as President Bush is ordering an increase in the U.S. military presence in Iraq, two Virginia senators—both former Marines—are calling for a different policy. Newly elected Democrat Jim Webb took Bush to task in his rebuttal to the State of the Union address: “The president took us into this war recklessly. …We are now, […]
Marines account for 28 percent of U.S. military casualtiesThe Iraq War and the Marines by the numbers Total active duty U.S. troops: 1.3 millionPercentage that are Marines: 13 Total U.S. troops in Iraq: 138,000Percentage that are Marines: 18 U.S. military deaths in Iraq, as of January 31: 3,076Percentage that were Marines: 28 Iraqi civilian deaths, […]
In the wee hours of January 29, two UVA students were sexually assaulted in the Corner/Wertland Street area between 12:30am and 2:30am. Though the incidents were no doubt scary and have Corner-hoppers on edge, the women reported their attacker was, well, kind of lame. Around 12:30, a 21-year-old student was walking home from Satellite Ballroom. […]
A former Albemarle High School JV girls’ soccer coach entered a plea agreement with federal prosecutors February 1 on counts of child pornography, attempting to obtain child pornography, and coercing minors into sexual acts over the Internet. Raja Charles Jabbour’s agreement says he will serve nine years in prison, then be deported from the country, […]
On Monday, February 5, the capital murder trial of Anthony Dale Crawford got underway at the Charlottesvile Circuit Court.