Sure, Charlottesville has seen the top of plenty of best-of lists. But recently the area ranked No. 1 in a study [A PDF version of the study is available here] that’s one ugly black eye for the community. According to the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), African Americans in Charlottesville received high-cost loans 3.9 times […]
A 101′-tall building was to come to the rescue of plans for a CVS on the corner of W. Main and McIntire, but a pharmacy at the current location of RSC Equipment Rental is no longer likely. "We’re working under the premise that it’s out," says site developer Bob Englander. "We think it makes for […]
After smacking bottom at the end of 2006, the Charlottesville-area real estate market has leveled off, despite a 17 percent drop in sales from this time last year. That’s according to the Mid-Year Market Report [PDF version of the report available here] from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR), which says now that we’ve […]
Soil on Route 29N always seems to be in a state of upheaval, though not always with concrete plans in the works. When we reported last year on this 35-acre Albemarle County site, north of Airport Road, we were told the earth movements were simply to keep active a site plan for an 80,000-square-foot building, […]
music As I arrived at Outback Lodge, San Francisco’s Sweet Crude Bill and the Lighthouse Nautical Society were finishing up their second song. As a burst of vocal warbles and aggressive guitar strums punctuated the piece, Peter Agelasto from Monkeyclaus, the Nelson County studio/art farm where the band started out, told me that Bill was […]
Dear Ace: I remember going to Ash Lawn when I was younger and seeing a whole colony of peacocks wandering the grounds. I went recently and there were just a few. Where’d they all go?—Courteney P. Cox Courteney: Monticello gets all the love, but Ace has always been partial to James Monroe’s Ash Lawn-Highland. The […]
cd “If we are here not to do/ what you and I wanna do/ and go forever crazy with it,/ why the hell we are even here?” asks Eugene Hutz at the opening of Super Taranta. Then, with a guttural cry, he summons the rest of the band into the mix, and immediately you want […]
stage It’s opening night for The Tell-Tale Heart and the Mind of Poe, and things don’t look good for the Endstation Theatre Company, the troupe staging this dramatic analysis of the great Southern writer (and one-time UVA student) Edgar Allan Poe. The small, third-floor theater is far from overflowing—the audience outnumbers the seven-person cast by […]
game Overlord cackles and crackles with the droll and dastardly spirit of Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog’s late-’90s series of games that cast you as an evil force bent on building up an empire of minions to crush those goody-goody heroes once and for all. As Dick Cheney proves to us every single day, there’s nothing quite […]
One early morning this spring, I walked through the door at Labor Ready, a day laborer employment service on W. Main Street, and took my place among the 30 or so people who had congregated at 5:30am looking for work.