The item on the consent agenda for City Council’s July 30 meeting doesn’t seem to warrant much notice: "Appropriation: $439,000—Transfer from Housing Initiatives Fund to Piedmont Housing Alliance/Habitat for Humanity." At every meeting, money, much of it in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, gets shuffled into and out of city coffers, and Council this […]
Charlottesville City Councilor Kevin Lynch admits that building a road is, in his words, "like getting your teeth drilled." As the Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) moves nearer to a construction date, he’s wondering why the city is the only one with dentist appointments. When deciding whether to grant easements for the Meadowcreek Parkway, City Council has […]
It’s getting drier around here. After the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) declared a drought watch last week, area streams ran at only 18 percent of their normal level, down from 25 percent in mid-July (C-VILLE used poor wording last week that suggested levels were at 75 percent of normal—kudos to keen-eyed readers who […]
Dear Ace: What with all the history around here, is there anyone in Charlottesville who does historical re-enactments?—Lee N. Grant Lee: Well, there are those folks over at Ash Lawn-Highland, including a slave re-enactor that is certainly one of the stranger blurrings of the whole re-enactment thing that Ace has ever come across, but Ace […]
cd From the first lonesome strum to the final handclap-fueled sing-along, Bishop Allen‘s The Broken String twists my stomach in a giddy knot and sends my head floating away with its light-as-air hooks. Since teaching themselves the art of positive energy on Charm School, their self-released 2003 debut, Bishop Allen have been the authors of […]
gallery It’s the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love: Aging dinosaur rock bands lumber onwards, Baby Boomers are patting themselves on the back for having changed the world and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find accurate documents of the late ’60s, much less ones with any level of grace or insight. Get your mojo […]
game It’s just one more digitized testament to our national football jones: Training camps don’t start until August, but our football videogames now come out in July. The big dog, EA’s Madden 08, doesn’t take the field for a few more weeks, but we’ve already got two solid options to toss around. Live in the […]
We admit it: We’ve got Washington envy. It often seems as though that nonstop traffic jam across the Potomac has more of everything the Odd Dominion holds dear
book “This book contains every piece of art that was visible to the public at The Museum of Modern Art from January 19 to January 31, 2005.” The flatness of this declaration, printed on the book’s inside front cover, reverberates in its stark black-and-white presentation throughout, as expressionless as a pamphlet on fire prevention. This […]
cd Listen to Loving You by Richelle Claiborn with Andy Rowland on alto sax: powered by ODEOCourtesy of Richelle Claiborne – Thank you! There is something to be said for conviction, that lock-jawed, tooth-grinding determination to not simply say something, but to, you know, mean it. A million musicians may play the same three-chord tune […]