When Charlottesville Police Captain J.E. “Chip” Harding discovered about 20 percent of local felons who should have been included in the State DNA databank were missing, officials got pretty excited about solving the presumably statewide problem. House Bill 3034, sponsored by Albemarle Delegate Rob Bell, would grant authority and set up a system for swabbing […]
When Charlottesville Police Captain J.E. “Chip” Harding discovered about 20 percent of local felons who should have been included in the State DNA databank were missing, officials got pretty excited about solving the presumably statewide problem. House Bill 3034, sponsored by Albemarle Delegate Rob Bell, would grant authority and set up a system for swabbing […]
Ed Robb, Albemarle sheriff since January 2000, has announced he won’t run for re-election. Two potential sheriffs have announced their candidacy: Current Charlottesville Police Captain J.E. “Chip” Harding will likely snag the Republican nomination and Larry Claytor, who has run before as an independent, will seek the Democratic nomination. Robb, who will turn 70 this […]
Judge Edward L. Hogshire found Region Ten Community Services Board (www.regionten.org) to be in violation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (www.usdoj.gove) for holding a closed meeting last February to discuss The Mews, a housing complex for its mentally disabled clients, The Daily Progress reports. Region Ten, a local mental health agency, will have […]
Due to a production error, the final sentence of last week’s feature story, “Something in the air,” a quote from Avir’s Keith Holland, was cut short [in our print edition]. The correct sentence is: “If we happen to make money along the way—as Dr. Laufer says—we won’t complain about that either.”
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, […]