A jury on January 5 delivered a guilty verdict for Jermaine Leon Thurston, a 22-year-old who said he shot another man in self defense. Initially charged with second degree murder, Thurston acted without malice when he shot Lamont Antonio Reaves jurors decided in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, convicting him of voluntary manslaughter. On June 18, […]
A jury on January 5 delivered a guilty verdict for Jermaine Leon Thurston, a 22-year-old who said he shot another man in self defense. Initially charged with second degree murder, Thurston acted without malice when he shot Lamont Antonio Reaves jurors decided in the Charlottesville Circuit Court, convicting him of voluntary manslaughter. On June 18, […]
In an ongoing mystery surrounding a murder that happened in a Carlton Road trailer park in March 2004, the much-older boyfriend of 18-year-old Azlee Hickman has been arrested for perjury for statements he made during trial. Another man is already serving a sentence for accessory to Hickman’s murder, but prosecutors have yet to pin anyone […]
music It was the first time in a long time that felt like the presence of a “scene,” like Trax ’92 or The Hogwallers ’99. The Sons of Bill, who played their first ever gig one year ago opening for Monticello Road, used the holidays to their advantage for their anniversary show at Starr Hill […]
books Tell me about Infinite Jest. My God, how can I even begin? In 1996, David Foster Wallace was 34 when Infinite Jest, his second novel, was published. It was, in its hardcover first edition, 1,079 pages long, including 96 pages of endnotes. It was hyped and praised and criticized to the extent that its […]
Due to an editing error, we need to correct a correction in last week’s issue. (Are you following?) Last week’s correction (p. 19) stated that we incorrectly identified a circuit court judge candidate in our article “Who are you outside the law,” Courts & Crime News, December 19. That’s correct; however, we incorrectly corrected the […]
Dear Ace: I heard that police officers don’t have to write citations for every traffic accident. Is that true? What kind of discretion do they have?—Rex Carr Dear Rex: You and Ace are on the same wavelength: His car insurance premiums are pretty deadly, too. So what are the odds of making sure that fender-bender […]
The sky is dark, wrapped around the UVA Chapel, and the wind feels fit to bring down trees. Well below the deep brown, barrel-vaulted ceiling, Sarah White and the Pearls are setting up to play a gig…
Amid heaps of seeming junk in Oliver Kuttner’s workshop on E. Market Street sits a steel skeleton portending the next big building on the Downtown Mall, on the site of the former Boxer Learning center.
As the Downtown Mall continually snazzifies with boutiques and restaurants, vacant rental spaces supposedly get snapped up like hot cakes by businesses eager to join the bustle. If that’s true, then why are there so many Debbie Downer empty buildings spoiling the splendor? Not including buildings we know are currently being redeveloped, we confirmed roughly […]
In a tiny space in the Jefferson Theater, there’s a store with a big heart. Innisfree World Artisans takes its name from Crozet’s Innisfree Village (www.innisfreevillage.org), a community of mentally challenged adults, and sells village residents’ crafts (woven placemats and scarves, wooden cutting boards, and granola) as well as items from Ten Thousand Villages and […]