stage One measure of a dramatic production is its success in bringing out qualities not apparent to a reader. On seeing director Francine Smith’s Old Times, I realized I had overlooked much of the play’s humor amid the ominous stares, pregnant silences and coded commonplaces that were expected features of Harold Pinter’s 1971 script. Such […]
Two parents who were convicted of providing alcohol to minors, and who tried to take their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be forced to serve a 27-month sentence.
Police now have three people in custody who, they suspect, fired bullets into a crowd of youths on Prospect Avenue on March 2, seriously injuring a 16-year-old Charlottesville High School student. One suspect is in custody at the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail. Another is still in New York City, where he was picked up by […]
A cart full of about 20 laptop computers, meant as teaching tools for city elementary kids, was stolen, along with two desktop computers, on June 7, Charlottesville police say. The computers, many of them new, white Apple MacBooks, are worth about $25,000 total. Sometime after 6pm last Thursday, police suspect, one or more robbers broke […]
Shoppers’ World has been bought by the owners of Barracks Road Shopping Center, Federal Realty Investment Trust.
Maple Hill Farm, an organic farm near Scottsville where Dave Matthews’ Best of What’s Around operation is based, plans to house seasonal interns on its facility to learn the farming trade. According to farm manager Matthew Holt, this move comes in the midst of a growing trend among organic farms to take on willing interns […]
Construction continues on the Watson Manor project, but the dust has settled from a neighborhood/developer dispute about the life (and death) of a 150-year-old beech tree. The project was halted last August after the manager for UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture, David Turner, violated the site plan by cutting down the 48" caliper […]
Hackers feasted on the personal information of 5,735 current and former UVA faculty members, including their birth dates and social security numbers, on 54 separate days between May 2005 and April 2007, a press release from University Relations announced on June 8. While identify theft at UVA might not be push-button easy, hackers have weaseled […]
Orphaned in the midst of UVA Health System construction is a small, 0.7-acre strip of land owned by VAParc LLC. It would seem that the University would want that strip, a parking lot with 63 spaces valued at $1.3 million, to join the construction orgy all around it. Couldn’t UVA use that acreage for, say, […]
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a well-known illness: A traumatizing event happens to someone and they experience trouble sleeping, memory loss and trouble learning new