Construction around Culbreth Theatre has put the season on hold for the Heritage Repertory Theatre. With the student population diminished and the daylight extended, summer is the season for building. New homes for research, classes, cars and students are in the works. Don’t expect a lot of construction to wrap up this year, however—2008 looks […]
Fireworks danced again this year for the roughly 3,000 UVA alumni and family members who came back for reunion weekend from the 10 classes invited. It was the highest attendance yet for the weekend, which brings back classes at five-year intervals. While UVA has been graduating classes since the days of Jefferson, the official reunion […]
Pity the stenographer who gets a little confused: Kappa Sigma Fraternity, a 234-chapter organization founded in 1869 at UVA with its national headquarters in Charlottesville, has initiated a lawsuit against the Kappa Sigma Memorial Foundation. The Fraternity’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court on May 16, alleges that the Foundation has been unlawfully using trademarked […]
The smash-and-grab job at Union Bank and Trust on Friday, June 1, came courtesy of members of the city police department. At roughly 9am, a city employee called the city police after watching 38-year-old Jeffrey Alan Adams (below)—a resident of Fredericksburg—enter the bank and lock it from the inside (“They have a deadbolt situation,” explained […]
It won’t be a long haul to the City Market. On May 31, children helped break ground on an “urban farm” in the field beside Friendship Court, the housing complex just to the south of the Downtown Mall. The Urban Agriculture Project, funded by the Blue Moon Fund, is hoping to get local organic food […]
Neatly wrapped in the politically correct banter of sustainability, local human population control is gathering steam in Albemarle County. This charge is being led by a vocal minority “not in my backyard” (NIMBY) tying population control concepts to environmental preservation or sustainability. The elitist NIMBY vision of economic freedom is now that I own my […]
On May 9 the Albemarle Board of Supervisors voted to include funding in their new budget for a rural areas support position in the county planning department. Support for this
This week at The Odd Dominion, we’re going to take a rest from lampooning the Commonwealth’s elected representatives. For a change of pace, we thought we’d take a
Dear Ace: Why is Water Street next to the Downtown Mall called Water Street? I’ve been up and down the street plenty of times, but I’ve never seen any water.—H. Choo Oh H.: This is an easy one. Any Charlottesvillian worth his or her salt knows that Water Street is named for Thomas Jefferson’s buddy […]