Robert plays a flute. Standing in front of the Jefferson Theater, he places the thin metal instrument up to his lips and blows, the sweet sounds wafting up and down the Mall. Inside a black fedora on the ground are five copper pennies. “I need to get a new shirt,” he says. “And something to […]
In 1995, on a couch in Boston, Peter Agelasto sat up suddenly and said, “Monkeyclaus! That’s what I’m going to do with the rest of my life!” He then went to India to try and figure out what that meant. Going bananas: Matthew Clark (left) and Abel Okugawa (right) behind the boards for a recording […]
It’s nominating season for local political parties hoping to select candidates to carry the elections in November. In addition to positions like the Board of Supervisors, a few of Albemarle County’s most important “law and order” jobs are also up for grabs. Veteran defense attorney Denise Y. Lunsford received the Democrats’ bid to challenge Commonwealth’s […]
A 27-year-old former legal secretary pleaded guilty May 16 to defrauding her boss, a Louisa County lawyer, for more than $145,000 in credit card charges and bank withdrawals she made in his name. The case reads like a bad novel. Paula Jean Hufner was a secretary for what court documents call “Acme Law Firm,” and […]
As of 2004, 1 percent of the inmates in Virginia prisons were known to be HIV positive. That’s around eight times the rate of HIV cases in the total state population according
Last summer, River Heights Associates, a company largely controlled by Wendell Wood, filed suit in the Albemarle County Circuit Court against Regency Centers Corporation, DRG
One item on City Council’s consent agenda hit a snag at a meeting May 7. A special use permit for a small apartment building to be built on a one-acre site on Jefferson Park Avenue threw Council into the ongoing debate about how the city is supposed to house all the ’Hoos. Robby Noll of […]
Since 2002, the Brownell Metal Studio has produced everything from grates at the Darden School to gorgeous custom furniture. “What we do is high-quality, high-end architectural metalwork,” says Brownell. “I’d never say anything about the other shops in Charlottesville, but we do things differently.” The local boom in upper-crust construction allowed Steve Brownell to open […]
The title is lost. We are no longer No. 1 in Cities: Ranked and Rated, the 2nd edition of the book put out by Frommer’s (guidebook of the upper-middle class tourists yearning to hit the respectable talking-point sites on the next family vacation). Charlottesville has fallen, in fact, to No. 17 in the list of […]
Four of the five Democratic candidates for City Council recently met at Fry’s Spring Beach Club to discuss their positions on various issues facing the neighborhood off Old Lynchburg Road and Jefferson Park Avenue. Only months ago, a contingent of elderly retired residents from the neighborhood forced the Council into agreeing to make various improvements […]