music Like many a band’s first “official” album, Dr. Dog’s 2005 release Easy Beat was a furious and arresting microcosm of everything they had to say. Or at the least, listening to We All Belong, their 2007 follow-up, I got that sense. Where Easy Beat had a sense of urgency, a need to stomp their […]
cd Only a year old and Kate Starr’s three-piece band has already reached the finals of Lollapalooza’s Last Band Standing contest, opened for acclaimed shoegazers Asobi Seksu and played New York City nearly as many times as they’ve played Charlottesville. Starr has an impressive array of artsy publicity photos, and she’s built a distinct image […]
A huge swath of southern Albemarle County has been nominated for inclusion in two historical area lists. The 83,627 acres proposed—which lie between the Rivanna and James rivers—would be the largest historic district in Virginia, and the third largest east of the Mississippi. This swath of 83,627 acres in southern Albemarle is under consideration to […]
Many Crozetians like to have their world apart from Charlottesville. They have their own monthly newspaper, their own July 4 fireworks display and their own pizza. At their town-hall style meeting May 10, residents at the Crozet Community Association said they wanted their own recycling center—“not like the one in Charlottesville.” The Community Planning and […]
The Advance Mills bridge on Route 743 in northern Albemarle County is closed indefinitely after an April inspection revealed several areas of deterioration in the ancient structure’s
How open should an “open ideas” competition be? That’s the question at the center of a debate among city planners and members of a steering committee tasked with drawing up guidelines for the Water Street parking lots design competition. The City Market’s days on the Water Street parking lot may be numbered—but draft guidelines for […]
Two teens, accused of making and planting fake bombs at Henley Middle and Brownsville Elementary schools in Albemarle County, appeared in court Wednesday, May 9. But the judge closed the proceedings, and prosecutors have shared very little about what will happen next to the 13-year-old teens. On March 27, three cylindrical packages were discovered around […]
“Can I say he was definitely 100 percent part of the Bloods, no I cannot say that.” Those are the words of U.S. Marshal David Thomas in reference to Ryan Martez Turner, an 18-year-old Charlottesville man who was wanted on one count of capital murder and was apprehended by marshals in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday, […]
There are many signs in Charlottesville and Albemarle County that reflect the strain growth is increasingly placing on the area, from the inadequacy of sewer infrastructure to a limited
Parents send their kids to college for a safe environment where they can earn a degree and learn to be independent adults. So, when things go awry at universities, colleges—the supposed safe havens—can expect to get sued. Though no lawsuits have been filed yet, April’s Virginia Tech shooting could prompt the parents of victims to […]