Capitalism on the commune
In August 2004, Derek Breen went upstairs to check his e-mail. “My bedroom was right above the hammock shop,” he remembers. At the time, just over a year into his […]
Oakers among us
Devon Sproule, perennial favorite of the Charlottesville folk scene, just might be Twin Oaks’ best-known local alum. (She grew up there.) But she’s hardly the only ex-Oaker, as they call […]
Making a living
… Plenty of outsiders come. They’ll pull off I-64 at Shannon Hill, then follow the calm roads a few miles north into Louisa County. Along the way is the usual rural mix of trailers, tiny frame houses, more prosperous-looking farms.
The Clientele, with the Ladybug Transistor and the Great White Jenkins
music Catching a band at the beginning of a tour, when they’ve got a new album and they’re debuting songs onstage, one can often sense the freshness the group brings […]
A Streetcar Named Desire
stage Let me start with a confession. No matter how often I read or see it, I can’t find much depth in this 60-year-old classic of the American stage. Its […]
Dr. Dog
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, […]
Questing Through Chaos
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 […]
Over 80,000 historic county acres
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 […]
Crozet dreams of improved downtown
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 […]
County bridge out indefinitely
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