Fundraising gets fishy
It’s been said that the Wahoo, the fish that shares its name with UVA students, can drink twice its weight in water. But the Wahoo isn’t all play—this heavy drinkin’ […]
Mental health funding subpar
Poor funding for the mental health care system has long been an issue for state legislators. But focus has returned to the state of mental health care since the shootings […]
Parkway interchange design gets support
The four-decade debate on the Meadowcreek Parkway has a new image: Interchange Alternative C1, which could also be known as The Rotund Roundabout.
Imagine a world…
Gather ’round, proud citizens of Charlottesville, and hear tell of a golden land that your city leaders have envisioned. Imagine a world where every worker has a well-paying, career-ladder job. […]
Signing in the rain
It’s hard out here for a protestor. But a drizzly afternoon didn’t deter a handful of locals who came out to the First Amendment Monument on May 2, following President […]
Corrections from previous issue
Due to a production error, the below image of Helen Horal did not appear with the caption on page 37 of our last issue. [It was, however, posted correctly on […]
Walling woes
Dear Ace: Recently, I was driving past the Old Trail development out in Crozet and saw that they’d built a tall screening fence along Jarman’s Gap Road. I noticed that […]
The man who would be king
Brace yourself, kids—we’re kick-starting this week’s column with a controversial, you-heard-it-here-first prediction: Senator John Warner will retire at the end of this, his fifth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
stage On April 23, William Shakespeare’s moldering corpse celebrated its 443rd year on this planet. The Bard’s body has little to hope for, besides one more year of slow decay. […]
Person Pitch
cd Panda Bear’s new album is built from striking found sounds and samples: tribal drum beats, underwater sound effects, planes taking off, nonverbal vocal incantations and various other oddities. It’s […]