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 […]
Def Jam: Icon
game Nobody can say that photographer didn’t have it coming to him. Seriously. Harrassing my man Ludacris, all up in his grill and trying to get a picture. I had […]
Getting by
“Both nationally and at UVA we are faced with high-volume, high-risk, and very serious illnesses,” Dr. Russ Federman said of campus counseling centers at a recent Senate committee hearing on […]
The life of the mind
My day to talk with Dr. Russ Federman about mental health at UVA comes just two days after the Virginia Tech shooting.
Overturned Virginia law will be reconsidered
Virginia’s ban on a specific type of abortion procedure (which the General Assembly called “partial birth infanticide”) may go into effect after all. The 2003 law, which made it a Class 4
Man dies after Wood Grill Robbery
A 48-year-old man died at UVA Hospital April 24, succumbing to injuries from a robbery and beating at the Wood Grill Buffet two weeks earlier. The robbery-turned-homicide marks the first […]