Double Vision
Dear Toby: Cut-throat competition, aggressive audience recruitment, and leg-breaking requests: Yes, it seems that local theater is quite the perilous industry. But blatant show-stealing?
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Double Vision
Dear Ace: What's up with the Paramount staging The Pirates of Penzance on the same day as Charlottesville's New Lyric Theatre?
Dear Toby: Cut-throat competition, aggressive audience recruitment, and leg-breaking requests: Yes, it seems that local theater is quite the perilous industry. But blatant show-stealing?
Jan Cornell is Opinionated
As a citizen of Virginia for 27 years, a union member, a single mom and a staunch Democrat, I feel compelled to write concerning George Felix Allen’s latest faux pas
Deer reader
I was driving through the countryside yesterday and I noticed three cute little deer in the road. I was appalled, however, to see that they were not crossing at a designated deer crossing area.
Washington will seek official exoneration
The facts of the long, sad story remain largely unchanged. In 1982, Rebecca Lynn Williams, then 19, was raped, stabbed 38 times and left to die on the doorstep of her apartment in Culpeper while her two children were in another room. Earl Washington, Jr., a farm worker with an I.Q. under 70, was convicted in the rape and capital murder. Washington served 17 years in prisonânine and a half of those on death rowâbefore DNA evidence cleared him in 2000, prompting reforms to Virginia’s notorious 21-day rule.
Shooter’s attorney says murder was self-defense
A grand jury will decide this month whether to maintain a second-degree murder charge for Jermaine Leon Thurston, 22, who fatally shot 21-year-old Lamont Antonio Reaves in June. If the charges hold, Thurston could serve up to 40 years.
City man turns himself in after shooting
Nineteen-year-old Marcel McArthur Turner of Riverside Avenue in Charlottesville turned himself in to police on Monday, August 21, after shooting and wounding another Charlottesville man. Turner shot the victim, Earl Dudley, who was riding in a car near the intersection of Carlton and Nassau streets in the Belmont neighborhood.
Will development send the market packing?
Following the Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review’s June approval of “Waterhouse”-he nine-story tower to be built between Water and South streetsâCharlottesville Tomorrow Executive Director Brian Wheeler wrote a letter to try to persuade Mayor David Brown to preserve two adjoining Water Street parking lots. One is the current location of the City Market.
Pantops master planning gets underway
Of any area in Charlottesville, Pantops—with its many car dealerships and strip malls lining Route 250 East—would seem an unlikely candidate for the planning stage (at least, at this point). Yet, on Tuesday, August 23, the Albemarle County Planning Commission undertook the first of three work sessions to discuss the preliminary draft of the Pantops […]
Meet Landonomics, Virginia’s premier development firm
The recent approval of the preliminary site plan for Albemarle Place leaves developers Landonomics eager to make themselves at home in Charlottesville. Roll out the welcome wagon, Charlottesville, it’s time to meet the new neighbors. Senior Vice President Steve Lucas says that he hopes Albemarle Place will be a successful follower to the company’s first […]