Who’s been on the C-VILLE 20 list? 2006 [20 for the moment] Sean Singletary, UVA basketball player John Grisham, novelist Bill Crutchfield, founder and CEO of Crutchfield Brian Bills, Charlottesville High School student and political activist Johnny St. Ours, filmmaker Kate Collier and Eric Gertner, owners of Feast! Abby Bellows, UVA student and activist for […]
Dear Ace: I thought the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court building was supposed to be finished by now, but every time I drive by it, it’s still under construction. What’s the deal?—Joe V. Hall Joe: Oh, no worries. The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court is still open for business. You can still press charges against […]
music A few hundred people were drawn to the Gravity Lounge last Friday night by The Voice. Iris DeMent, born in the northeast corner of Arkansas, burst onto the country/folk scene in 1992 with the album Infamous Angel, 11 songs sung in a toned-down version of The Voice. Over the years—whether because of evolution or […]
stage Despite its status as an archetypal Western tragedy, Sophocles’ tale of revealed parricide and incest still poses the problems that vex all Greek drama in modern production: the handling of the chorus, the question of music, the long and sometimes stilted-sounding exchanges of single lines (stichomythia). UVA director Betsy Tucker and her cast of […]
game The Lion Lady and the Juggling Guy have absolutely nothing on me. Y’see, I don’t have to resort to vocal trickery and subrate talent-show gimmicks to impress the judges on “American Idol.” I can just belt out a pitch-perfect, growl-worthy version of “Hungry Like the Wolf” from my couch. Karaoke Revolution presents: American Idol: […]
music The Hackensaw Boys have played with Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips, and have traveled to far off places like the Netherlands and France, but nothing beats a hometown show. Just as most of the Boys hail from nearby burgs like Crozet and Waynesboro, a good portion of Saturday night’s crowd came from the […]
Oof. That’s the only literal translation for the look on Chris Daughtry’s face at approximately 9:27 EST on May 10, 2006, as he stood on the dreaded sigil…
It took almost six hours to get to the point—approval or denial by the Planning Commission for the largest residential development in Albemarle history, Biscuit Run—but the moment
At a board meeting March 26 [download meeting agenda in PDF], the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority voted to approve an ambitious five-year capital-improvement plan that will prepare the area for the development—and ensuing waste—that’s to come. “We are presently challenged by the need for infrastructure improvements with respect to aging existing assets, more stringent […]
Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the proposal for a CVS on the corner of W. Main Street and McIntire Road, plans are in the works for a nine-story building on the site currently occupied by RSC Equipment Rental. Richmond developer Bob Englander has brought some preliminary sketches before the city’s Board of […]