No girls allowed?
Dear Lylith: In the interest of fairness, Ace feels compelled to point out that there’s actually a number of female performers at the Pavilion this year. Three, to be exact.
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No girls allowed?
Dear Ace: Has anyone noticed something missing from this season's list of acts at the Pavilion? There is not a single female act on the bill this year. What's up with this?
Dear Lylith: In the interest of fairness, Ace feels compelled to point out that there’s actually a number of female performers at the Pavilion this year. Three, to be exact.
News from lake glow-be-gone
Dear A. Tom: Ace positively radiates with joy when he can answer readers’ questions, and yours is no exception. And so, to really melt down to the core of your query, Ace snapped on his triple-ply gore-tex gloves and dug into a heaping, radioactive pile of the truth.
Dean of African-American affairs placed on leave
UVA’s Dean of African-American Affairs M. Rick Turner was placed on administrative leave on Friday, July 14, after signing an agreement with federal prosecutors to avoid prosecution. According to the feds, Turner lied about his knowledge concerning the activities of a drug dealer in a July 2005 investigation.
Middle East questions for David Waldner
We recently sat down with David Waldner, a UVA professor of comparative politics and the author of the book State Building and Late Development, to try and make sense of the current dust-up between Israel and Lebanon. Hostilities in the region exploded when members of the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers on July […]
Cetta on affordable housing
Local developer (and UVA graduate) Vito Cetta has been building in Albemarle and Charlottesville for 16 years. His company, Weather Hill Homes, has developed many properties, including Wickham Pond in Crozet and White Gables near Farmington. As the County has established an affordable housing policy, Cetta, who serves on the County housing committee, has responded.
ACLU joins fight for Region Ten info
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote a letter on Monday, July 17, to the Region Ten Community Services Board requesting they provide a list of things discussed at a closed meeting that took place on February 13. The meeting concerned The Mews at Little High project, a much-contested residential community for people with mental […]
Fifeville project raises questions about infill
The recent rejection of a Fifeville development by the City Planning Commission highlights ambiguities about the urban planning concept of infill, which focuses development on filling vacant city lots rather than building outwards on undeveloped land. Mark Saunders, who is developing 1000 and 1002 Grove St. with V.G. Sullivan, thinks the rejection concerns more than […]
UVA snuggles up to HealthSouth
The UVA Medical Center is planning to create a new long-term acute care hospital somewhere in Albemarle County. The venture will be a 50/50 partnership with Alabama-based HealthSouth Corporation, one of the largest health care service providers in the United States. The new 40-bed facility will serve the clinical needs of acute patients who require […]
School of rock
O.K., Professor Nick Rubin might not be a slovenly, hard-rocking and somewhat deranged substitute teacher at a private school—and his students probably won’t end up competing in a local battle of the bands—but we still can’t resist a course titled “History of Rock and Roll.” In Rubin’s class, connoisseurs of this thing we call “rock” […]