The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, our area’s signature symphony, opens its 2006-2007 season with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in October, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in November and a Holiday concert in December. And they’ve got something else special this year: a new conductor, who just happens to have one more X chromosome than most […]
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, our area’s signature symphony, opens its 2006-2007 season with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in October, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in November and a Holiday concert in December. And they’ve got something else special this year: a new conductor, who just happens to have one more X chromosome than most […]
All this talk of “phasing” and “clustering” and “mountain overlay” has many residents of the rural areas in a real lather. Those folks need to look at the other side of the coin.
Dear Ace: Know any jokes?âHumor S. Thompson
Dear Humor: Hey, was a Moses a Jew? Ace Atkins, master punster, was voted by his high school classmates Most Likely to Get a Laugh!
MusicTuesday, September 12The Flaming Lips. $35, 6pm. Charlottesville Pavilion, Downtown Mall, 877-CPAV-TIX.Mark Rock solo and other acts perform as part of the Jamie Dyer Presents series. No cover, 8pm. Outback Lodge, 917 Preston Ave., 979-7211.Flaming Lips after-party featuring The Damnwells. $8-10, 10pm. Starr Hill Music Hall, 977-0017.Howling Hex. $7, 10pm. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Downtown […]
With more homes comes more traffic. And those in the Fry’s Spring Neighborhood Association (FSNA) are sick of those extra cars on Old Lynchburg Road.
Albemarle Place is all but a done deal—a deal that in the next several years will bring 700 residential units, a new hotel, roughly 40 shops and a giant movie theater to Route 29, just north of Hydraulic Road. What does all this new development mean for the congestion triangle at Route 250, Route 29, […]
Though a recent spate of high density projects in the Fifeville neighborhood have run into serious snafus, in large part because of neighborhood dissent, the local chapter of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity is looking to add 23 units to the neighborhood. Joining with private developers, Habitat will appear September 13 before the City Planning […]
The FDA last month approved emergency contraceptive Plan B for over-the-counter use, and University of Virginia Student Health Center will sell the drug that way as soon as the product is repackaged. Student health officials and local Planned Parenthood workers are bracing for the political fallout of the drug becoming more available. “Certainly we are […]
The University of Virginia Foundation, which manages University financial and real estate holdings, would like to double the size of the Fontaine Research Park.
Working out of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Ann Mills and Patty Tereskerz research ethics and policy in health care. They’re not, as Mills says, “basic scientists.” Rather, they examine how policies and legislation concerning research—specifically biomedical research—affect scientific pursuits. In July they published an article in Nature Biotechnology that questions whether recent suggestions from […]