music With all the mesh shirts, laced corsets and school girl skirts favored by women in the local goth scene, I could have easily been distracted at Outback Lodge on January 6. But not even all that exposed flesh could take my attention away from In Tenebris, the night’s headline act. The band offers a […]
Dear Ace: I hear that the City of Charlottesville keeps getting awards for its website, yet I cannot even locate basic recycling info on there. What’s the deal with these contests? Are they a field of one?—Marie Internette Dear Marie: You heard right. This fall, www.charlottesville.org was given the Pinnacle Award by the National Association […]
In these times when the label “genre-defying” is itself the newest kind of po-mo genre, Will Eno’s 2004 play, Thom Pain (based on nothing), is the rare example of a work of art that earns the label.
Some State lawmakers are dead set on restricting women’s access to contraceptions and abortions, introducing legislation year after year to do just that. To explain the 2007 versions of bills introduced by the usual suspects in Richmond, the local group Left of Center called in
It’s possible the Virginia General Assembly will pass minimum wage legislation this year, bumping up the State’s $5.15-per-hour wage, circa 1997, to $7.25. Groups like the Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) (www.virginia-organizing.org) say they’ve lobbied especially hard, and three different versions of a minimum wage bill have been submitted for the 2007 General Assembly session. Charlottesville […]
When it comes to subjects like development and employment, UVA is undisputedly a major presence. But, according to Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR) (www.caar.com) CEO Dave Phillips, the University isn’t even showing up to the affordable housing party, much less swapping ideas in the debate. Realtor and CAAR CEO Dave Phillips wants UVA to […]
Due to a reporting error, in the Neighborhood section of the January edition of ABODE, published last week, we misspelled the name of Realtor Marjorie Adam. We regret the error. Due to a production error, the maps that accompanied last week’s cover story [“How dense can we get?”] were not color-coded, as intended. To view […]
Most of us know it’s a huge honor for students to live on the Lawn. The 47 selected each year get their own rocking chairs—front row seats to streak shows—and the esteemed privilege of walking outside in their towels to bathrooms that smell strangely zoo-like while people admire their accomplishments (and calves). But it’s not […]
Until he got busted this month for possession of child pornography and witness tampering, few knew Kevin Alfred Strom was more than just our friendly neighborhood white supremacist. A resident of Earlysville, Strom would collaborate on racist, anti-Semitic “American Dissident Voices” radio broadcasts, post nationalist messages on www.cvillenews.com and was involved in a 2005 incident […]
It’s tough being a kid. Apparently it’s even tougher being a kid in the Central Virginia justice system as trends skew toward treating juvenile offenders more like adult criminals.