County assessments keep soaring
It’s not a big house, and there’s nothing remarkable about it on paper.
29N fire station breaks ground
After mutual words of thanks between some County Supervisors and the County’s Department of Fire Rescue, the group of men gathered behind the podium on Lonesome Pine Lane picked up […]
An ongoing inquiry into the curious state of Virginia politics
You remember Virginia, right? The first settled (and 10th admitted) American state? The one that launched our fledgling republic with the Declaration of Independence …
Flurry of activity
Dear Ace: The kids’ so-called winter break ended recently, and it got me wondering about snow days. No, not will we ever see the frosty precipitation again (I saw An Inconvenient Truth!), but, in the event that it’s coming down outside, who decides when to call a snow day and how do they make the decision?âCab N. Fevre
Art and consomme
It is a Saturday morning in early January and Will Richey is making breakfast. He arrived at Revolutionary Soup, the restaurant he owns on the Downtown Mall, a little before 8 …
Thom Pain (based on nothing)
stage “Do you like magic?” Thom Pain asks the audience on three occasions during Will Eno’s dramatic monologue, now playing in Charlottesville one year after the close of its first […]
The Virginia Quarterly Review
words There are other places in the world to worry about besides the Middle East. No one knows that better than the folks at The Virginia Quarterly Review. They’re determined […]
George Strait, with Ronnie Milsap, and Taylor Swift
music “Anything but country” is a common sentiment among music snobs, as in “I love Radiohead and the Wu-Tang Clan…really, anything but country.” In Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck […]
UVA rapist gets 40 years
A Charlottesville judge issued a 40-year sentence to a man who pleaded guilty to the 2005 rape of a UVA student. John Henry Agee, 38, will be off the streets, […]
Bell holds his own judge forum
At the end of the month, Albemarle Circuit Court Judge Paul M. Peatross will retire. The Charlottesville Area Bar Association has already grilled seven candidates, coming out with two they found “highly qualified” to succeed Peatross.