Dear Ace: Effort Baptist Church in Fluvanna County has just painted their chapel bright purple with green trim. Is anyone in the neighborhood as upset as I am? Why did they do it?—Blinded By the Light Dear Blinded: This is not the first time Ace has dealt with a bad paint job. Ace’s neighbor once […]
Dear Ace: Effort Baptist Church in Fluvanna County has just painted their chapel bright purple with green trim. Is anyone in the neighborhood as upset as I am? Why did they do it?—Blinded By the Light Dear Blinded: This is not the first time Ace has dealt with a bad paint job. Ace’s neighbor once […]
Dear Ace: I hear Darden is 50 years old. Who the heck was Darden anyway?—M.B., Eh? Dear M.B.: The Darden Graduate School of Business at UVA is indeed celebrating the half-century mark in much the same manner that Ace celebrated his 21st birthday: with two years of festivities taking place in more than 50 cities […]
“There’s going to be no drama,” said Richard Collins, address-ing a crowd of about 40 people, mostly from the Little High Street neighborhood association. Collins, an expert in “environmental negotiation,” hoped for civil discussion, but that hasn’t been the tone so far between Little High Street residents and officials at Region Ten. A simple case […]
Dear Ace: I was walking through the neighborhoods near Martha Jefferson Hospital, and I found a graveyard. What’s up with that?—Morbidly Confused Dear Confused: The final resting place you refer to is Maplewood Cemetery. Officially established in 1827, it is Charlottesville’s oldest public cemetery, 3.6 acres of irregularly scattered gravesites and stones without any formal […]
Just four days before the 2004 presidential election, a prestigious British medical journal published the results of a rigorous study by Dr. Les Roberts, a widely respected researcher. Roberts concluded that close to 100,000 people had died in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Most were noncombatant civilians. Many were children. But that news didn’t […]
Dear Ace: I was walking through the neighborhoods near Martha Jefferson Hospital, and I found a graveyard. What’s up with that?—Morbidly Confused Dear Confused: The final resting place you refer to is Maplewood Cemetery. Officially established in 1827, it is Charlottesville’s oldest public cemetery, 3.6 acres of irregularly scattered gravesites and stones without any formal […]
He’s a snappy dresser. His office above Water Street is beautifully appointed. He’s enormously successful, and unfailingly generous. Locally, his philanthropy extends to the Legal Aid Justice Center, Little League and other causes. Most recently he and his wife donated $5 million to kick-start a post-Katrina Mississippi rebuilding effort with their Rebuild the Coast fund. […]
Dear Ace: I thought that Charlottesville was hungry for smooth jazz! At least that was what we were told when 107.5 switched its format 18 months ago. Now they are playing Kelly Clarkson and Rob Thomas and calling it the “Best Mix of Everything.” What happened?—Waves Goodbye Dear Waves: Leave that dial alone, kid, because […]
Aberdeen Barn Barn Potatoes Why is the potato the king of vegetables? Because it requires so very little to make its majesty known. Consider the truly excellent Barn Potatoes at the superior steakhouse that for lo these 40 years has been owned by the same family in the same location. On paper, these quartered spuds […]
Dear Ace: Why is it that every time I turn around in Charlottes-ville some kind of emergency vehicle is blazing by me with sirens blasting? Is Charlottesville perpetually in a state of emergency or are our civil protectors siren zealous?—Ears Ringing Dear Ringing: First of all, does Ace know you? You seem so familiar—the colorful […]