The intersection of Seminole Trail and Rio Road 2004 crashes: 155 Statistically speaking, the four blocks of Seminole Trail that include the Rio Road intersection constitute the most dangerous stretch of road in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Not only do cars veer across multiple lanes to hit the entrances of several popular shopping centers, but […]
The intersection of Seminole Trail and Rio Road 2004 crashes: 155 Statistically speaking, the four blocks of Seminole Trail that include the Rio Road intersection constitute the most dangerous stretch of road in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Not only do cars veer across multiple lanes to hit the entrances of several popular shopping centers, but […]
Q: I have noticed on Route 250E, on the north side from Sleepy Hollow Trailer Court to Floor Fashions of Virginia, there are several fields full of objects that look like candles. They have been there for a year or so, but nobody seems to know what these are. Please Ace, you’re our only hope.—Wicker […]
How Charlottesville has changed. Ten years ago, the idea of hearing a 20th-century musical icon at a small club on a Downtown side street, not to mention on a Monday night in January, was inconceivable.
The laws of pop music are beginning to resemble the laws of reproduction. Thousands of spermatozoa swim desperately to an egg to fulfill their destiny, but only one will get in. This kind of evolutionary pattern has ruined a number of rock ’n’ rollers: Alex Chilton, Phil Ochs, Johnny Thunders. Dreaming of the glory of […]
Q: Hey Ace hole, I have an auto with a diesel engine and all’s been lovely ’til recently. Diesel has always been cheaper than gasoline, or about the same as regular. However, lately gasoline has dropped to as low as $1.64 per gallon while diesel is still over $2 at most stations. What gives? Has […]
It’s another busy morning in the Casey household on Rugby Road. John Casey, a celebrated local novelist and UVA creative writing professor, is already out back in his writing shed. Meanwhile, his wife, McGuffey Art Center President Rosamond Casey, has done T’ai Chi, made breakfast and lunch for their youngest daughter, Julia, a student at […]
Q: Dear Ace, I went to the City’s website the other day and clicked on a new little icon that sent me to this page that had advertisements on it, but also informational tourist videos about Charlottesville. Whaaaa? Is it an advertisement or is it something relating to City government and tourism?—Trava Ling-Willberry A: Your […]
No doubt about it, the next few years will not be easy ones for American progressives. The Republican Party’s perceived “mandate” is likely to produce increased international belligerence and militarism, further attacks on the social safety net, increasing inequality and sharply weakened environmental protection. With so many fronts to fight back on, it will be […]
Q: Dear Ace, What’s that smell?—Patchouli Clark A:Wake up and smell the roses, Patchouli, because that would be you. Naw, Ace kids because Ace loves! But in all seriousness. Given the distinct, often raunchy, smells that permeate our fair city, yours is a worthy question and took all of Ace’s well-honed investigative skills to sniff […]
“I haven’t had a cigarette in 15 years,” says Dr. David Hazelip. Prior to 1990, Hazelip was smoking an average of one pack a day. Now, as a smoking cessation consultant in Charlottesville, he uses his personal story of triumph over nicotine to help other aspiring nonsmokers. Hazelip says the clean slate of a new […]