Terminal curiosity
Dear Ace: Most every airport I’ve been to makes you go through security before you can sit at the bar or buy a magazine. How come Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport puts the […]
Of Maus and men
Art Spiegelman would have been like any other adolescent comic fan, losing interest in the form at about age 13, but for the fact that right about that time […]
Stamped out
Dear Ace, I went to the 11th Street post office that’s near my house the other day to mail my boyfriend a mix CD as proof of my undying love […]
Mommies’ little helper
Q: Why don’t women need watches? A: There’s a clock on the stove. The old joke is a sure-fire way for a guy to earn a jab in the arm from […]
Green day
Dear Ace, St. Patrick’s Day is Friday and I’m on the hunt for some green beer. Where’s it at?—Seamus O’Drinkerson Hate to be the lead in your pot o’ gold, […]
Bad news for Virgil Goode?
Charlottesville now has a direct link to a genuine political scandal in Washington. The high-profile fiasco features a corrupt defense contractor, illegal campaign donations, multimillion dollar bribes, a yacht and […]
Something to talk about
Dear Ace: What’s all this I hear about a new call-in radio show for local newshounds?—Runov Atdamouf Runov: Finally, Charlottesville has something it lacked for as long as Ace can […]
Who is the real Jeremy Harvey?
Like so many eager lovebirds before them, a blushing bride walked down the softly lit aisle of the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel’s wedding chapel on February 16 to meet her […]
Field of schemes
Dear Ace, When the D.C. Council rejected a potential lease for a new baseball stadium in the capital, Virginia seemed poised to scoop up the Nationals. Hours later the council […]
Flush with success
The Idler, Tom Hodgkinson’s spunky little journal extolling the virtues of the profligate lifestyle, should be a must-read in business schools, if only to coerce the doomed students to wake […]