Charlottesville now has it’s own monument to the financial crisis rocking the world: the nine-story hotel rising on the Downtown Mall is on indefinite hold after a bank apparently failed to pay its bills.
If there’s one thing the green movement isn’t short on, it’s talk. At first glance you might think that the certification of Charlottesville and Albemarle as “Green Governments” by the Virginia Municipal League is another example of hot air tinged green, but I think it’s probably a little more substantive than that.
After Halsey Minor, the venture capitalist backing the Landmark Hotel, accused Silverton Bank of not delivering cash to make payroll for the nine-story Downtown project, Silverton Bank issued a statement suggesting that all’s good.
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Live Arts Gala on Saturday night. The space was transformed into a kind of nighttime fantasy, with performers on suspended ladders and free-flowing booze and…wait for it…a sustainability theme!
Slade Allen Woodson, 19, has been sentenced to two years in jail in Waynesboro Circuit Court for six felony counts in connection with the I-64 shootings in March of this year, reports the News Virginian in Waynesboro.
Even if the final vote count for the Fifth District Congressional seat hasn’t been certified yet, Democratic candidate Tom Perriello is acting the part.
Today is the day that the pop-country siren’s new album, Fearless, is released. Today is the most miserable day of my life.
Celebrated choreographer Bill T. Jones gave the inaugural Arts Address at UVA last night, speaking to the students, academics and community members that packed Cabell Hall about his latest project, a consideration of Abraham Lincoln, and about the nature of art and collaboration, in general.
Tickets go on sale November 20, but take a look at the list first. You may’ve seen a few of these acts before.
The American Historical Association has bestowed upon Melvyn P. Leffler of UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, the 2008 George Louis Beer Prize for outstanding historical writing in European international history since 1895 for his book, “For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War.”