Someday, kid, you’re gonna be a star
Early brushes with David Matthews (and his sister Jane), Tina Fey, Trevor Moore and Steve Keene.
December 21, 1989 |
November 22, 1994 |
May 12, 1998 |
November 13, 1990 |
Going inside the War on Drugs
April 8, 2003 |
March 10, 1998 |
June 7, 2005 |
March 4, 2008 |
"Value-added" publishing
That’s a free poster, pal. Free.
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Name that smell
More than manure was stinking up Albemarle horse country when Jeremy "Mr. Betty Scripps" Harvey was implicated in financial fraud.
February 28, 2006 |
Tough questions
In which our reporter asks, in the matter of the UVA Hospital switched babies case, "Why is the Daily Progress coverage so damn lame?"
August 25, 1998 |
Because no one else was doing it
Oh, like you wouldn’t review the phone book if you had a chance!
"Year end" issue, 1989 |
Because no one else was doing it, pt. 2
A three-year photo series on boots is just so…alternative.
April 30, 1991 |
Still ugly after all these years
And no, we wouldn’t like this building any better if it were also named for Sacagawea.
March 20, 1990 |
September 30, 2008 |
Explaining government to the masses
Doing our part to help the city run better.
November 1, 2005 |
April 7, 2009 |
Love means never having to say "nine stories"
Summing up the made-in-hell marriage and divorce of Halsey Minor and Lee Danielson, in which somehow downtown Charlottesville gets left with custody of the kid.
Finally getting Washington’s attention
April 24, 2007 |
Exposing the Al-Qaeda problem
By which we mean Ed Robb’s Al-Qaeda problem.
December 30, 2003 |
Questioning authority
Jayson Whitehead discovers the NGIC-Wendell Wood-Albemarle County Supervisors land redesignation arrangement.
March 20, 2007 |
Does someone need a juice box?
Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman did not approve of our investigative technique.
October 25, 2005 |
Great moments in forecasting
Did we make DMB or did they make us?
February 5, 1992 |
Readers R Us
To all the guys who live in your mother’s basement with your rock posters and amps, we salute you.
October 28, 2003 |
Bucking the tide
Building ’em up just to knock ’em down.
December 13, 1994 |
Behind the curtain
Sure, it was easy for the guys from Frommer’s to rank Charlottesville at the Top of the heap when they never even laid eyes on the Wal-Mart!
April 6, 2004 |
The beginning of the end
Virgil Goode opens the door to Tom Perriello’s successful challenge two years later with his objections to Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison.
December 19, 2006 |
Supporting the local economy
"Boosting" means never have to pay retail and more.
April 17, 2007 |
Modern lovers
Repping for contemporary design in a traditional town, courtesy of W.G. Clark and Gregg Bleam.
Abode, December 2008 |