The UVa Department of Drama‘s performance of The Who’s “Tommy” (you know, the pinball wizard) opens Thursday night. It runs from the 19th-21st, and then from the 25th-28th. All performances start at 8pm.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
Monthly Archive for April, 2001
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State senators and businessfolk have filed a lawsuit against Governor Jim Gilmore to stop him from cutting back the car tax. Gilmore’s large tax cuts have required UVa to halt new building plans, and have forced PVCC to stop funding a number of services, even things as basic as grounds maintenance. The Virginian-Pilot Daily has the story.
Mayor Blake Caravati, in an interview in today’s Progress, said that he favors bringing drunks to the Mohr Center (the detox house on East Market) instead of arresting them. Said Caravati, “[P]utting them in jail when they’re dead drunk doesn?t do any good.” Sounds like a good policy to me.
In Brent Garland’s latest column in the Cavalier Daily, he does a good job of critiquing the Cav Daily’s site (albeit in a brief fashion), pointing out what’s good and what needs to change. He’s spot-on about all of the things that are good, but he forgot something that needs to change: they should permit people to directly reply to articles, like you can reply to this very article. If only every local media outlet would critique their on-line presences. I suspect that WVIR‘s “Local News” section would receive less-than-glowing reviews. Don’t get me started on the Progress.
The Virginia Home Education Association is holding the first-ever statewide home schooling conference here in Charlottesville. It will be held all day Saturday at the Covenant Church on Rio Road. Since I went to an alterna-school here in C’ville, I learned first-hand that there’s a pretty big home schooling community in the area that should be interested in this. WINA has the story.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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