Groundbreaking was held yesterday for a 42-unit condominium being built in Belmont, near downtown. The location isn’t clear in the Progress story, but based on the sketch, it’s pretty close to the coal tower. The project is being headed by mega-developers Frank Stoner and Robert Hauser, known mostly for their extensive contributions to development of the suburban ring around Charlottesville. The three-story apartments are scheduled for completion by next spring. Jake Mooney has the story in today’s Progress.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
Monthly Archive for June, 2002
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Albemarle County assistant superintendent Jean Murray is leaving her job, having been accepted as the superintendent of the Stafford County public schools. Murray was the last of the three Charlottesville superintendent candidates after the previous two bowed out, though she, too, declined the position. (Presumably knowing that she would get this job.) This leaves Albemarle in need of two assistant superintendents for the fall, and Charlottesville remains in need of a superintendent. Kate Andrews has the story in today’s Progress.
Live Arts has announced their final season at their current location. Running from September until June of 2003, John Gibson describes it as “an American season, with all U.S. settings and playwrights.” Best of all, the final show will be Coffeehouse 13, a throwback to the early 90s coffeehouses that made Live Arts so popular in the first place. After that show, the theater intends to move to their new location on Water Street.
Lost in Yonkers
by Neil Simon
Directed by Larry Goldstein
September 13 to October 5
1942, the world goes to war. in a Yonkers apartment above a candy store, 3 generations are thrown together: cold and sharp as steel Grandma Kurnitz; the four children who have each hardened her heart; the two teenage boys meeting this, their extended family, for the first time. America’s greatest comic playwright, his only Pulitzer Prize. A tender memory play about coming of age, laughing through tears and learning to let go.
The Wild Party
by John Michael LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe
Directed by Doug Schneider
November 15 to December 14
From epic poem to smash hit musical. The jazz-mad Manhattan of the 1920s, where anything and everything goes! Bathtub gin and bedroom eyes, bums and bon vivants, the most wild and wicked, eye-opening and jaw-dropping party of them all. Dilettantes, debutantes, has-beens, and wannabes are all clawing for an invite to this sexy singing soiree. A vaudeville with hors d’ouevres, a sloe gin fizz to a fast jazz beat, doilies but no undies- “The Wild Party” has it all.
Ah, Wilderness!
by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by William Rough
January 17 to February 8
No morphine, no tuberculosis, and no foghorns. Instead, a comedic walk down memory lane. A turn-of-the-last-century valentine to a sweeter time. A Fourth of July weekend in a placid New England town. A scrapbook of loving family portraits. A clear-eyed and unsentimental look at the inner life of 17-year old Richard Miller: the future artist as a sensitive, pompous, all-but-insufferable, young man.
Summer Evening in Des Moines
by Charles Mee
Directed by Chris Courtenay
March 14-29
One of the most exciting and wildly theatrical playwrights working today. A free-wheeling cruise through heart and head. A ship of fools looks for a way back to Civilization. (Where one can “sit at a dinner table and watch TV.”) With a stop in Teatimeland or Tuscanyworld. (“Where the fountains brim with chianti.”) The destination keeps changing – grand canyon, Dairy Queen, airport, Devonshire, New Jersey, or the Hamptons. Just don’t forget to pack your catapult for the fruitcake toss!
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Boomie Pedersen
April 18- May 3
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” or the double-wide set. A young man returning home to the family farm. His family: Gothic in the disheveled darkness of their lives; Baroque in the extravagance of their dysfunction; Medieval in their cruelty toward each other. Shepard: may be our greatest living playwright; this may be his masterpiece. Albee’s sense of craft, Beckett’s ear for language, and Tennessee William’s gift for venom all on display in this Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Coffeehouse 13
by the Charlottesville All-Star Writers
Directed by Fran Smith
May 30 to June 21
The thrilling days of yesteryear in C-ville. The Downtown Mall was a ghost town. Fellini’s offered all kinds of after hours treats. Live Arts meant Coffeehouse. For our final full production in our cozy home at 609 East Market Streeet, we’re going back to our roots (before we transplant them to Water Street) resurrecting the legendary performance series that put our address on the map. Big laughs, great tunes and wicked gossip: all with a local slant.
In this week’s Hook, Lisa Provence has an account of the recent sentencing of several of the CHS attackers, along with a series of interesting quotes from some of the victims. With official apologies like “I’m sorry if I hurt anybody,” some of the victims are less than pleased with the outcome. You can read the story on The Hook’s site.
The University of Virginia has rejected the city’s request for non-binding arbitration over the planned Ivy Road parking garage. The city believes that UVa has violated the Three Party Agreement in their handling of the garage. In the response letter by John Casteen, he dismisses the concerns, neatly summarizing UVa’s perspective in saying that “the Code [of Virginia] does not provide for localities to pass judgment on state agency projects.” In related news, an attorney for the area residents opposed to the project is claiming that UVa does not own a 32’x32′ portion of the planned garage site, as per an 1895 deed. Eric Swensen has stories on each subject in today’s Progress.
Sideblog
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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