One of my favorite musicians, Paul Casey, is playing at Starr Hill on Saturday night, at their Emerging Artist Showcase. Just $5 to get in. And it ain’t often that Paul comes over from Ireland, so any Charlottesvillians that pass this up had best have a real good excuse.
Category Archives: Charlottesville
This year’s remodel.
Great dance party at Live Arts last night. J Pinkerton & DJ Aquaboy, a few hundred people, and some fairly good music. The lights weren’t working, which dampened the mood considerably, but most people didn’t appear to mind. I only stayed from midnight until around 1:30.
Historic signs and water conservation.
Continuing my string of appearances at each City Council meeting [1, 2], presenting two ideas to improve the city for $10,000 or less, I spoke this evening to describe two admittedly-small ideas. Preserve Commercial Art In our efforts to preserve the character of the downtown historic district, it is important that we not overlook some …
The great equalizer.
I should have been asleep an hour ago, but I’m on a kick. In September of last year, I was a delegate at The Summit on Citizenship in Virginia: Renewing Civic Life in the Commonwealth, an event up in Leesburg put on by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. It was a great event …
Municipal OSS and wireless.
Picking up where I left off at the last City Council meeting, here are tonight’s proposals in what I pretentiously call my my Ten for Ten program: Municipal Use of Free Software Municipalities and even nations have started to discover that they do not need to use expensive commercial software on their computers. For decades, …
Two of ten for ten.
Given that I’ll probably have to move to Blacksburg (I’d say it’s a better than even bet; I’ve gotten no response from my inquiry to UVa admissions sent 14 days ago), I figure that I’d better get cranking on all of the stuff that I wanted to get done on City Council. After all, if …
Suggested changes to the Charlottesville Democratic Party.
Be Welcoming It is the great lament of the Charlottesville Democrats — as well it ought to be — that minority involvement in the party is far from representational of the city’s population. Many methods of determining the source of this problem have been suggested, though few of them have been attempted. A glance around …
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No Way.
In Brian Wimer’s article on cvillenews.com — an extensive piece about recent anti-war efforts in Charlottesville — he asks former state delegate Peter Way (a Republican) what he thinks about City Council’s anti-war resolution. He replies: “The City Council of Charlottesville are pigs. They’ll do anything to promote liberalism.” I’d like to state, for the …
Crackmonkey legislator.
Delegate Bob Marshall, who has been making news because he strong-armed James Madison University into ceasing to distribute certain types of contraceptives, has set his sights on UVa. This rocket scientist has decided that he knows better than science — life doesn’t begin when a blastocyst implants itself in the wall of the uterus, but …
Tornado.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for Charlottesville. It’s raining like a bastard out. Between this and the earthquake this week, it is plain that the apocalypse is upon us.