AltWeeklies Wire
New Federal Food Safety Regulations Won't Impact Small Farmsnew
Locavores may have raised their hackles last week when reading that the Obama administration released a series of new proposals to regulate a number of foods, including eggs, poultry and beef. But farms with fewer than 3,000 laying hens would be exempt from the new rules on salmonella testing and refrigeration. The exception reflects small farms' reduced operation scale and the uneven costs these would levy on them.
C-Ville Weekly |
Melissa Batchelor Warnke |
07-22-2009 |
Food+Drink
Virginia Republicans Look to 2009 ... and Beyondnew
If there's one thing that we love about Virginia's odd-year election cycle, it's that it stretches the already interminable political season into near-perpetuity, insuring that not a year goes by without a healthy dose of campaign shenanigans for us to laugh at, lacerate and lampoon to our snarky heart's content.
C-Ville Weekly |
Dan Catalano |
07-22-2009 |
Politics
Swipe Happy: How Paying Tuition With Plastic Can Cost Younew
Since February 2008, University of Virginia students have been able to pay tuitions online through Quik Pay@UVA using an e-check, which drafts money from checking accounts or credit cards. But paying by credit card involves an additional 2.75 percent convenience fee.
C-Ville Weekly |
Caitlin Speaker |
07-15-2009 |
Education
With Media General in Financial Trouble, Could Charlottesvill Lose its Daily Paper?new
Are The Daily Progress' cost-cutting measures an unfortunate example of a community paper suffocating under the weight of its parent company's debts? Or is the paper independently suffering significant revenue declines of its own?
C-Ville Weekly |
Katherine Ludwig |
07-08-2009 |
Media
How Will Virginia's Gubernatorial Election Affect UVA?new
One of the largest impacts the incoming governor will make on the University of Virginia will be his appointments to one of the most senior decision-making bodies at the University -- the Board of Visitors (BOV). Among other tasks, the BOV allocates funds and approves the university budget.
C-Ville Weekly |
Caitlin Speaker |
07-08-2009 |
Politics
Viva la Vinho Verde! Cheers to Portugal's Green Goddessnew
Termed "green wine" for its youthfulness rather than its color, Vinho Verde is low in alcohol (typically 9-11 percent), high in acidity, and often retails at less than $10 a bottle. Your goal is to drink it within a year after bottling, at its first flush of youth.
C-Ville Weekly |
Megan Headley |
07-08-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Vinho Verde, wine
Underground Petroleum Tanks Mar Virginia Drinking Waternew
Because of population density and geological factors, Albemarle County is particularly polluted by underground gas storage tanks, and the problem of leaking tanks is more widespread than most realize.
C-Ville Weekly |
Erika Howsare |
07-01-2009 |
Environment
Rachel Greenwald Lays Out Common Reasons 'He Didn't Call You Back'new
I was prepared to dislike Rachel Greenwald's book Why He Didn't Call You Back, which outlines the results of 1,000 "exit interviews" she conducted with men who never initiated second dates. Surprisingly, I'll recommend this book to all of my clients.
C-Ville Weekly |
Marya Choby |
06-17-2009 |
Nonfiction
'Management' Gets a Little Mired in Quirkiness for its Own Sakenew
Management can't be accused of excessive realism, but it does give your good will the benefit of the doubt. Stephen Belber and company have sense enough to find their own contrivance suspicious, but heart enough, thankfully, to want to indulge it anyway.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-17-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Belber, Management
Albemarle County School Board May Make Latino Liaison Position Full-Timenew
Up until last month, the Albemarle County school board Latino Center coordinator had reason to think she would be one of those county employees whose positions were terminated due to budget cuts. But at the eleventh hour, the county changed its mind.
C-Ville Weekly |
Chiara Canzi |
06-10-2009 |
Policy Issues
The Photographer's Art of Imposing on Her Subjectsnew
No matter what the subject, Sylvia Plachy expresses an awkward intimacy through her lens.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
06-10-2009 |
Art
Tags: Sylvia Plachy, photography
Working the Home Price Reductionsnew
In today’s buyers' market, you hear stories of $500,000 homes selling for as little as $250,000 -- a buyer's jackpot by any standard. Price reductions are everywhere -- so how can a savvy homebuyer make the most of them?
C-Ville Weekly |
Jessie Knadler |
06-10-2009 |
Housing & Development
UVA South Lawn Project Is Ahead of Schedule and on Budgetnew
Since the beginning, the University of Virginia's massive South Lawn project attracted controversy, but nonetheless it has gone ahead as planned. And according to university officials, it's ahead of schedule and on budget.
C-Ville Weekly |
Chiara Canzi |
05-27-2009 |
Housing & Development
Sally Thomas Leaves Her Mark in Albemarle Countynew
Albemarle County's Samuel Miller District has been dominated since 1994 by Sally Thomas. Her decision to retire at the end of this term opens the race for her replacement. Whether her slow-growth legacy will be continued, however, remains to be seen.
C-Ville Weekly |
Mark Meier |
05-27-2009 |
Politics
In Charlottesville and Elsewhere, Verse Remains Vital, Local and Freenew
Most people think Americans don't really do the poetry thing. We might do the Hollywood thing, the tech thing, the nation-building thing, and (at least until this year) the high finance thing. But not that poetry thing. Ah, but we do. We just don’t know it.
C-Ville Weekly |
Sam Witt |
05-27-2009 |
Books
