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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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