UVA first-years Michael Brown, a varsity football player, and Michael Giallombardo, a varsity soccer player, are off to a bad start. The two were arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with breaking into the Delta Upsilon fraternity house earlier this month and starting a brawl, a felony charge that could land the two in jail.

However, according to Ric Barrick, director of communications for the City of Charlottesville, “The investigation is definitely still pending. According to some investigators, a lot of witnesses haven’t been truthful in some of their answers,” the Cavalier Daily reports. “[Police] are giving them the opportunity to step up to the plate before they take the process any further; they hope they will take advantage of that.”

The arrests, says Barrick, were made after police interviewed Delta Upsilon brothers and others involved in the incident.

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In Charlottesville, restaurants open and close so frequently these days that it�s hard to keep track of them. Not so with the C& O Restaurant. The landmark bar and fine dining establishment celebrates its 30th anniversary this week (more)

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So was there a serious plot by four teenagers to blow up Western Albemarle and Albemarle High schools? Judge Susan Whitlock ruled March 28 that the public doesn’t need to know, presumably to protect the privacy of the teens– even though their identities are pretty widely known.

After the hoopla of a February 3 police press conference announcing the alleged threat, authorities remained mum on (more)

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Singer James Brown, the “Godfather of Soul,” and Willie Nelson, the pony-tailed king of country (who once bragged of smoking marijuana on a balcony at the Carter White House), are among the mega-stars who’ll perform this summer at the Charlottesville Pavilion. The announcements, made today by Pavilion manager Kirby Hutto, are the latest wave in Charlottesville musical history which will soon see Ween and Wilco play at the Pavilion and which saw the Rolling Stones perform at Scott Stadium last October. Today’s announcement also revealed that melodic rocker-pianist Bruce Hornsby, Merle “I’m proud to be an Okie” Haggard, and an act featuring Wynton Marsalis and the Neville Brothers will star among the performers at the newish outdoor facility built on City land by Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw.#

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At yesterday’s Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority board meeting, executive director Tom Frederick warned that 2006 could be another drought year.

“The spring planting season is fast approaching,” Frederick wrote in a written report, ”�and I would strongly urge all our citizens to think and practice �water conservation� now and recognize there is a higher than average probability that this year could be a drought year.” While our reservoirs are full right now, Frederick reported, abnormally dry conditions are causing concern.

In 2002, the area suffered a drought that had restaurants using paper plates, car washes closing down, and people collecting rainwater and siphoning soapy bath water.

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Third-year UVA Engineering student Steve Gilday told an Honor trial that he was innocent of cheating charges when he scanned, re-graded, and re-submitted a BIOL 301 exam Sunday, according to the Cavalier Daily. Gilday’s defense for scanning a paper and resubmitting it complete with grading pen marks allegedly made to emulate the ink color and style of his TA? That the exam paper became wet and illegible after he left it out at the frog laboratory in the Gilmer Hall science building, where Gilday was employed. (more)

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