June 20th, 2013 issue #1225

June 20th, 2013

Roseberry's eye: 60 years behind the lens

Local photographer Ed Roseberry is excited and a little anxious. After eight decades shooting film— producing an estimated 200,000 photos that have won him national awards and will soon form a special collection at UVA— he's recently made the leap to digital and has spent the last two months experimenting with his new camera, a Nikon D-7100.

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The week in review

Worst week for the Western 29 bypass: The Washington Post's Robert McCartney slams the project in his June 15 column, "Wasteful Charlottesville highway highlights problem w...

Young Tibetan: Cheese shop and more on Mall

In the swirl of financial troubles that sunk Carmello's, the venerable Italian restaurant that was located for 19 years at its familiar Emmet Street location next to the Ec...

Tortured logic: "Trust us" is no longer good enough

By Retired Brigadier General David R. IrvineThe Convention Against Torture, which President Reagan signed 25 years ago, states "[n]o exceptional circumstances whatsoever, w...

Spotlight on Mill Creek

Location: Mill CreekPrice range: $125,000-$360,000Schools: Cale, Walton, MonticelloPros: affordable homes, functional floor plans, convenient locationCons: topography, siti...

Property auctions

June 21 at 1:30pm at Charlottesville Circuit CourtProperty: 707 Rock Creek Road Debtor: Shawn Bates Jr. and Kiara Carter Original amount owing: $193,600 Bidder brings: $2...

'Steel' yourself: Latest Superman flick not so super

By Richard Roeper ** "Ah, so that's where Superman comes from!"— something nobody will say after watching Man of Steel. Can we just please hit the...

Table of contents

COVERLegendary shutterbugSince the 1940s, photographer Ed Roseberry has been capturing the people and places of Charlottesville, and the epic expanse of his work forms a pr...

Accidental shooting: No charges filed in Crozet girl's death

Maggie Hollifield's obituary describes a camp-loving 10-year-old who died from a "tragic accident" in her Crozet home. Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney Denise Lunsford agr...
Boys of Summer at McIntire Little League

Ballplayers at McIntire Little League sit up on top of the dugout to watch the Home Run Derby on Sunday, June 16, a long-time tradition on the final day of the season.
Payback time: Baldi pleads guilty to embezzlement charges

James Baldi, the former restaurateur and accountant who abruptly skipped town three years ago and lived under an assumed name in San Francisco before being arrested in earl...
Talk radio: Barefoot jumps WINA ship for FM-- and TV

Something was missing for listeners of WINA's "Charlottesville Right Now" tuning in to the AM station since late last week: Coy Barefoot, the show's longtime host. Here's a...
Tie-breaker: Fenwick pulls ahead by 5 in council race

Three days after the June 11 Democratic primary and an unprecedented tie for one of two City Council nominations, Wes Bellamy and Bob Fenwick learned who will join incumben...

Nail-biter: Fenwick has 3-vote lead in ballot count-- for now

Normally the light-turnout primary race for City Council would have been decided Tuesday night shortly after the polls closed at 7pm. Instead, an unprecedented tie for seco...

Officer's defense

After reading comments concerning the officer involved shooting on Birdwood Court ["Code of silence: County clams up when cops open fire," June 14], I feel compelled to sha...

After the count

Three days after the election, city council candidate Wes Bellamy— who tied with Bob Fenwick and eventually lost by a handful of votes— converses with media following t...

Get Out! events, shows, things to do

"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are..." – Cat Stevens, If You Want ...