Track marks: These lines change lives

May 30

Lie down: Expert reluctantly offers safety tip

You're not supposed to walk on railroad tracks, but if you’re on a high bridge and you're about to get hit by a train, safety expert Danny Gilbert advises lying very low between the rails. "It's not a sure-fire way to avoid getting killed," cautions Gilbert, the Roanoke-based safety expert for Norfolk Southern, "but we have had individuals who laid flat and survived."

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Best conclusions from paid consultants studying the impact of a highly unpopular garage: UVA’s proposed 1,180-car garage will not cause unacceptable traffic problems, acc...

The Dish

Main, oh Main
It’s been a year since the Albemarle Baking Company left its snug berth in York Place to blaze a new path at the Main Street Market, formerly the MacGregor Imported Auto ...

Essays

Rebuild it big
I was never among the detractors of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s I lived in the East Village and loved seeing them daily a...

Real Estate - On the Block

History on tap
ASKING: $1,500,000SIZE: 5592 fin. square feetYEAR BUILT: 1737 (architecturally renovated in mid-1990s)ADDRESS: 860 White Hall Road (originally Three Chopt Road)NEIGHBORHOOD...

Movie Reviews

Never Enough: J.Lo's got the goods
Versatile director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, The World Is Not Enough, 7-42 Up) offers a standard woman-in-jeopardy thriller, Enough, trying again with a genre t...

Music Reviews

My Morning Jacket at Starr Hill
Mark my words: Louisville, Kentucky, is the next big thing in the world of indie music.With success stories like the Strokes and White Stripes making indie the "in" thing (...
Oratorio Society at Old Cabell Hall
By Amy Briggs

News

Breeders beware: Medicaid part of Ph.D. aid package
Graduate students know money is going to be tight and that they’ll probably have to work several jobs to make ends meet while they’re earning their Ph.D.’s. Here’s ...
Hidden danger: City playgrounds may be hazardous to children
A scraped knee or bumped head may not be the greatest danger your child faces when playing on Charlottesville’s playgrounds. Following up on a tip from a concerned parent...
Neither anthrax nor bombs deter postal management bonuses
A couple of years ago, the U.S. Postal Service in Charlottesville had the dubious distinction of being one of the worst in the country-– and that was before anthrax conta...

Strange But True

Don't get a big head
Q: What's wrong with the old sci-fi notion that in1,000,000 years we humans will have big heads (brains), spindly limbs (disuse), bald pates (in progress), and no wisdom te...

Cultural preview

A dreamer's tale
Floyd Collins’ gravestone bears the inscription “the greatest cave explorer ever known.” Frankly, I’d never heard of Collins before last summer when Live Arts annou...
Happy trails
Blue Ridge Mountain Sports, the Rivanna Trail Foundation, and the American Hiking Society join forces once again for the 10th annual National Trails Day celebration. The Ri...
In a family way
Is the end of May really too late to start thinking about vacation plans for the summer? I mean, with all the end-of-the-school-year activities happening this month, who ha...
Inside and out
For a guy who’s lived his life so large, it’s a bit of a surprise that his artwork comes so small. Victor Elmaleh graduated from UVA in architecture in 1942, but spent ...
Latter-day masters
By Mark Grabowski
Rare gifts
By Elizabeth Kiem
School's out
By Mara Rockliff