FitzHerald-Tribune

“Pass by a house designed by architect Eugene Bradbury, and you may not see the home for the trees. Jefferson-informed dwellings like the Trotter House on University Circle or the ill-fated Compton House, torn down in early 2008 in a UVA controversy, showed Bradbury’s knack for blending a home’s boundaries into the land that surrounds it.

Spot a real estate listing for a Bradbury house, however, and it leaps clear off the page.”

C-VILLE Weekly

April 27, 2010

(Also: Setting the stage for UVA Drama expansion)

“How long does it take to construct a state park? Look no further than Middle Peninsula State Park in Gloucester County. The 438-acre parkland was purchased in 2005 by the Commonwealth of Virginia, with money from a $119 million bond created in 2002 for land conservation and parkland acquisition. Nearly five years later, and the master planning process for Middle Peninsula is just getting underway.

Or, look a little bit further. 

Somewhere past Middle Peninsula State Park, you’ll spot Biscuit Run—the 1,200 acres purchased by developer Hunter Craig and Forest Lodge, LLC for $46.2 million in 2005, and sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia for $9.8 million and undisclosed tax credit at the end of 2009. According to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, it could take as long as two-and-a-half years before the master planning for Biscuit Run State Park is completed.”

C-VILLE Weekly

March 30, 2010

“Andrea Swift listened to Def Leppard when she was pregnant and, 20 years later, her daughter knows a thing or two about pouring on the sugar. Taylor Swift whips her blonde mane around like Def singer Joe Elliott, and once swapped lyrics with the Lep on ‘Hysteria,’ a song written more than two years before she was born. Lines like ‘You’re just so cool, run your hands through your hair/ Absent mindedly, making me want you,’ from Swift’s Fearless album, could just as soon make their home on Pyromania.”

C-VILLE Weekly

March 23, 2010

From the same issue: “Funds to stay at the YMCA,” and coverage of John Yoo’s appearance at the Miller Center of Public Affairs