The Washington Post had an extensive write-up about the Downtown Mall this weekend. Author Caroline Kettlewell speaks quite highly of our Mall, praising landmarks like Mudhouse, McGuffey, Chaps and Mark’s Hotdogs, and seems to have especially enjoyed Fridays After Five. Quite satisfyingly, she describes the Mall as “thriving and vibrant,” and “decidedly happening,” something that nobody rational could have said just a few years back. Yay us.
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- The New York Times has an article all about John Casey's Pennsylvania cabin. #
- Twin Oaks founder Kat Kinkade has died. To learn more about Kat and Twin Oaks, I recommend the Post's 1994 profile. #
- Two Waynesboro morons stage a home invasion twice. Neighbors beat them senseless. With photos! #
- The LoC's collection of drawings and histories for historic buildings in Charlottesville. #
- Some nice pictures: Ghost signs of downtown (Via LoCoHistory) and Duncan Brown's 1980 photos of the Downtown Mall. #
- Charlottesville native Will Frischkorn, racing for Garmin-Chipotle, is kicking ass in this year's Tour de France. #
- The Hook calls the Progress on posting a conservative e-mail forward as a letter to the editor when the paper knew it was was plagiarized. Worse still, it's a terrible letter; why publish it at all? #
- DMB's LeRoi Moore is in the UVa hospital in "serious condition" after getting into an accident on his ATV on his farm. #
- Charlottesville resident Adam Nelson has qualified for the Olympics in the shot put. #
- Council is looking at blanketing downtown with WiFi. I'd go with a mesh network—it's cheaper, and my tests downtown show that it'll work just fine. #
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