If you’re a gamer—or, more pointedly, one the friends and family members who’ll be buying gifts for one in the next three weeks—you might be pardoned for feeling like one of the hapless burglars in Home Alone whose face just met the business end of MacCaulay Culkin’s swinging paint can trap.
Deliver Us from Hollywood: Previewing the Virginia Film Festival When it went down back in 1993, the standoff between U.S. gov-ernment forces and David Koresh took 51 days, and immediately added the terms “Branch Davidian” and “Waco, Texas” to the national lexicon. In Waco Resurrection, one of the most bizarre and thought-provoking computer game […]
As one of the many who were sure that Simon LeBon’s cultural (and musical) relevance had flamed out somewhere between “The Reflex” and “A View to a Kill,” count me among those intrigued to learn that the Duran Duran boys are reportedly working up another concert.
On an island, no less.
games The Lego Star Wars series is a bright, shiny path to not one, but two galaxies far, far away: the one George Lucas created for us back in the 1980s, and our old childhood galaxy, where we created entire universes out of colorful plastic blocks. The sequel to last year’s surprise hit changes little […]
Adult Learning Center 1000 Preston Ave. 245-2815. Hosts “Dialogue Café,” an opportunity for adult English language learners and native English speakers to gather, talk and share experiences. Free. Every Wednesday, 6-8pm and Friday, 1:30-3:30pm. L’Alliance Française 1119 Fifth St. ext., second floor. 973-8268. monticello.avenue.org/ afc. Offers ongoing classes in French language and culture. Contact for […]
In a great find by The Cavalier Daily, an editorial Friday, August 25 noted former Governor Mark Warner’s March 2005 bill naming the Virginia Big-Eared Bat as the state’s official nocturnal flying mammal. In an amazing feat of parallelism, the editorial pointed out the irony that we have a State Bat, yet no one seems […]
Engineers who may have left July 27’s 250 Bypass Interchange Steering Committee meeting feeling optimistic were in for a brutal dose of reality on August 7, when City Council got a look-see at the intersection’s five potential design alternatives. “It’s an awful lot coming awful fast,” Council member Kevin Lynch said. “Maybe we are pushing […]
Tuesday, July 11
Daughtry gets a deal
Come forth and shine, fellow bald men. “American Idol” finalist and one-time Fluvanna County resident Chris Daughtry has cut his own record deal. Daughtry, who, inexplicably, was voted off the hit show “American Idol” at fourth place, signed a joint deal with 19 Recordings Unlimited and big-time producer Clive Davis for a record slated to be released later this year.
Crime statistics from January through May of this year show a reduction in violent crime, but a climb in property crimes like motor vehicle thefts, burglary, and thefts from vehicles compared to the period last year. The trends mirror county trends reported last week, which saw a hike in larceny, stolen vehicles and burglary. Aggravated […]
Burly and bellicose verbal bombs are already falling in the Senate race between Republican incumbent George Allen and Democratic challenger James Webb.
Allen’s camp: “By announcing his opposition to the Flag Protection Amendment, James H. Webb, Jr. puts himself firmly on the side of John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer.”
Webb’s camp: “People who live in glass dude ranches should not question the patriotism of real soldiers who fought and bled for this country on a real battlefield.”