Child’s play
"I remember in school, they used these two puppets ‘Will Do’ and ‘Can Do,’ to illustrate some points about good behavior,”
Feedback Sessions [Recorded live in the C-VILLE office]
Local music, recorded live in the C-VILLE Weekly office. For more from Feedback, click here.
Service with a Bang!
The general hotness of the food service industry, as I understand it, boils down to this: Restaurants and bars deal in appetites, and a good deal of our appetites is sexual. While the chemistry of this equation remains a bit fuzzy, I know plenty of men and women hired for jobs at bars and restaurants […]
Rock you like a hurricane
I put together the first half of my Charlottesville supergroup in about 10 minutes. The second half took nearly two hours. You might think that assembling my own band from this year’s Best Of music winners and runners up—Sons of Bill in first place, followed by Trees on Fire, Dave Matthews Band and Sparky’s Flaw—would […]
CLAW of the Month! [with video]
CLAW of the Month In honor of this month’s nail-breaking, palm-puncturing bout of the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers—or maybe it has to do with the theatrical release of Pineapple Express?—CLAW harminatrix Amy “Purple Haze” McLeskey dropped by the office to challenge me to a duel. And, although I’m certainly not doing too hot against these […]
Feedback presents Thomas Gunn
The local songwriter performs two tunes recorded live in the C-VILLE Weekly office.
Marketing director leaves The Paramount
Departure follows announcement of consulting agreement with John Paul Jones’ management company.