The most common argument to support the legal defining of marriage as a union between a male and female is that of tradition. As marriage has always been characterized this way, so should it always be, claim its supporters. This argument assumes that a male and a female create the most stable union that society […]
What a bizarre season this has been. Virtually no frontrunners have emerg-ed, like, at all. (By contrast, Randal was clearly earmarked as the victor from the beginning last season.)
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Attention, pig lovers! Long an isolated mainstay way out on East Market Street, Jinx’s Pit’s Top is set to make an entrance on the Downtown scene. You may have noticed that the Downtown Mall kiosk has been bursting with flowers in recent weeks, thanks to the entrepreneurship of Betty Jo Dominick. Any day now, Jinx Kern will be supplying her with boxed barbecue lunches schlepped over from his tiny original location.
The pork will be tucked amongst the blooms during the noon hour, and also at dinnertime on Fridays After 5. For $6, says Jinx, you’ll get a barbecue sandwich, along with coleslaw and some cucumber saladâ”both of which we’re rather famous for,” he notes.
Jinx says this is the first toehold in a long-term plan for Downtown Jinxifica-tion. “I hope ultimately not just to be up there by proxy, but to have my own place on the Mall,” he says. We’ll lobby for seating when that day finally comes.
Tuesday, April 18USA Today digs “Idol”’s DaughtryFluvanna High graduate Chris Daughtry, who’s been filling the rock quotient on “American Idol,” Fox’s Tuesday night juggernaut (30 million viewers on average), ekes out the lead in USA Today’s “Idol” popularity contest today. But just barely. With 24 percent of the vote, the charismatic baldy with the tight […]
“Are you liberal or conservative?” This question seems to matter a great deal to people these days. Political affiliation colors our thinking on everything from global politics to family life—so much so that it seems every story has only two sides: left and right. Robert O’Neil, president of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection […]
Tuesday, April 4 Getaway-seeking Yankees set to converge on state If, over the course of the season, you see a bunch of cars bearing New York license plates clogging our lovely highways and byways, blame the New York Post. Today the histrionic tab-loid featured Charlottesville (and other Virginia destinations) for history- and wine-seeking travelers. Chief […]
Tuesday, March 28 Buford not as bad as some say City school parents Lois Wallenhorst and Syd Knight write in today’s Daily Progress in support of Buford Middle School, lately the subject of much controversy because of threatening incidents involving some students. But most of the 612 students deserve praise and recognition, Wallenhorst and Knight […]