Tuesday, March 21 Super Bowl’s loss is wage-workers’ gain Approaching retirement from the big chair at Harper’s Magazine, patrician editor Lewis Lapham is interviewed in the Style section of today’s Washington Post. Perhaps best known for his sometimes impenetrable essays that lead off Harper’s each month, Lapham reveals his old-school method of assigning work to […]
Tuesday, March 14 To sleep, perchance to dream of a big sale Speaking to Coy Barefoot today on WINA’s "Charlottesville Right Now," Beth Duffy, former morning anchor on NBC 29 explained her jump to the rival local TV stations known collectively as the Charlottesville Newsplex. After seven years at Channel 29, Duffy joined Gray TV’s […]
Tuesday, March 7 “I knew Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan was a friend of mine, and you, Senator, are no Ronald Reagan” Converted Democrat James Webb, who wants to give George Allen a bus ticket home from the U.S. Senate, has even broader goals, according to an Associated Press report today, saying he wants to defeat […]
Tuesday, February 28 Happiest wives get love and money New York Times’ columnist John Tierney writes today about the latest research from UVA sociologists Bradford Wilcox and Steven Nock. Surveying more than 5,000 married couples, the professors found that “having an affectionate and understanding husband was by far the most important predictor of a woman’s […]
Tuesday, February 21 Similarities uncovered between George Allen, chewed spinach Politicalderby.com continues its 2008 presidential handicapping with today’s news that Virginia’s junior Senator, George Allen, has the No. 1 ranking “on the strength of very positive inside-baseball chatter.” The former Republican governor has held on to his ranking for the past couple of weeks. But […]
The Idler, Tom Hodgkinson’s spunky little journal extolling the virtues of the profligate lifestyle, should be a must-read in business schools, if only to coerce the doomed students to wake up and drop out. Especially in his most recent book, How to Be Idle, a manifesto for living the sane life of leisure, Hodgkinson offers […]
Tuesday, February 14 Casteen, the Younger takes on accidental shootists Reid and Cheney Writing today on slate.com, John Casteen IV, a regular contributor to The Virginia Quarterly Review, enlists the recent shooting incidents of Vice President Dick “Fuck Yourself” Cheney and Virginia Delegate John “Invest in Kevlar” Reid to argue that Congress should act to […]
Tuesday, February 7 No sunny day for Groh Cavalier Daily columnist Chad Gallagher got all “Sesame Street” on Al Groh’s ass this morning, asking if the curmudgeonly UVA football coach is worth the reported $1.7 million he’ll make annually as per his new five-year contract. “Bob Stoops (Oklahoma), Mack Brown (Texas), Charlie Weis (Notre Dame), […]
Tuesday, January 31 Harding could look for GOP nod City Police Captain Chip Harding is eyeing public office in Albemarle County, where he has lived for 25 years, according to today’s Daily Progress. If Albemarle County Sheriff Ed Robb decides against running for a second term next year, then Harding will seek the Republican nomination. […]
Tuesday, January 24 Best-selling author offers wannabes sage advice Curtis Sittenfeld, whose debut novel Prep was named by The New York Times as one of the Top 10 books of 2005, gave a reading and answered questions this evening in UVA’s Newcomb Hall Ballroom. Prep chronicles the high school career of angst-y teen Lee Fiora, […]