Hotel homicide case heard
On Monday, February 5, the capital murder trial of Anthony Dale Crawford got underway at the Charlottesvile Circuit Court.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
words There are other places in the world to worry about besides the Middle East. No one knows that better than the folks at The Virginia Quarterly Review. They’re determined to keep Africa in our hearts and minds. Last year, they presented a series of articles on widespread AIDS in Africa. And now, in the […]
Little Big Minds
words At a certain point in my adult life, I decided to give myself a crash course in philosophy. Sure, I’d learned plenty of details in college, but they had gotten lost in the day-to-day drama of making a living. It was time to start over completely. The process went something like this: 1) severe […]
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum
A funny thing happened to me a few minutes into A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum. I began to enjoy myself.
Amadeus
If Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart suddenly floated down out of the sky and waltzed into the nearest record store, he would see ample evidence that the relative indifference paid to his music during his life has morphed into something resembling religious worship. Just as Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Life without music would be a mistake,” classical music without Mozart’s splendidly conceived and melodically sublime compositions would be unimaginable.
Odetta
How Charlottesville has changed. Ten years ago, the idea of hearing a 20th-century musical icon at a small club on a Downtown side street, not to mention on a Monday night in January, was inconceivable.