If college students were given the chance to design and teach their own classes, what would they pick to study? Judging by this semester’s student-initiated courses program at UVA, the bulk of their curriculum might be TV shows. "The Daily Show" But we’re not talking about MTV reality shows or “Lost” reruns. Rather, students who […]
If college students were given the chance to design and teach their own classes, what would they pick to study? Judging by this semester’s student-initiated courses program at UVA, the bulk of their curriculum might be TV shows. "The Daily Show" But we’re not talking about MTV reality shows or “Lost” reruns. Rather, students who […]
When our illustrious ex-governor (and current head of the Democratic National Committee) Tim Kaine recently appeared on “The Daily Show,” he was probably hoping for 15 minutes of jocular banter and a few pointed jabs from the left-leaning Jon Stewart. What he got instead was the kind of intense grilling that the acerbic host […]
Abortion, legal since 1973, is the most common surgical procedure that women get, and one-third of all American women have had one
At first glance, Satch Huizenga seems like a guy who’d be more at home hosting a TV show about fishing and trapping than a man in charge of the city’s best-known theater organization, which, at 20 years of age, has become, despite its best efforts to stay on the edge, an institution, capital I, of […]
Residents of the Willoughby subdivision were invoiced in August for dues to a homeowners association that many did not know existed.
The walls are alive at The Bridge this month, colonized by forms from Suzanna Fields, J.T. Kirkland and Sean Lundgren crafted specifically to meld with the venue’s sparse main room. Their conceptual creations demand a sturdy attention span, but look closely and your patience will be rewarded. At one end, Richmond’s Fields coated the drywall […]
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival’s September 16 show at the Jefferson Theater took on the difficult task of bringing classical music down from the ivory tower, and into the iPod-primed ears of today. Clarinetist Matthew Hunt, who had brought the audience to its feet earlier in the festival with his performance of Steve Reich’s Counterpoint […]
Soon after U.S. Senator Mark Warner took the microphone September 9 in the atrium of the new Bavaro Hall at UVA’s Curry School of Education, it became clear that the intent of the Democratic senator’s visit was not to wax poetic over the status quo. U.S. Senator Mark Warner remarked that top-tier universities have been […]
At the September meeting of the Piedmont Virginia Community College board, PVCC President Frank Friedman told board members that the school’s budget was slated for a $900,000 cut. An infusion of $500,000 in federal stimulus money helped to soften the blow to the college’s $18.9 million budget for the current academic year. Now, according to […]
Less than a year ago, the City of Charlottesville kicked off the Dialogue on Race, what Acting City Manager Maurice Jones now calls the “largest civic engagement project” in the city in a long time.