Mind-Life event a chance to reflect for Curry students
Hey, teachers of the future, there may be something even more daunting than standardized tests coming your way.
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Mind-Life event a chance to reflect for Curry students
Bringing empathy back
Hey, teachers of the future, there may be something even more daunting than standardized tests coming your way.
Shooting Ace
The world is getting to be a pretty scary place, Ace. I don’t know how I’m supposed to protect myself, for example, from the type of person who would carry an assault rifle to a presidential speech. Or in the event of the zombie apocalypse, which is also starting to look pretty likely. Where can […]
The Kids Are Alright; By Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch; Harmony, 352 pages
“I don’t remember any of that,” writes Liz Welch in The Kids Are All Right, a heart-rending new memoir she co-authored with her brother and two sisters about their transition from members of an elite Connecticut family to orphans and outcasts. The book shifts in perspective between the four Welch siblings, whose ages span more […]
Tim Davis; The Bridge/Progressive Arts Initiative; Saturday, September 26
It was as if the rainiest night of the summer didn’t come until the first week of autumn. Lucinda Williams, awaiting showtime, was sheltered in one of two identical tour buses behind the Charlottesville Pavilion. Across the Ninth Street Bridge a small group of folks, many of whom appeared to be friends, was assembled at […]
Congressman Eric Cantor mouths off
Suffice it to say that this will not go down as Rep. Eric Cantor’s finest moment. Appearing at Richmond Times-Dispatch “Public Square” healthcare forum, Virginia’s most-photographed congressman was confronted by a Virginia voter with an all-too-common tale of woe: One of her relatives had recently lost her job and her insurance, leaving her without the […]
Council defers RWSA easement vote, MCP opponents don't back down
While the vote on the relocation of a sewer pipeline into McIntire Park to make room for the Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP) was deferred last week
Candidates swarm to challenge Perriello
Ah Virginia, where the political merry-go-round never knows to stop. With five weeks remaining in the 2009 political season, the 2010 race for congress in the Fifth District is already as crowded as a Saturday at the City Market. Five Republican hats are already in the ring for the right to challenge first term Democratic […]
Council to approve Massive Resistance apology
On September 19, 1958 Lane High School and Venable Elementary Schools shut down for five months in an attempt by officials to prevent the desegregation of the Charlottesville School System. Now, City Council wants to say it is sorry for that. The action, known as Massive Resistance, was supported and advocated by Sen. Harry Byrd […]
Twenty yeras of local news and arts in the spotlight
You say you want a revolution? In this, the 39th week of our highly selective tour through the past 20 years of local news and arts in C-VILLE, we turn our attention to exactly that. Nothing says history quite like a Civil War re-enactment. Or, did we mean to say Wal-Mart? Earlier this year, we […]
It's 1864 in Stanardsville and General Custer is approaching. You got a problem with that?
“It’s not about slavery. It’s not about racism. For a lot of us it’s about ancestors.” Amanda Kutch is a United Daughter of the Confederacy and on Saturday morning, September 19, she’s dressed like one. Blonde, fair, and outfitted in a blue, flowered dress with a white blouse and a crocheted hairnet, Kutch is […]