Chances are, if you’re My Morning Jacket, you go on stage every night with the odds stacked against you. Do something like play a three-hour-plus gig at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival spiked with Crüe and Sly Stone covers and word gets around: Crowds want you to sweat waterfalls, play more guitar solos than […]
Chances are, if you’re My Morning Jacket, you go on stage every night with the odds stacked against you. Do something like play a three-hour-plus gig at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival spiked with Crüe and Sly Stone covers and word gets around: Crowds want you to sweat waterfalls, play more guitar solos than […]
There’s a general rule about sequels: If the sequel was conceived along with the original tale, or draws from the same source of material, it’s got a good shot at being good—see the first Star Wars set, The Godfather Part II, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, etc. If, however, the sequel is an exploitative […]
Wrack up another accolade for UVA. This time, the University, which was ranked 23rd by U.S. News and World Report for its college and ninth for its law school, has been flagged as one of the “IT Schools to Watch” by Computerworld Magazine. Specifically, the Master’s of Science in Management of Information Technology is named […]
Wondering why school buses are shuttling Hoos from Downtown to the football games this year instead of the usual Charlottesville Transit Service (CTS) buses? It’s not because the city schools are taking over the duty to raise funds or because the yellow is supposed to be a closer proxy to the Cavalier orange. Rather it’s […]
Nothing like a sportswriter to rile the student body into protest. Last week, ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly trashed the UVA athletic department for banning signs at sporting events (“This is un-American. This isn’t Havana.”) and counseled UVA students to bring blank signs to the September 6 football game against Richmond. During the second quarter of the […]
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Dear Ace: You know that large digital display on 29N near Fashion Square Mall that shows the temperature? Is that thing accurate? When was the last time the temperature was calibrated?—Urma Stat Urma: Why yes, actually. Ace knows exactly the display of which you’re speaking. In fact, he can be seen on that side of […]
Well, that was anticlimactic. After a solid year of sly winks and peek-a-boo promises from both candidates, Virginia’s prospect of having a native son co-piloting the presidential ticket went from “Yes we can” to “No you Kain’t” faster than a UVA undergrad streaking the Lawn. No Tim Kaine for Obama, no Eric Cantor for McCain, […]
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.—William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice […]
My dad started to write his first of many books about America’s loss of direction when I began my formal education.