Area shotputter headed to Olympics [April 15]
Less than four months before the Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, NPR profiles one of America’s top medal hopes, Adam Nelson.
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Area shotputter headed to Olympics [April 15]
Won silver in 2000 and 2004
Less than four months before the Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, NPR profiles one of America’s top medal hopes, Adam Nelson.
Scalia revisits TJ’s religious views [April 11]
Thomas Jefferson never intended to cut religion out of government, according to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Hoop dreams come true [April 10]
UVA women’s basketball point guard Sharnee Zoll, the ACC’s all-time assists leader…
Gunfire inside van leaves two men shot [April 9]
Three people were hospitalized yesterday after a “bizarre” shooting that took place inside a van on Meade and Fairway avenues…
Area homeless numbers rise [April 8]
The number of area homeless is rising, according to the results of a survey conducted by the…
Volume One [with audio]
“What can you do with a sentimental heart?” asks actress Zooey Deschanel on the opening track of Volume One, her debut album with songwriter M. Ward. Answer: You can swoon to these tunes for days and days. Listen to "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?" from She & Him‘s Volume One: powered by ODEOCourtesy […]
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Nobody—and I mean nobody—does fan service like Nintendo. The Big N may take a ridiculously long time to get the job done—in the case of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, we’re talking seven whopping years since our Pikachu-pummeling hearts were thrilled by the Gamecube’s Smash Bros. Melee—but the wait’s been more than worth it. Think Hillary […]
Sisyphus or Hercules?
I recently spent a beautiful spring day among the historic confines of the University’s Miller Center as an audience member during the second public meeting of the Virginia Commission on Climate Change held on March 27. From my seat in the Forum Room, it dawned on me that the Commission potentially faces a Sisyphusian task—they […]
You can’t say that!
More:Juggling your rightsChris Bliss to perform at Thomas Jefferson Center fundraiser When it came to freedom of speech, Thomas Jefferson’s view boils down to this: Use it, without limits, or lose it. Eighteen years ago, a local newspaperman named Tom Worrell established the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and since then, […]
A diplomat’s end [April 5]
An obituary for David Newsom—a 90-year-old former U.S. ambassador and veteran of the State Department during the Iranian Hostage Crisis—ran in the New York Times, noting Newsom’s death at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Newsom was a critic of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration and its wide support of the admission of Iranian Shah […]