UVA punt returner tackled by the law [March 4]
Just two-and-a-half years ago, Michael Antwain Brown, Jr. came to UVA to cover receivers and evade would be tacklers as the punt returner for the football team.
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UVA punt returner tackled by the law [March 4]
Charged with larceny and possession of pot
Just two-and-a-half years ago, Michael Antwain Brown, Jr. came to UVA to cover receivers and evade would be tacklers as the punt returner for the football team.
Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco
I spend the first five minutes of Cirque du Soleil’s opening night at the John Paul Jones Arena, the first performance in a five-night stand by the Canadian-spectacle-gone-Vegas-glitz-fest, not writing a thing. Instead, I mutter awed syllables with the people around me, cutting phrases like “Did you see that?” and “How’d those trapeze artists pull […]
Car business ain’t booming [March 1]
Auto sales are down, but not at Colonial Auto Center. That’s according to an AP story that quotes Colonial’s president Kip Rowe, who says that sales of foreign brands will save his company from lower February numbers than it posted in the same month last year. (Ford and GM models are selling much worse for […]
“Whitest Kids” and greenest booze [March 2]
Back with a castmate from a trip to Los Angeles, 27-year-old Trevor Moore, former host of local public access comedy show “The Trevor Moore Show” and currently one of five members of New York-based sketch comedy troupe the Whitest Kids U’ Know, decided to introduce his colleagues (and New York Times columnist Amanda Stern) to […]
Post visits UVA’s JuicyCampus [March 3]
The national media spent much of February expressing its shock (and titillation) about JuicyCampus.com, a website started by a Duke grad to air dorm room gossip publicly and anonymously.
UVA ranks No. 2 in undergrad business schools [February 29]
The March 10 issue of BusinessWeek ranks UVA’ McIntire School of Commerce at No. 2 in undergraduate business schools.
National angst clouds our “sound” local economy [February 28]
A press release today from the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce revealed the results of their 2008 Member Economic Survey, and characterized our fair city as a small center of calm within jittery America.
Van Halen reschedules concert [February 28]
Van Halen postponed their February 22 gig at John Paul Jones Arena, but fans need not fear: The band will return to make up the show on March 11.
Mountain lion terrorizes Crozet [February 27]
State gaming officials have told residents along St. George Avenue in Crozet not to go outside by themselves for fear of a mountain lion attack…
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