Less than super [February 6]

Super Tuesday, folks, is not for everyone: On Tuesday, the Virginia State Board of Elections received upwards of 700 phone calls from voters who, according to the Washington Post, called to find out where they could cast their votes for the Virginia presidential primary. The only problem?

Joel Rubin and Pete Rushefsky

The following is a verbatim transcription of the dialogue between my id (which we’ll call “Blabbermouth Brendan”) and superego (“Neurotic Brendan”) during a performance by UVA Klezmer Ensemble leader Joel Rubin and Pete Rushefsky, a friend of Rubin since the two performed regularly together in upstate New York. Torah the Explorer? No, it’s Joel Rubin […]

Wise decisions [February 2]

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has added a second public hearing and extended its public comment period for Dominion Power’s controversial proposed coal-fired power plant in Wise County. In January C-VILLE reported on the State Corporation Commission’s public hearing on the Wise County plant, a hearing that lasted more than 11 hours and […]

TJ, the self-serving swindler [January 3]

The patron saint of Charlottesville is taking several more blows to his reputation thanks to a new book, Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson, reviewed in today’s Washington Post. The book portrays the post-presidential Jefferson as “an irresponsible, impractical, self-serving and self-deluded man who rarely lived up to his ideals.” In one […]

Blue scare [February 4]

Frothy-mouthed carpetbagging liberals are raising their skinny fair-trade lattes this morning, in a toast to the news that Frank Perriello, Democratic challenger to Republican Congressman Virgil Goode, raised more money than the incumbent in calendar year 2007.

You’re looking at country

I’m getting spooked,” says Anna Matijasic, the 26-year-old fiddler for Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees, and I know the feeling, a dull pounding in my gut. More: Country GrammarRecords that Jim Waive was listening to while recording Strike a Match It’s a bit past 8pm on a Wednesday last September. Jim Waive and the […]

Country Grammar

More: You’re looking at countryJim Waive readies his second record “I just came in here from force of habit. I don’t intend to spend too much time in here,” sings bestselling country musician and “Hee Haw” host Buck Owens. “But I heard you marching for the music. And if you play ‘A-11,’ there’ll be tears.” […]