Sixty-four years ago this July, a well-dressed, sassy and indomitable young black woman named Irene Morgan bought a $5 Greyhound bus ticket from the “Colored” window at Haye’s grocery store in Gloucester, Virginia. She was 27 years old, a mother of two, and on her way to visit a doctor in Baltimore, hoping to address […]
Sixty-four years ago this July, a well-dressed, sassy and indomitable young black woman named Irene Morgan bought a $5 Greyhound bus ticket from the “Colored” window at Haye’s grocery store in Gloucester, Virginia. She was 27 years old, a mother of two, and on her way to visit a doctor in Baltimore, hoping to address […]
How can we be sure our votes in the February 12 primaries were properly counted? We can trust and hope, but we cannot be certain. Charlottesville uses DRE voting machines (Directly Recording Electronic voting machines). While the city brags that these are not touch-screen machines, because we turn a dial instead of touching a screen, […]
Ace: Where have all the good Samaritans gone?—Eve Hull Eve: According to the Gospel of Luke, the good Samaritan took mercy on a man who was beaten and left for dead by robbers. Seems like his influence has reached far and wide because if you Google “good samaritans,” more than 500,000 results come up. Type […]
Ten years ago this month, a 27-year-old Louisiana native named Jeff Mangum and his band, Neutral Milk Hotel, released In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, an album that spent the ensuing years turning mixed reviews into a near-uniform chorus of praise.
It is not an exaggeration to call the Bach Cantata project of Nicholas Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt a landmark in the history of recorded music.
It is possible to court disaster with the naming of one’s publication. Dave Eggers famously dodged this fate by going over-the-top tongue-in-cheek with his 2000 novel, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. The anthology Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers—published locally by UVA-housed Meridian magazine and edited by faculty member Jeb Livingood—takes […]
A 50-year water supply plan that includes the expansion of the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and the construction of a pipeline received approval by the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), though people opposing the plan say that it is not yet a done deal.
Worked for city for: 1.5 years Resides in: Buckingham County. “I am willing to travel so far because I really do love my job.”Job title: Customer service supervisor. She’s been in the position since May. “I oversee the girls, help them with any difficult customers that we have,” says TenEyck. Before coming up to the […]
Leading up to Valentine’s Day, UVA students protested Dominion’s proposal for a new coal power plant in Wise County, Virginia, including stunts on the Lawn. But what about the emission spewing steam plant on Jefferson Park Avenue? Not dealing with the coal plant in our backyard is “a curious conundrum for local environmental advocates,” says […]
It’s here at last: The report from the Commission on the Future is now. After a year’s worth of work, it has a host of recommendations. “We learned in the school of hard knocks during the early 1990s that the University cannot be all things to all people,” reads the report, composed by a group […]