Correction from November 13 issue

Due to a reporting error, in last week’s cover story ["Trending Blue"], State Senator Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. was listed as an independent instead of a Republican. While many Republicans campaigned against Hanger during the primary season this year and supported more conservative challenger Scott Sayre, Hanger still won the nomination and has yet to […]

Other News We Heard Last Week

Tuesday, November 13Crack sentences may get reduced Julian Bond supports reducing sentences for crack-related offenses. After more relaxed guidelines for federal sentencing for future crack cocaine offenders were put in place last spring, an independent panel is today considering whether to retroactively reduce the sentences of federal inmates in prison for crack-related offenses. The Washington […]

Common(wealth) ground

More features: Colin Cowherd can go to hell or, How I stopped hating and learned to love the Virginia Football CavaliersRanked No. 14, the "Cardiac Cavs" are looking for an unexpected ACC title chance—and so much more—against Virginia Tech on Saturday Football in Virginia: the new Florida? A look at recruiting suggests…not quite 2007 UVA […]

Football in Virginia: the new Florida?

More features: Colin Cowherd can go to hell or, How I stopped hating and learned to love the Virginia Football CavaliersRanked No. 14, the "Cardiac Cavs" are looking for an unexpected ACC title chance—and so much more—against Virginia Tech on Saturday Common(wealth) groundTech has dominated the Cup challenge 2007 UVA Football highlightsVideo of the Cavaliers’ […]

Little Grey Sheep

cd Between his hometown of Austin, Texas and his musical muse’s residence of Charlottesville, Virginia, between his disarmingly green eyes or perhaps between the part of his brain that commands "Music!" and the parts of his body that respond, Danny Schmidt seems to keep a place where the competing forces of Song and Logic meet […]

The Gentle Laxative Demonstration EP [with audio]

cd These songs have killer guitar tones. That was the first thought that hit me when I popped local rock outfit Truman Sparks‘ new EP, The Gentle Laxative Demonstration, into my CD player. "Sysiphean Task" introduces the six-song release with majestic acoustic guitar strums over twinkling, fuzzy, electric arpeggios. The song rises, falls, fizzles and […]