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 […]