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 […]
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Interspecies sexual relations are typically reserved for the seedier parts of the Internet…
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some faculty bristle at emergency memo
Marge Sidebottom had no idea the e-mail she sent several weeks ago with a page-long list of “Basic Classroom Emergency Procedures” would raise the hackles that it did. But by […]
Prof sees rift between students and athletes
One of the goals of the UVA athletics department is to graduate 100 percent of the student athletes who complete eligibility at the University. And while the department is on […]