"Outside, if you look at the LDS church, it looks pretty wacky,” says Bryan Kasik, sitting in Java Java on the Downtown Mall. “This farm boy from New York has a vision of golden plates and then he writes this entire book.” A Mormon, Kasik is talking about the founder of his church, Joseph Smith, […]
The prophet claims that he was only 14 when he was first visited by the Heavenly Father and his son, Jesus Christ, in the form of two pillars of fire. A few years later, the angel Moroni began to visit him and did so for four years straight until directing Smith to the hill Cumorah […]
On Monday, January 21, the world markets looked like they were spiraling out of control.
For the second year in a row, UVA set a record for the number of admission applications it received. Not that you’re unimpressed by such a record, because clearly UVA exudes impressiveness, but this was also the first year since the 1960s that the University hasn’t had an early decision program. Administrators are happy that […]
Heather Fischer Year: Senior Major: History, with a minor in studies in women and gender Hometown: Warrenton, Virginia What’s in your backpack? Vitaminwater, notebook, laptop, The Nation magazine, Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
On the morning of March 30, 2007, Raelyn Alene Balfour set out for her work at the Judge Advocate General’s School next to the UVA law school. First she had to drop her husband off at his job at the National Ground Intelligence Center before then taking her 9-month-old son, Bryce, to his babysitter. After […]
Brown’s Cleaners on Preston says in a lawsuit that they didn’t lose Emily Feiner’s wedding dress, but Ben Feiner submitted a ticket suggesting otherwise. Plaintiff: Emily B. and Benjamin R. Feiner Defendant: Brown’s Dry Cleaners, Inc. What’s at issue: Whether or not a wedding dress was dropped off on May 29. Ben Feiner claims it […]
More features from this issue: When the Latter-day Saints come marching in With a new church on Airport Road and their numbers growing nationwide, local Mormons are unwavering in their faith A lot on his plates How Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church White and black The Mormon Church struggles to shake the stigma of […]
More features from this issue: When the Latter-day Saints come marching in With a new church on Airport Road and their numbers growing nationwide, local Mormons are unwavering in their faith A lot on his plates How Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church All in the family The old practice of polygamy still dogs the […]
Due to a reporting error, the story “Hundreds flood Richmond to oppose new coal plant,” said that “According to [Tom] Cormons, the SCC’s decision on the plant isn’t expected for at least two weeks.” The SCC evidentiary hearing begins on February 5 and may last several days. A decision on the power plant isn’t expected […]