The man who would be king
Brace yourself, kids—we’re kick-starting this week’s column with a controversial, you-heard-it-here-first prediction: Senator John Warner will retire at the end of this, his fifth
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The man who would be king
This week on “Who Wants to be a Senator?”—Thomas M. Davis III, come on down!
Brace yourself, kids—we’re kick-starting this week’s column with a controversial, you-heard-it-here-first prediction: Senator John Warner will retire at the end of this, his fifth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
stage On April 23, William Shakespeare’s moldering corpse celebrated its 443rd year on this planet. The Bard’s body has little to hope for, besides one more year of slow decay. His body of work, on the other hand, can look forward to another year of life on stages around the world. One such stage is […]
Person Pitch
cd Panda Bear’s new album is built from striking found sounds and samples: tribal drum beats, underwater sound effects, planes taking off, nonverbal vocal incantations and various other oddities. It’s all very innovative and unusual, just the sort of one-of-a-kind pastiche you’d expect from a member of Brooklyn’s pre-eminent experimental pop group, Animal Collective. What […]
Def Jam: Icon
game Nobody can say that photographer didn’t have it coming to him. Seriously. Harrassing my man Ludacris, all up in his grill and trying to get a picture. I had no choice but to bust that stalkerazzi.You know, gotta keep it real and all that. Ahem. Excuse me while I stuff my white-boy street schtick […]
Getting by
“Both nationally and at UVA we are faced with high-volume, high-risk, and very serious illnesses,” Dr. Russ Federman said of campus counseling centers at a recent Senate committee hearing on campus safety. Following the Virginia Tech massacre, Federman has the ear of federal legislators under pressure to find fixes to prevent mentally ill students from […]
The life of the mind
My day to talk with Dr. Russ Federman about mental health at UVA comes just two days after the Virginia Tech shooting.
Overturned Virginia law will be reconsidered
Virginia’s ban on a specific type of abortion procedure (which the General Assembly called “partial birth infanticide”) may go into effect after all. The 2003 law, which made it a Class 4
Man dies after Wood Grill Robbery
A 48-year-old man died at UVA Hospital April 24, succumbing to injuries from a robbery and beating at the Wood Grill Buffet two weeks earlier. The robbery-turned-homicide marks the first county killing of 2007. Albemarle Police Lieutenant John Teixeira said the man, William Godsey of Schuyler, was accompanying a female employee of the Wood Grill […]
More money for fair trials
Correction appended “You have the right to an attorney”—it’s basic info well known to anyone who’s worn the cuffs a time or two. In the good ol’ U.S. of A., you have a right to a lawyer, even if you can’t afford one. But in Virginia, the system that provides counsel to the state’s poorest […]
What a difference a day makes
Six millimeters could’ve made all the difference for Christopher Allen Smith. While many cities have regulations that go beyond the federal rules on imitation firearms, all meet one minuscule requirement: “Each toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm shall have…a blaze orange plug inserted into the barrel of such toy…recessed no more than six millimeters from the […]