Sons of Bill’s excellent adventure
James and Sam Wilson agree to wait as I prep my tape recorder for what they call “The Van Story.” The brothers
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Tuesday, June 12Elisa Kelly locked up After serving beer at her son Ryan’s 16th birthday party five years ago, Elisa Kelly began serving something completely different this week: her 27-month jail sentence. Kelly was charged with nine misdemeanor counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Originally sentenced to eight years (eight years!), the […]
What’s the big idea?
Born and raised in Charlottesville, Anne-Marie Slaughter graduated from St. Anne’s-Belfield in 1976 and left to go to Princeton where she eventually became the university’s dean of the Woodrow Wilson School. Earlier this year, she was named the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for excellence in the field of law. Shortly afterwards, Slaughter published […]
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Tuesday, June 5UVA baseball loses in regional, again Make it four straight years the Cavaliers have been bounced out of the NCAA tournament regional before making it to Omaha. But, man, this one might have hurt a little more. Defending national champion Oregon State ended the Cavs’ season today on Davenport Field, beating them 7-3. […]
Night visions
Shentai. The word comes off like a reprimand, a breathy admonition, an erotic, Orient-tinged term best used close to the ear—a two-syllable tantalization forming out of the ether and
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Tuesday, May 29Transit proposal gets props Let’s face it: Charlottesville has a rockin’ national rep. We might not be No. 1 any longer (enter sigh of relief here), but we still lead among American cities. Today’s USA Today lauds the city’s proposal to cut out bus fares as a way of upping ridership on public […]
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Tuesday, May 22Grisham on “Dateline NBC” John Grisham, famous local author and recent UVA commencement speaker, appeared on “Dateline NBC” tonight to discuss his recent book, The Innocent Man. Grisham’s first nonfiction book tells the tale of Ronald Keith Williamson, former minor league baseball hopeful and resident of Ada, Oklahoma, who was wrongfully accused of […]
You say it’s your birthday?
“Love, love, love… Love, love, love…” So went the rather simplistic beginning to The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” As a BBC TV camera closed in on John Lennon bedecked with a tiara of some sort, he followed with a verse that began, “There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done, nothing you […]
A night in Tune-isia
For facile or recklessly daring musical minds, “fusion” is just another word for “confusion.” For Brennan Gilmore and his bandmates, however, intelligently mixing together two distinct genres of music creates a potent potion. Kantara plays “Arab-Appalachian music,” and if that conjures up an image of Mohammed and Jesus dancing a jig on a prayer rug, […]
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Tuesday, May 15TEC hittin’ the beach Need more proof that defense contracting is big local business? The Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor has awarded a $30 million defense contract to TEC Inc. Joint Venture, based in Charlottesville, MSN Money reports. The contract is for “environmental planning to support strategic initiatives” in Guam, Hawaii, […]