Stringing students along
Charlottesville High School Orchestra conductor Laura Thomas hands me a photo and immediately begins to identify her former students. “There’s Tim Summers. And there’s Caroline Buckman.”
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Stringing students along
The CHS Orchestra and alumni honor the 25-year career of their conductor at The Paramount Theater
Charlottesville High School Orchestra conductor Laura Thomas hands me a photo and immediately begins to identify her former students. “There’s Tim Summers. And there’s Caroline Buckman.”
Has Mel Gibson gone completely nuts?
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Tuesday, November 28 Bring on the bike shorts: The Tour of Shenandoah grows up and becomes the Tour of Virginia, upping its competitiveness and adding Charlottesville to its list of cities. I want to ride my bicycle For four years, the Tour of Shenandoah was billed as a development race for cyclists ages 25 and […]
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Tuesday, November 21Together forever Old buddies Elton Brown (left) and Daryl Blackstock have played football together since their high school days. Now, the UVA football alums are struggling together in the NFL. Former University of Virginia football players share an “aww” moment in Hampton Roads’ Daily Press today. Arizona Cardinals guard Elton Brown and linebacker […]
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Tuesday, November 7 We are getting sleepy Researchers at UVA discovered that jet-lagged mice die early, according to a study released in Current Biology today. Scientists subjected older mice to periods of light and darkness meant to imitate international travel. Apparently, erratic schedules and being damn sleepy (not to mention the stress of finding such […]
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Tuesday, October 31 Currying favor The Curry School at UVA escaped the scathing admonishment of education schools in a Washington Post piece today, which reported on the shoddy state of ed programs across the country. David F. Labaree, an educational historian at Stanford, wrote in his book: “The ed school is the butt of jokes […]
Raelians are really spaced out
Do UFOs really exist? Do French people know something we don\’t? If either or both of these questions have ever plagued you, then you might find comfortâor at least a small congregation of like-minded peopleâat the main branch of the local library this weekend. That\’s when Charlottesville resident Marc Letourneau, the East Coast rep for the Raelian Movement,
First official weekend of the holiday season.
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Tuesday, October 24Psycho-babesApparently, you’re never too young to hit the leather couch. Shrinks are now targeting the playpen with new psychotherapies for babies and their parents, a Wall Street Journal article reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today. UVA researchers and others have developed a group therapy called the “Circle of Security,” which studies attachment […]
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Tuesday, October 17Mumps outbreak: It’s officialThe Thomas Jefferson Health District confirmed today that three of 17 UVA students with symptoms comparable with mumps have come down with the disease. As stipulated by the Centers for Disease Control, three confirmed infections of mumps officially qualifies as an outbreak, according to a press release from the University. […]