Tuesday, August 28
Hutto to Roanoke: No thanks
The Roanoke Times chides the city’s government in an editorial today because of mixed signals city councilors apparently sent to Kirby Hutto, who runs the Charlottesville Pavilion for Red Light Management. Some Star City councilors approached Hutto and Red Light about managing a new amphitheater to be built at a site near the Roanoke River; others, it’s alleged, discouraged him from submitting proposals—possibly because they favored a different location. "We’re not interested in getting in the middle of Roanoke politics," Hutto told the Times. The editorial responds, "Roanoke citizens deserve much better than the civil wars council members have been fighting." Yeah, but do they deserve another visit from Phil Lesh & Friends?
Charlottesville Pavilion manager and Red Light Management player Kirby Hutto declined to step in the middle of a Roanoke City Council kerfuffle, possibly costing the city a new Right Light amphitheater.
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Wednesday, August 29
Liberty Council argues against same-sex marriage rights
Rena Lindevaldsen, an assistant professor of law at Liberty University School of Law, argued today that Virginia should not recognize any rights associated with same-sex marriages in Vermont. Liberty Council is representing Lisa Miller, who was artificially inseminated while married to Janet Jenkis. Long story short, they split up and Miller, who now lives in Virginia and has apparently discontinued her "lesbian lifestyle," doesn’t want Jenkins to be declared a parent to the child. Says Matthew D. Staver of Liberty Council: "Regarding same-sex civil unions, what happens in Vermont stays in Vermont."
Turns out that former Hoo Katie Couric, anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," is ambitious, which was biographer Edward Klein’s big find. And that’s O.K.…if you’ve got a Y chromosome.
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Thursday, August 30
Post stands up for Katie
The Washington Post includes a review by Louis Bayard that—in its scathing reaction to Edward Klein’s unauthorized bio of Katie Couric—amounts to a defense of the managing editor and anchor of the "CBS Evening News." Klein takes aim, it seems, at the fact that Couric, a UVA grad, is ambitious, which as Bayard points out, is a trait common to people in high-profile careers. In the past, Bayard has written about Hillary Clinton, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. "Maybe it’s time…for Edward Klein to find an ambitious woman he likes," zings Bayard.
Friday, August 31
UVA grad does a tough job on TV
Twenty-one-year-old Monica Groves is the subject of a miniseries, airing this week on the Sundance Channel, that documents her adventures in her first year of teaching at a low-income public school in Atlanta. Undoubtedly it’s a pretty different environment than the one she was used to as a UVA student. The four-part series, "The Education of Ms. Groves," concentrates on one especially difficult fourth-period class, and three of the troubled kids in it. Says a reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, "You’ll want to get out your handkerchiefs."
