Tuesday, October 2
Mall bank robber sentenced
The lesson here: Pick a bank farther away from the police station. Jeffrey Alan Adams, who on June 1 attempted to rob the Union Bank & Trust on the Downtown Mall, was sentenced today for 11 years and three months in prison. After the reportedly well-dressed Adams entered the bank and was seen by witnesses locking the doors behind him, Charlottesville police responded before he could leave the bank with an estimated $87,000. So maybe, after all, the lesson here is to pick a bank that doesn’t have a bunch of windows.
Wednesday, October 3
Shepard Style
Pulitzer-prize winning playwright, actor and onetime Charlottesville resident Sam Shepard popped up in GQ’s 50th Anniversary Issue as one of the 50 most stylish men in the past 50 years. The author of True West (one of his more than 40 plays) used to be a fixture of the local bar scene. He’s seen slouching against a wooden fence in the magazine. “Even when Sam Shepard is photographed in color,” GQ says, “he looks like a long figure in one of those Walker Evans sepia-tinted photos from the Dust Bowl.” Being the iconic symbol of the West that he is, Shepard probably wouldn’t mind the description.
Barack Obama is set to rock the Pavilion on October 29 with a fundraising event. While Hillary Clinton is said to be the Democratic frontrunner, maybe all he needs is a shot in the arm, Charlottesville-style.
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Thursday, October 4
Obama’s a go
O.K., Charlottesville, Barack Obama’s officially coming to town, so shape up and shell out. It was announced today that Obama will hold a fundraising event at the Pavilion October 29. It starts at 7pm and tickets cost $29. If you’re a student, the shindig’s going to cost you $15. There are also “Orchestra” tickets available, though no word on if you’ll have to share elbow room with a bassoon. You can buy tickets online at www.my.barackobama.com/C2CVA. That’s Obama for you, hot on the heels of Wilco.
Friday, October 5
Capshaw cozies up with Radiohead
Even though the thinking person’s rockers, Radiohead, still plans to release its newest album, In Rainbows, on its website for what amounts to fans’ donations, the English band won’t give up on doing things the old-fashioned way. Billboard.com reports that Radiohead is closing in on a deal with one of two labels, both of which fall under the media empire owned by Charlottesville’s own Coran Capshaw. ATO, a Capshaw company, is apparently seen as the forerunner in the race to sign Radiohead, thanks in part to its acquisition of Phil Costello, a former senior VP at Capitol. Waiting in the wings is another Capshaw venture, Side One Recordings, which is a label co-owned by Red Light Management and ATO. Both are part of the Capshaw machine, which is based in the former SNL building on the Downtown Mall at the corner of Fourth Street. The album, not due out until next year, is Radiohead’s seventh. All of this comes after Red Light Management signed The Decemberists, Alanis Morissette and Band of Horses to management deals back in August.
UVA puts the “student” in student-athlete. Cavalier football and men’s basketball teams exceed national graduation rates, while women’s field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball and tennis teams graduated all of their members. And they don’t suck!
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Saturday, October 6
UVA athletes actually students, too
The Hampton Roads Daily Press reported today that UVA football and men’s basketball teams exceeded national average graduation success rates. Let’s forget for a quick moment that the average graduation rate for men’s basketball was 63.6 percent. UVA’s men’s basketball graduation rate of 80 percent is still pretty good. Women’s teams did significantly better than men’s at UVA. The Hoos field hockey, lacrosse, volleyball and tennis teams graduated all of their members, as did the men’s swimming and tennis squads.
Presidential daughter Jenna Bush and her financé, Harry Hager, a student at UVA’s Darden School, appear in this week’s People magazine. One of the questions dodged in the article: Where will the couple settle down?
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Sunday, October 7
Charlottesville real estate advice for Bush
In the recent issue of People, POTUS daughter Jenna Bush dodges the hard-hitting questions of where she and fiancé Henry Hager will settle down. Perhaps Charlottesville? Hager is a resident, after all, finishing up his business degree at UVA’s Darden School. “I really haven’t thought about it,” Jenna said. “Where he gets a job and I get a job. We won’t know.” Well, if the first daughter and future Bushie son-in-law don’t mind a little advice from C-VILLE, now’s the time to be condo shopping in Charlottesville. Assuming, you know, that the happy couple can scrape together a down payment.
Monday, October 8
And how are you today?
Good? Doing pretty great? A-O.K.? That might not be a good thing, according to an editorial in today’s Times of Trenton. The New Jersey paper pointed to a study by UVA psychologist Shigehir Oishi that found that people need a certain ratio of positive to negative events in their lives to be happy. Oishi also discovered that people who have a large ratio of positive to negative events don’t get much pleasure from additional happy events. They even suffer larger adverse effects when encountering negative events, meaning good things make them less happy while bad things make them even sadder. So with this in mind, get out there and have yourself a crappy day.
