Selena Cozart O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D., is a career learner. But even her extensive education couldn’t save her from losing her job as a public school administrator when the economy tanked in 2008. Now, the Philadelphia native and UVA alumna puts her experience and love of community to work from 9 to 5 as the resident services […]
All things to all men As I got older, the process of picking art apart for offending elements made less and less sense to me, and coincided not only with my own intellectual growth, but also with my father’s spiritual development. As he grew into his faith, his beliefs became more of a natural […]
Although Woods and Vonn just admitted that they’re dating, it must have been going on for some time. And if you think Woods wouldn’t be able to hide that from the press, remember, this guy slept with about 473 women (not all at once…I don’t think) and no one knew a thing.
The disciples Phillip Guddemi studied cultural anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz between 1973-1977. He took four classes from Bateson, which was enough to inspire him to pursue his graduate degree with another Batesonian scholar, Roy Rappaport, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Michigan whose research focused on Papua-New Guinea. Guddemi’s field work […]
Breaking the mold City Clay owner balances work and play Randy Bill was tired of waiting around for somebody to open a ceramics studio in Charlottesville, so she decided to do it herself. A Virginia native who moved around a lot but ended up back in Charlottesville in 1980, Bill said she’s had an entrepreneurial […]
Leaders of the new school Last week, Bellamy’s group HYPE joined efforts with City of Promise, which Davenport runs, to hold the first of a series of monthly breakfast sessions called Real Men 101 at the new Jefferson School City Center, which during segregation was Charlottesville’s black high school. The idea is to gather together […]
HELEN AND TOMMY SAUL Together 56 years Almost a year before they were married, Helen and Tommy Saul had their first date at The Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall. Now, 56 years later, you can still find them right where they started—volunteering as ushers at the door of the theater. It was on that […]
Free air When Ilkhom Muzzafarov and his wife Dilyara, her father, and their oldest son Ilyas arrived in Charlottesville seven years ago, they breathed a sigh of relief. Adjusting to a new climate and jet-lag had replaced police harassment and racial hatred as their immediate concerns. “We’re free here,” he said. “We’re safe. I’m not […]
Grandmaster Grandmaster Wang Fu-Lai was born in 1941 in Tsao-tun, Taiwan, in the center of the country. His father, a Taoist vegetarian, greatly admired Wang Shu-chin, a famed martial artist and a spiritual leader who espoused a universalist understanding of Tao principles. From the age of 16, Grandmaster Wang Fu-Lai awoke before dawn and rode […]
How has your perception of war changed as a journalist? Elliott Woods:“The most important way that my perspective on war has changed after becoming a journalist as opposed to when I was a soldier is that now I’m forced to really try hard to look at the engagement from as neutral a perspective as possible. […]