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Not make-believe: Kids can visit the neighborhood Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
It was an especially poignant moment when I learned that Fred Rogers had passed away. The man loomed especially large for me, because I was raised in Mister Rogers’ neighborhood. Really. I remember...
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Jam-tastic Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
Something tells me that the Wednesday night performance of North Carolina’s The Recipe is going to be big. The band possesses all those traits a lot of people in town hold close to their heart, being...
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Welcome back: Traveler tours his "home" Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
There are writers who avoid the pedestal from which they might be admired. They write of the mundane phenomena of the world with humility, and we appreciate their insights without crediting them....
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Fishy business: Finny festival in Waynesboro Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
Did you know that Waynesboro is one of only one two Virginia towns with an urban trout stream? At first glance, the South River may appear to be just another beautiful Shenandoah Valley river, but a...
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Hear that? It's the seasons changing Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
UVA music professor Matthew Burtner spent his early childhood in a small village on the Arctic Ocean, the mountains outside of Anchorage, and on fishing boats on Alaska's southwest coast. He says his...
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Sketchy: Herblock could be biting Published on Mar 27th, 2003 0 comments
When it comes to the dour, farcical invention that is politics, a dose of humor is certainly welcome. This spring, the UVA Center for Politics hosts a symposium on humor in politics, and in...
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Dreamy: Magic rules CHS production Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
It was an annual spring ritual when I was growing up for the teachers at my elementary school to march the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades across town to watch the dress rehearsal of the high school’...
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Charming: Get down with Bishop Allen Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
It’s a tossup whether it’s more enjoyable to read the liner notes to the indie-pop group Bishop Allen’s first release, Charm School, than it is to listen to their music. But for once I mean that in...
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Making meaning: Does war validate us? Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
A historian cited by war correspondent Chris Hedges in his new book has deduced that in the entire history of humankind, there have been just 29 years of global peace. Man, apparently, is more...
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Walk the Walk: Get moving to save lives Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
Move your body. Save a life. For the next two Saturdays, community members will have a chance to join the fight against two of the most pervasive killers around: breast cancer and AIDS. Chances are...
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Fasten your belt: Ups and downs in Des Moines Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
“I like plays that are not too neat, too finished, too presentable,” says Charles Mee, a playwright, novelist, and historian. “My plays are broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges, filled with things...
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Varied: Art motifs imitate music Published on Mar 20th, 2003 0 comments
Artist Farida Hughes name-checks composers Edward Elgar and J.S. Bach before she mentions any hotshot canvas jockeys, and it’s this interest in musical form which loosely inspires her latest exhibit...
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Local luminaries: Inspiration for writerly kids Published on Mar 13th, 2003 0 comments
Spring is my favorite time of year. Yes, it’s getting warmer and flowers are starting to sprout, but one of the best parts of spring is the Virginia Festival of the Book.This year’s family events at...
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Sound familiar? Clarks play to the status quo Published on Mar 13th, 2003 0 comments
When I listen to The Clarks’ new LP, Another Happy Ending, I see a crowded bar somewhere in the mid-west, with farm-hands sitting next to pretty farmers’ daughters swilling their Bud Dry, the whole...
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Regal fun: Mattress enchants with laughter Published on Mar 13th, 2003 0 comments
Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea,” Mary Rodgers (Richard Rodgers’ daughter) and Marshall Barer penned the musical Once Upon a Mattress at a summer writing...
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Art of eating: Spring clean your body! Published on Mar 13th, 2003 0 comments
Supported by local yoga studios like Union Yoga Loft and Studio 206, Sara Avant Stover’s starting a food-related revolution in Charlottesville. This 25-year-old yoga teacher, bodyworker, and health...
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Eat it up! Culture-pirating serious and silly Published on Mar 13th, 2003 0 comments
It seems almost painfully self-evident that humorous things make people laugh, except that it’s not always true. There is a secondary category of things– sometimes brainy, pointed, and/or...
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Don't laugh! Old folkster's message to kids Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
When my kids were little and we’d set off on a long road trip, my bag of traveling tricks would always include several Peter, Paul, and Mary tapes. And as we rolled along the New Jersey Turnpike on...
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Divine Disney: The Magic Kingdom of heaven Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
Postmodernism is a self-fulfilling concept. As a rejection of other precepts that had long since outgrown their revolutionary geneses, postmodernism was hip. As a nebulous philosophical zone that...
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Super sweet? Palomar's hyper power pop Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
Imagine, if you will, a dark and stormy night in the lab of Dr. Frankenstein. Having already created life once, he turns his attention to giving form and free will to something even more challenging...
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Sweet treats: Witty music weaves mystery Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
In 1939, Gian Carlo Menotti received a commission from the National Broadcasting Company to write the first opera specifically composed for a radio listening audience. The result was the one-act...
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Ruinous "renewal": Probing the legacy of Vinegar Hill Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
Most of us know it now as the name of a theater, or perhaps through the living history of Teresa Dowel-Vest’s play, but Vinegar Hill was once much more. For over a century, the neighborhood was the...
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Spacey: Samelson's inspired doodles Published on Mar 6th, 2003 0 comments
If the work in Andra Samelson’s exhibit at the Fayerweather Gallery, the cosmic-theme “Ephemeris” looks like the sort of thing that someone might have doodled while talking on the phone, it’s for...
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Living the legend: Mandan life on display Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
Pint-sized adventurers who wander down the hall to the Back Gallery at the Virginia Discovery Museum often find themselves in another world. Until May 4, these explorers can tread in the tracks of...
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Local debut: Heavy stuff for teens' souls Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
It’s been a long time since I was a teenager, plowing through three or four 130-page books a week, eagerly exercising a reader’s young appetite.I read books called The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and...
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Still "king": Earnhart & friends take the Prism Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
The upcoming week is packed with great shows: Scene Creamers on Friday at Tokyo Rose (the new band of Ian Svenonius and Michelle Mae, formerly of D.C.-based The Make-Up); a CD release party for local...
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Short ones: Barhoppers back at the rail Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
Barhoppers 2003 continues Offstage Theater's winter tradition of transforming some Charlottesville watering holes into theatrical venues. It's an evening of eight short plays by local playwrights....
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Fat Saturday: Mardi Gras on the slopes Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
Booze, beads, boobs, bawdy behavior-– what would Mardi Gras be without these indulgent ingredients? Is it possible to celebrate this most decadent of holidays in a healthy, family-friendly fashion?...
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Zoo story? Animals up close and personal Published on Feb 27th, 2003 0 comments
For his exhibit at the Second Street Gallery, National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols has gone enlargement crazy. He’s blown up his photos from 35 millimeter prints into absolutely huge,...
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If you build it... Engineers want people to come Published on Feb 20th, 2003 0 comments
It’s National Engineering Week, and to cap off their week-long celebration, Engineering School is getting out all their toys and inviting the community– especially middle and high school kids...
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