My grandmother is looking for an apartment in downtown Charlottesville. One level, two bedrooms, ideally above ground floor (the higher the better), elevator in the building. If anybody has any suggestions of such spaces available in the next few months, I’d love to hear about it.
Category Archives: Charlottesville
VPTC business blog panel.
I’ll be speaking on a panel next month that, for once, is open the public. November 17 VPTC Speakers Luncheon to Focus on How Blogs, Podcasting and RSS Feeds are Changing Business Communications CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 25 — The Virginia Piedmont Technology Council (VPTC) will host a speakers luncheon at the Omni Hotel in downtown …
Polyglot Conspiracy.
I wrote a couple of months ago about one of my favorite Charlottesville blogs, Bill Emory’s photoblog. It’s not alone on my list of local must-reads, though. Polyglot Conspiracy is a blog after my own heart. It’s a site entirely about the quirks of the English language, tracking its evolution, uses, and misuses. Recent entries …
The time I was a roadie for The Rolling Stones.
For the past two days, I had a brief but undistinguished career as a roadie 1 for the Rolling Stones. For reasons not worth explaining, I was asked to work on the crew setting up for the Thursday Stones show here in Charlottesville. Because I’m stupid, I said “yes.” (Both my mother and I tend …
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Fall has fallen.
Wow, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday was the first full day of autumn, and autumn has surely descended upon us. Thursday was warm — maybe around 90° — but yesterday couldn’t have gotten much out of the 70s. It got windy, scattering yellow and brown leaves across the roads. Today it’s overcast, in …
Nothing NeW here.
The Hook has a story about a UVa student who has started a local chapter of a new conservative women’s-rights (or anti-rights, or whatever) organization. I like this bit: They say a liberal orthodoxy in women’s studies classes unfairly paints men as evil and society as an oppressive patriarchy, and ignores differences between the sexes. …
Not just crying wolf.
An old friend, Jeff Wadlow, will have his first full-length feature film open on 1,600 screens across North America tomorrow. Cry_Wolf is a 90-minute thriller that he filmed in Richmond on a $1M budget, only to have it picked up by a major studio, have all kinds of companies pitch in some bad-ass post-production work, …
Meth’s local toll.
I’ve been getting my hair cut at the same place since I was a kid. About a year ago, one of the barbers disappeared. He’d posted angry signs along the streets near the shop advertising that he’d left the shop and was at a new place. That’s a little scandalous for this 50-year-old family-owned business. …
Goode still subject of MZM investigation.
The story of MZM, Inc. and Rep. Virgil Goode continues to unfold. From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, has been another target of Wade’s political contributions. MZM has given $87,476 to Goode, mostly in the form of individual contributions from employees. Goode was instrumental in …
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Blog summit report.
The Sorensen Institute’s Summit on Blogging and Democracy in the Commonwealth was held today. Wedding preparations don’t give me the time to do a proper report (or, likely, blog very much for the rest of the week). Suffice it to say, it went well, particularly once things really got humming in the afternoon. About sixty …