Charlottesville Podcasting Network

Storycorps is an organization with a mission to capture oral histories from around the world. You may have heard their work on NPR. For the next two weeks, the group is in Charlottesville with one of their Mobile Booths to collect stories from Central Virginia. We stopped by on the first day.

(Another version of this story originally aired on WVTF Public Radio)

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CPN is proud to announce the first in a pilot series of podcasts of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call. Rick Moore hosts this weekly call-in public affairs program, heard every Sunday at 11:00 AM. But WNRN has given us permission to post a copy of the show as an mp3 program on an experimental basis to test the audience. Is this something you’re interested in? Let us know.

In this week’s show, Rick gives a passionate salute to Memorial Day and then talks politics with Steve Bragaw of Sweet Briar College. Rick and Steve talk about the filibuster controversey, George Allen’s political future, and the race for governor in Virginia.

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This audio postcard is a sonic glimpse into the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, near Naples, Florida from documentary photographer David Duncan. He’ll be posting more audio postcards in the weeks and months to come.

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This posting from Amy Marshall is the first of CPN’s efforts towards “citizens’ journalism” - This is where anyone can go out with a microphone and a recording device, and we’ll help them put it together. Please contact me if you’re interested in enrolling in a June seminar on “How to record audio and learn to edit in twenty easy steps.”

For now, though, Charlottesville’s Amy Marshall recently attended a presentation put on by the Virginia Writer’s Club, featuring popular local author Susan Tyler Hitchcock. Amy found out about the local Club chapter and picked up some tips on how to negotiate the publishing world, by talking with Linda Layne, Executive Director of the Club, and Hitchcock herself after the presentation.

 

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Walter Sokel is Professor Emeritus of German and English at the University of Virginia. He came to the University from Stanford in 1972. Originally from Vienna, he migrated to the United States to escape fascism. On April 21, 2005, Sokel presented a paper entitled “The Birth of Eugenics and of Justice from the Spirit of Tragedy: Reflections on the Dionysian in Nietzsche.” The lecture was recorded in Jefferson Hall, and runs for just under an hour. Sokel will explain in the first minute or so how the title of the presentation had to be amended for time considerations.

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Fifty-one years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education ruling, clearing the way for the eventual desegregation of the nation’s schools. But, the transition was far from easy, according to Michael Klarman, a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality.” On May 9, Klarman spoke at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library on Market Street as part of UVa’s Engaging the Mind series.

 

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Who owns the media? Does media ownership affect how Americans are informed about the issues of the day? Which news sources can you trust to seek out the truth in an age when the conduits of information are controlled by so few companies?

On May 9, 2005, C-Ville Weekly assembled a group of independent journalists and media activists for a panel discussion called “Take Back the Media.” Jonathan Rintels is with the Center for Creative Voices in the Media, an organization that’s leading a campaign to create a Media Bill of Rights. Robert O’Neil is the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the organization that hands out the annual Muzzle Awards. Roxanne Cooper is the sales director for the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, and also runs a blog called Rox Populi. Jessica Coen is the editor of gawker.com, a hotspot for NYC-based pop culture and media gossip. And the moderator is syndicated cartoonist Jen Sorenson, whose Slowpoke runs in C-Ville Weekly every Tuesday.

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Comic books are traditionally drawn by an artist who uses pen and ink to depict action on a page. These days, many people might be surprised to know that comics are often touched up with Photoshop. But the characters in a new graphic novel coming out this month from Charlottesville artist Colin Whitlow are real people, captured using a digital camera, resulting in a cross between a film and a comic. I talked with Whitlow earlier this month in his office in the University of Virginia’s Studio Art Department, where Whitlow is an Anspaugh fellow.

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In May 2005, writer and radio essayist Janis Jaquith interviewed Academy Award-winning actress Sissy Spacek at Charlottesville’s Paramount Theater. The event was the kickoff of the successful campaign to raise the funds for the construction of The Community Chalkboard and Podium: A Monument to the First Amendment. The monument was dedicated in Charlottesville in April, 2006.

 

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Superheroes like Spiderman, Superman and Batman have made a lot of money on the big screen, but sales of the actual comics have been declining for decades. This Saturday’s Free Comic Book Day is an attempt by Diamond Distributors to remedy that by giving people a taste of the power of comics.

Two stores in Charlottesville are participating in the giveaway, including Atlas Comics on the Seminole Trail. We stopped by to get the low-down.

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