Greg Mortenson is the author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time. On March 27, 2008, Mortenson appeared at the Virginia Festival of the Book to discuss his work building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This talk is sponsored by the Village School.
Mar 312008
Greg Mortenson is the author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace… One School at a Time. On March 27, 2008, Mortenson appeared at the Virginia Festival of the Book to discuss his work building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This talk is sponsored by the Village School.
This weeks news headlines include: “Good To Great at Darden” and “Using Technology to Recruit Talent”. Ken’s interview guest is a Darden alumnus who recently returned to teach in the “Hot Topis In Finance” class. Jeanne Mockard of Putnam Investments was the first guest lecturer in the course that continues throughout the fourth quarter at Darden.
Mar 302008
WINA’s Dick Mountjoy died earlier this month at the age of 61 following a long battle with cancer. Jane Foy joined Coy Barefoot on the March 28, 2008 to celebrate the life of one of Charlottesville’s icons. Guests include Dick’s son Mike Mountjoy who announced that the Memorial Service will be held at St. Thomas Aquinas at 11:00 AM on Monday, March 31.
Other remembrances:
- Chris Callahan describes Dick’s start in radio and how he became Charlottesville’s Mayor in the Morning
- “Voice of the Cavaliers†Mac McDonald talks about how he learned from Dick
- Former WINA News Director Sarah McConnell explains how Dick taught her how to do the news
- Bob Gibson of the Daily Progress reminisces about knowing Dick for 40 years
- Other past WINA employees and listeners phone in with their memories
University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato says it is time to revisit the U.S. Constitution in order to improve our system of government. On March 29, 2008, he spoke in City Council Chambers as part of a Virginia Festival of the Book program sponsored the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Over the course of the hour long lecture, Sabato discussed 23 proposals to revitalize the Constitution and make America a fairer country. That’s the subject of Sabato’s new book, “A More Perfect Constitution.” He’s introduced by Robert O’Neill, President of the Thomas Jefferson Center.
In this installment of WNRN’s 91 Seconds on Film, Ben Nuckols has a review of Owen Wilson’s new film Drillbit Taylor, showing this week at the Carmike 6.
Mark Lorenzoni of the Ragged Mountain Running Shop joins Coy Barefoot for a preview of the Charlottesville Ten-Miler, which will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
Update from Sean Tubbs: Well, the Charlottesville Ten-Miler is a thing of the past, but the Charlottesville Podcasting Network is an archive, so I thought I’d update this blog with links to other posts here and there.
- Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris ran it for the first time
- The Hook has a great picture of the race from above
- A cVillain has a review of the race
- One blogger thanks her friends for supporting her in the race
Investigative reporter Aram Roston is the author of The Man who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. He joins Coy Barefoot on the March 25 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the rise of the former mathematician who Roston claims engineered U.S. policy by rigorously lobbying for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Mar 272008
Mother Courage and Her Children opens March 28th at Live Arts, downstage, the big stage, with Fran Smith [a Live Arts founder] playing the title character. Mother Courage was written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht — one of the heroes of modern theatre. This play is often considered the greatest anti-war play of all times. And now, Live Arts presents a new translation/adaptation by one of the greatest living English playwrights, David Hare.
If you can you image a time where war dominates the headlines, where economies hinge on that very war, and where the men in power say the war is necessary, yet won’t fight themselves – if you can image that – you might just find yourself among friends at Live Arts over the next month.
Satch Huizenga directs Mother Courage at Live Arts and we stole a few minutes of his time to ask how this 59 year old play remains timeless.
@ Live Arts March 28 to April 19, 2008
LiveArts.com or Box Office: 434-977-4177
[ photo: Fran Smith and Ron Hasson in Mother Courage and her Children at Live Arts - (c) Will Kerner ]
The 14th Annual Virginia Festival of the Book kicked off on March 26, 2008 with an event held in the McIntire Room at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. In the next fifty minutes, you’ll hear the winners of the Hook’s short story contest, proclamations from local officials, and more. The event begins with Robert Vaughan, president of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Read more at the Hook and at cvillewords.com.
Mar 262008
Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot for a weekly growth and development update.This week, Brian’s visit to Rose Hill Drive was greeted with two pies from teacher Cathy Carson, proving that Tuesday has in fact become pie day. Carson describes the pies, one of which she baked herself and one came from the Wayside Deli, and describes what makes a good pie.
After a tasting, Brian and Coy discuss:
- The Sorensen Institute hires Bob Gibson as its new executive director (Daily Progress)
- Planning Commission discusses East Pantops Sports Complex, car dealership
- Fifth and Avon Center gets approval from Board of Supervisor (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
- An update on the new Whole Foods (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
- Supervisors approve new developments in Fontana, Crozet, prompting concerns over interconnection (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
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Mar 262008
In today’s show, adapted from an article published this month on the Oscar Web site written by Brevy Cannon, we look at the work of UVa graduate student Karsten Nohl whose research has demonstrated that the encryption used by the now ubiquitous smart card is much easier to break than previously thought.
If you hold a credit card issued in the past 18 months, or use a touchless keycard to open doors at your office, or ride the subway with a reusable fare card, chances are good that you have used a card or ticket with a tiny wireless security chip embedded in it.
For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
Mar 262008
And now, the second installment of my series on Virginia’s eugenics movement, produced seven years ago with a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The first part can be heard here, and relates a general history of the eugenics movement, and the role Virginia played in legitimizing forced sterilizations.
This second seven and a half minute installment begins with the voice of the late Mitch Van Yahres reading a list of the offenses that could get you a vasectomy or your tubes tied, courtesy of the state. We then hear the voices of two former “patients” of the Virginia Colony for the Epileptic and the Feeble-minded, just north of Lynchburg in Madison Heights. Both live in Lynchburg, and I’m not sure what’s happened to them. When I spoke with them, the resolution expressing the state’s “profound regret” had not yet passed.
Since posting the first story last week, I was contacted by Paul Lombardo, the U.Va historian and bioethicist whose scholarship helped revive academic attention into this chapter of American and Virginia history. Paul tells me he’s writing a book on Buck v. Bell, which will come out this summer. He reminded me that then-Governor Mark Warner apologized for the eugenics era on May 2, 2002, the same day that a historic marker commemorating Carrie Buck was unveiled outside Region 10′s headquarters on Preston Avenue. Pictured on the left is Jesse Meadows, and Paul Lombardo is on the right.
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