Charlottesville-Right Now: Brian Wheeler

Brian Wheeler, Executive Director of Charlottesville Tomorrow joined Charlottesville Right Now to discuss growth and development issues.

  • Brian reports on his field trip to Pennsylvania on which he saw many signs advertising interesting kinds of pie. Brian will be a judge for the Fall Charlottesville Piedown. Caller Kathy reports back with a definition of what shoofly pie is.
  • Brian reports on the smaller version of the new Whole Foods that will be built on Hydraulic Road in Charlottesville. (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
  • An update on the Places29 Master Plan. (Charlottesville Tomorrow)
  • Brian briefs listeners on the Three Party Agreement, which now has its own entry on cvillepedia.
  • Trader Joe’s has filed an ABC permit for a new store to be built in Albemarle Place (C-Ville Weekly)



Noise-pop band Jodienda at the Tea Bazaar Tonight

tour-sheetWhen we started the Charlottesville Podcasting Network back in 2005, one of the ideas was to do as many interviews as we could to support bands that were coming into town. Sadly, we’ve only been able to do that on a… very limited fashion. However, last week I was contacted by the members of Jodienda to see if I could help promote their gig at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. I said I wanted to use them as guinea pigs for a new generation of interviews, and so on Sunday morning we spoke via Skype for this brief interview.

Jodienda is playing tonight at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar on June 15th, 2009. Also playing are Your Animal Spirit in the Unreal City and Fluffy Lumbers.

Master the Art of Reading with the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library

Libraries all over the country host summer reading programs for kids, complete with prizes — but why should youngsters have all the fun? This year, the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library plans to include the grown-ups in a program called Master the Art of Reading (pdf). In this podcast, Elizabeth McCullough of WriterHouse talks with Krista Farrell, the library’s assistant director and manager of the Central branch in downtown Charlottesville. Listen to find out how you can Master the Art of Reading.