WNRN Wake-Up Call: Local Politics

Rodney Thomas (click picture to learn more on cvillepedia)

Host Rick Moore talks with Rodney Thomas (Albemarle County Board of Supervisors) about local politics; taxes, economic development, school funding and emergency services. What needs would justify a tax increase? Doesn’t cutting the County budget affect area families through those lost jobs? How do we keep the schools so strong if we cut the budgets and trim the staff?



Breakfast with Minus the Bear

Minus the Bear with David Lowery, Miguel Urbiztondo, Tad Abbey and Ian Solla-Yates. Photo by Lynn Crounse

Sound of Music Recording Studio in Richmond played host to Minus the Bear on the morning of May 8th. They talked to Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven frontman and honorary WNRN personality, David Lowery about their tour and their latest album “Omni”. They also treated a small audience of winners to live versions of some of their new material. The tracks have been mastered to perfection by John Morand. Thank you to Lamplighter for providing coffee and breakfast and to Kulture for sponsoring the event! Check out youtube.com/wnrn.org for the videos!



Secretly Y’all: Leslie Channel Interviews Browning Porter

In November 2010, Leslie Channel, one of Secretly Y’all’s Co-Founders, and Browning Porter, a local writer, poet, musician and storyteller, got together to discuss the art of storytelling, it’s movement within Charlottesville and the relationship between storytelling and music.