Author: Dan Gould

Dan has been a regular contributor to the Charlottesville Podcasting Network since 2008. He has produced over 1000 feature length podcasts for the site.
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Straight Talk: Kent Williamson

Kent Williamson

Straight Talk host Andri Hakes talks with Kent Williamson, founder of Charlottesville-based Paladin Pictures and Paladin Media Group about his latest picture. Stained Glass Rainbows, directed by Williamson, explores all facets of the gay/Christian divide which has become so prominent in our culture, and seems to be making an effort to bridge the gap. This film includes gay rights activists, conservative theology, gay christian rockers, Westboro Baptist Church, and even a little taste of home.

Andri Hakes is a Charlottesville based lawyer with the legal firm of Tucker Griffin Barnes P.C.

Straight Talk is heard on WPVC 94.7 Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in working with the station.

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General Assembly Legislative Report

From left to right, Creigh Deeds, Steve Landes and David Toscano speaking at the Senior Center in Charlottesville.

Area legislators report on the 2016 Session of the Virginia General Assembly. This was a session that included some inter-party cooperation but also the most vetoes in almost 20 years, and a post-session executive order that has spurred calls for a special session and led to a more adversarial relationship between Democratic Governor McAuliffe and the Republican General Assembly majority than perhaps ever before.

Senator Creigh Deeds (D) represents the 25th Senate District which includes the cities of Buena Vista, Charlottesville, Covington, and Lexington, and the counties of Albemarle (part), Alleghany, Bath, Highland, Nelson, and Rockbridge.

Delegate Steve Landes (R) represents the 25th House of Delegates District which includes portions of Albemarle, Augusta, and Rockingham Counties.

Delegate David Toscano (D) represents the 57th House of Delegates District which includes Charlottesville and part of Albemarle County.

The three spoke at the Wednesday May 11, 2016 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at the Senior Center in Charlottesville. Following the presentation, questions were taken from the audience. The program was moderated by SSV board member Terry Cooper.

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Wake-Up Call: Lee Channing

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with local psychic and intuitive analyst Lee Channing about careers, relationships and health and about the energy of Spring and how different colors affect different parts of your body.

The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Home Grown: Chicken Bank Collective and Mama Tried

Home Grown hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Zap McConnell and Cinthia Perez Navvaro from the Chicken Bank Collective about their 2016 spring residency and the various exciting dance events they have in store for us, and, Charlie Pastorfield, Susan Munson, and Stuart Holme from Mama Tried talk about their upcoming CD.

Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Inside Charlottesville: Coy Barefoot Returns to CPN

Coy Barefoot

Local historian and broadcaster Coy Barefoot returns to CPN this week with the latest incarnation of his program Inside Charlottesville. Long time CPN listeners will remember Coy’s show Charlottesville-Right Now which aired here for many years. CPN will offer selected segments from the program in the weeks and months to come.

In his opening remarks from the program’s premiere on WPVC 94.7, Coy talks about his goals for the program and offers some intimate insights into his own life. The program originally aired on WPVC 94.7 on May 2, 2016.

Inside Charlottesville is heard on WPVC 94.7 Monday afternoons from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Wake-Up Call: 2016 Jefferson Muzzle Awards

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Clay Hansen, Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression about the center’s 2016 and 25th annual Jefferson Muzzle Awards. The theme for this year’s awards is “Awarding American Campuses a Failing Grade” and focuses on university campus censorship.

Topics include: Censorship of students, censorship by students, efforts to limit press access on campus, threats to academic freedom and censorship of outside speakers.

The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Home Grown: The Great American Trailer Park Musical and Lady Stardust

Home Grown hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Charlotte Drummond and Wendy Novicoff from Four County Players about 4CP’s interesting upcoming show, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and, local music star Lauren Hoffman talks about her part in the super group, Lady Stardust, and their appearance at the Anteroom’s May the Fourth Be With You: The Fourth Awakens musical showcase.

Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Straight Talk: Governor McAuliffe’s Executive Order on Voter Rights

DeShon Langston (left) and Anne Posey Hemenway

Straight Talk host Andri Hakes talks with newly minted Charlottesville Voter, DeShon Langston, and President of the City of Charlottesville Board of Elections, Anne Posey Hemenway, about Governor McAuliffe’s April 22, 2016 Executive Order which restored voting rights to over 200,000 Virginians and what it means to the people of Virginia. It’s not just about voting, either.

Andri Hakes is a Charlottesville based lawyer with the legal firm of Tucker Griffin Barnes P.C.

Straight Talk is heard on WPVC 94.7 Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in working with the station.

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Jefferson’s Legacies: Neoclassical Legacy: Jefferson & Architecture

Travis McDonald speaking at the Senior Center in Charlottesville.

On March 31, 2016, Travis McDonald presented the fourth and final part of our Thursday series entitled Jefferson’s Legacies.

Travis McDonald is an architectural historian who has directed the restoration of Thomas Jefferson’s villa retreat Poplar Forest since 1989. The restoration has been acknowledged as one of the most authentic such projects in the United States. Mr. McDonald has written and lectured extensively on Jefferson, Poplar Forest and early Virginia architecture. He formally worked for the chief historical architect of the National Park Service for the Colonial Williamsburg foundation and has directed museum restorations in Virginia for more than thirty years. Travis received his graduate degree in architectural history from the University of Virginia School of Architecture. In 2011, he was awarded the highest award, The Architecture Medal for Virginia Service by the Virginia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for his work on Poplar Forest.

Mr. McDonald serves on many historic preservation advisory boards including that for Thomas Jefferson’s buildings at the University of Virginia.

The lecture series was organized by award-winning historian and Charlottesville-based author, lecturer, and cartographer Rick Britton in conjunction with the Senior Center in Charlottesville.

Click here to listen to all four parts of this series.

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Wake-Up Call: Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless

Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with Kaki Dimock about the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. Topics include trends in the number of homeless people in Charlottesville, the use of anti-homeless legislation, the status of the lawsuit of Homeless begging on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall and panhandlers at traffic intersections.

The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Home Grown: Charlottesville WriterHouse

Home Grown hosts Clinton Johnston and Leslie M. Scott Jones talk to Sibley Johns, director of the Charlottesville WriterHouse and Kara West, the winner of their most recent poetry contest.

Home Grown is heard on WPVC 94.7 Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in volunteering.

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Straight Talk: The Trans Health Alliance

Afton Bradley (left) and Dr. Nancy McLaren.

Straight Talk host Andri Hakes talks with Afton Bradley, Trans Health Services Program Manager at the Fan Free Clinic in Richmond, and Dr. Nancy McLaren, Medical Director of the Teen and Young Adult Health Center at UVA about trans healthcare issues.

Andri Hakes is a Charlottesville based lawyer with the legal firm of Tucker Griffin Barnes P.C.

Straight Talk is heard on WPVC 94.7 Saturday mornings at 10:00 a.m.The station is looking for volunteers. Apply here if you are interested in working with the station.