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On WINA’s Best Seat, Jed interviews Virginia basketball coach Dave Leitao. Leitao disusses the state of his team and the prospect of returning to game action for the first time after a 12-day final exams break. The Cavs take to the floor against Hampton today at 2:00 PM.
Jesse Winchester is described on the Gravity Lounge’s website as the “music world’s most prominent Vietnam War draft-evader.” Winchester moved to Montreal in the late 60’s to protest the war, which prevented him from touring to support his music. But he continued writing and releasing music, and now he’s appearing at the Gravity Lounge tonight (December 15).
Check out all of WNRN’s artist interviews on their YouTube page.
On the December 13 edition of WINA’s Best Seat in the House, Jed took up the issue of mid-year enrollment with FUMA Postgraduate Football Coach John Shuman. Jed and Shuman discussed UVA’s policy and whether Shuman thinks the Cavaliers are missing out on quality
athletes because of the refusal to offer mid-year enrollment.
The Virginia Department of Health is beginning a public awareness campaign to to educate people and organizations on what to do if a pandemic flu should come to the United States. Sean Tubbs covered a press conference today for WVTF Public Radio, and prepares this podcast of the press conference. The panel consisted of Lilian Peake of the Thomas Jefferson Health District, Albemarle County Chief Executive Bob Turner, Assistant Charlottesville City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney, and Dr. James Turner of the U.Va Student Health Department.
 Cast of Ain’t Misbehavin, Dec 1 – 23 at Live Arts (Photo: Jack Looney/CVILLE Weekly) |
Ain’t Misbehavin’ is still jumping and jiving at Live Arts through December 23rd. The revue presents the music of Fats Waller on the Downstage Theater. And, CPN is giving away a pair of tickets. All you have to do is e-mail us atG, tickets@cvillepodcast.com with your contact info. We’ll hold a drawing this Thursday.
To whet your appetite, take a listen to this preview of the show, featuring comments director John Owen and cast members Lily Bryant and Ricardo Coleman. There’s even a song!
House prices may be falling across Virginia, but Charlottesville continues to have a shortage of affordable houses. Many service workers have to commute long distances because of high prices. But, at least one new home will be kept at a reasonable cost, thanks to a new partnership between the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors and the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center, in collaboration with Church Hill Homes and the Piedmont Housing Alliance.
I took a tour of the new house, and recorded comments from CAAR’s Dave Phillips, Jeff Gaffney of the CAAR Workforce Housing Fund, and Darah Bonham, the director of CATEC. This nine minute piece features some of what they had to say in their own words.
Andrew Sullivan is the editor of the New Republic who blogs at the Daily Dish. He’s also the author of The Conservative Soul – How We Lost it and How to Get it Back. Sullivan phoned in recently to WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about his work.
Many residents of Free Union are worried that a potential shutdown of a VDOT maintenance facility in their area will drastically slow down the time it takes to have their roads plowed. While VDOT officials say no decisions have been made yet, preliminary plans show Free Union as one of 91 VDOT facilities to be closed as part of a consolidation plan.
This past Friday night, a commmunity meeting was called by Free Union residents to discuss the matter. VDOT officials gave a thirty-minute presentation explaining the plans, and heard comments from Free Union residents opposed to the plan. At times, opposition is heated. Janis Jaquith served as moderator, and Waldo Jaquith recorded the event.
VDOT’s Gary Allen says that no decision has been made. The Daily Progress provides coverage of this issue in a December 2nd article by Jeremy Borden.
Secretary of Natural Resources Preston Bryant joins Coy Barefoot to talk about the importance of cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay.
On the November 30 edition of WINA’s Best Seat in the House, Jed and Joey talk about the announcement that U.Va has decided not to pick up the rolling 5th year option on Al Groh’s contract and how that impacts Groh’s stature and job security.
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“There cannot be the rule of law if there is no freedom of the press,” says Lucie Morillon, who works for the group Reporters Without Borders. She recently spoke with Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss what the organization does.
“Reporters Without Borders is an international press freedom organization, and our mandate is to protect journalists, to get journalists out of jail, to bring to justice people responsible for the murder of journalists,” says Morillon. Journalists who publish stories on corruption are particular targets.
North Korea, Eritrea, and Turkmenistan have the worst records on press freedom, according to Morillan, but the United States ranks 53rd out of 168 countries in terms of press freedom. As one example, she points to the imprisonment of freelance journalist Josh Wolf in California for refusing to reveal the name of a source.
| Cast of Ain’t Misbehavin, Dec 1 – 23 at Live Arts (Photo: Jack Looney/CVILLE Weekly) |
If you walk past the City Center for Contemporary Arts building this weekend, you may not be able to resist the urge to dance. That’s because the music of Fats Waller will be shaking through the walls, as Live Arts begins its run of Ain’t Misbehavin’ on the Downstage Theater. I stopped by during rehearsals to find out more about the play, and spoke with director John Owen and cast members Lily Bryant and Ricardo Coleman.
Find out how you can win a free pair of tickets to the show by listening in to the podcast.
