Category: Wake-Up Call

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, the local theatre group Barhoppers come in to the studio to talk about their current season. Barhoppers is made up of local theatre buffs – some professional actors, others new to the stage, but all with a sense of humor. All their skits take place in bars, which is where these actors perform. This year, the lineup includes everything from issues with speed dating to what a bartender hears on bad day, with scripts from both local and published playwrights.

Their 2007 season begins tonight at Rapture on the Downtown Mall, and continues through the end of March. Entry costs $8, and the shows at Escafe are smoke-free.

Rapture: March 11, 12, 13
Escafe: March 18, 19, 20
Rapture: March 25, 26, 27

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, Jeff Carr and Cara Marinucci, two certified substance abuse professionals, discuss the difference between drug use and drug abuse. As Carr puts it, substance abuse is “when it becomes pretty predictable that you’re gonna have a hangover.” Some of the topics included the symptoms of substance abuse, the physical and emotional effects of dependence, and what could be considered “acceptable use” of a drug. Also, how does alcoholism compare to dependence on a prescribed medication?

Please keep in mind that any opinions discussed during this program do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, management, or board of WNRN or the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. There is no substitute for an individual consultation with your doctor.

This week on WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, it’s the annual Oscars show – where guests discuss the nominees for tonight’s Academy Awards. Two of WNRN’s own 91 Seconds On Film movie reviewers, Ben Nuckols andTom Dumontier, join Adam Greenbaum – the owner of an independent theater in Stanton. Who deserves to win an Academy Award? Who will? Find out by listening to the podcast!

Jeff Cornelius is with the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. The group conducted its annual homeless census in late January. In the five counties surveyed (Fluvanna, Albemarle, Louisa, Greene and Nelson), the TJACH estimates that there are over 200 residents that would be considered homeless.

Cornelius and callers discuss the necessity of and difficulties in counting the homeless. He also refutes some of the stereotypes people associate with those without a permanent residence. “A lot of [the homeless] have full time jobs,” says Cornelius. “They’re just not coming up with enough money to get a full-time apartment in Charlottesville.”

How can we as a community help these people? Listen to the podcast, and tell us what you think!

Lindsay Dorrier and Dennis Rooker are members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. This Sunday, they spoke with Rick Moore of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call about property assessments in the area. With the rapid immigration to the Charlottesville/Albemarle area over the past decade, property values have soared to many times what owners originally bought the property at. They discuss laws regarding assessment appeals and the switch to annual reassessments, what local governments do with the increased revenue, and taxes on land use. Dorrier and Rooker also discuss the new budget, and how the new revenue will affect the services the county provides.

Alexis Zeigler is a local Civil Activist and author, who just released his book, “Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire.” On this January 28th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Zeigler talks with Rick Moore about how social issues are often at the root of economic and political problems.

“While we are daily witness to the powers of progress manifest in the extraordinary mechanical technologies we have developed in the industrial age, we remain woefully unaware of the most basic causes of social change in our society. Our lack of social awareness does not result from the difficulty of understanding social problems, it results from the active repression of such awareness.”

You can order the book from Zeigler’s website, or visit the New Dominion Bookshop on the downtown mall this Wednesday, January 31st for the book release party.

Becky Reid is a grassroots coordinator with the Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge. She joins Rick Moore to talk about her organization’s legislative agenda for the current session of the General Assembly.

HB1914 – would add the HPV vaccine to a list of required vaccinations

HB2035 – would add the HPV vaccine to a list of required vaccinations

HB2221 – would define birth control as being not similar to abortion

HB2842 – would require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraception

Reid says Planned Parenthood will push these bills during the group’s Pro-Choice Lobby Day on January 25th. The group will also be organizing opposition to the following bills:

HB2142 – would make abortions illegal immediately upon a reversal of Roe v. Wade

Richmond Sunlight is a new way to see what’s going on in the General Assembly. Click here to get a list of bills tagged with the phrase “abortion.”
Reid first got involved with this issue while working on a campaign to make sure pharmacists were providing access to emergency contraception.

This year, a group of juniors at Albemarle High School decided to do something about drinking among their peers. So, they formed the group “This Is Us” and travel to local middle schools to talk to 8th graders about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. Some of them joined Rick Moore on the January 7 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.

On this holiday edition of The Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call with Rick Moore, Rick does his annual reading of a traditional Christmas story. Also in the studio was Santa, making phone calls to kids in the area and checking on what they want for Christmas. He was taking phone calls all morning, hearing from children in Central Virginia.