Interview with with Robert L. Self, Monticello’s Architectural Conservator, on the restoration of Monticello’s Dome Room
Wake-Up Call: Offstage Theatre
On the February 19 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore was visited by members of Charlottesville’s Offstage Theatre. The show covers the differences between traditional and ‘offstage’ theatre and features a profile of the group’s upcoming season. The show is filled with small readings from a handful of the groups humor-filled one-act plays. full of talent and laughs.
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City Council candidates speak at Democratic Breakfast
This past Saturday, the two Democratic candidates for the Charlottesville City Council faced questions from their peers at the party’s monthly breakfast. Dave Norris and Julian Taliaferro are the only two declared Democrats vying for the two open council seats. Charlottesville Tomorrow recorded the event, which we present here. Visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog entry on the topic for a run-down.
The Poverty of Education: QCC poverty series concludes
We bring you now the fourth and final in a series of community conversations on poverty sponsored by the Quality Community Council and the University of the Poor. This conversation from February 1 centers around education, and how a poor education or no education can factor into someone’s likelihood to fall into poverty.
The session is introduced by U.Va religious studies professor Corey Walker and speakers include: Deidre Gilmore, Chair of the Public Housing Association of Residents; Professor Robert Q. Berry from the Curry School of Education; Kendra Hamilton of Charlottesville City Council & Black Issues in Higher Education; Emily Dreyfus of Legal Aid’s JustChildren; William Harvey, U.Va’s vice president for diversity and equality; Kenneth Jackson, QCC Volunteer. Janet Legro, Youth Minister of St Paul’s Memorial, served as moderator.
Thanks to CPN Volunteer Sean McCord for recording this event.
Should Commuter Rail Come to Charlottesville?
Should the Virginia Railway Express be extended from Northern Virginia to as far south as Charlottesville? This could be one of the most important transportation questions to be discuss over the next few years, as more and more developments come to Charlottesville and Albemarle County. An overview of the project, which is still just an idea at this point, was given by former City Councilor Meredith Richards at the September meeting of Charlottesville Citizens for Better Rail Alternatives.
Lectures from the U.Va Health Sciences Library
Many lectures from the University of Virginia are available through the U.Va podcast. But individual lecture series are beginning to develop their own specialized podcast feeds as well. One such is the History of the Health Sciences series, produced by the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the University of Virginia School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education Program. The most recent lecture is available here. It’s a talk by Duke University’s Margaret Humphreys about the health of the 180,000 African-Americans who joined the Union Army during the Civil War.
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http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/cmhsl-historical-podcast.xml
Slowpoke’s Jen Sorensen on the Cartoon Crisis
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The outcry among many in the Muslim community over images of the prophet Mohammed continues to smoulder. It isn’t often that a cartoon can prompt such a reaction. Jen Sorensen, the Charlottesville-based creator of Slowpoke Comics, says the biggest negative reaction she got is when an offended reader offered to pay for her retirement. Sean Tubbs recently met with Sorensen at Court Square Tavern for a chat about her work and her take of the cartoon crisis.
WNRN Wakeup Call: Love, Dating, Relationships, Marriage!
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With Valentine’s Day upon us again, Rick Moore and his guests enter into a discussion of love, dating, relationships, and marriage! There’s much mystery to the subject, and no one seems to know who Saint Valentine actually was. Sure, we could look it up on the Internet, but we’d prefer if you left a comment below with your best guess.
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VPTC: Business/Technology Leaders Discuss Economic Development
More than 100 local business and technology leaders gathered February 7 as the Virginia Piedmont Technology Council and the Thomas Jefferson Economic Development Partnership co-hosted “Toward a Common Vision: A Call to Action”, the third in a series of annual conversations about issues shaping our region’s economic development. This year, as for the past two years, the event was sponsored by Wachovia. The luncheon was held as part of the VPTC Speaker Series at the Omni Hotel. Former VPTC Chair Bryan Wright and partner in the law firm Williams Mullen served as moderator.
The speakers are: Dr. Catherine Renault, program manager for technology-based economic development with RTI Tech Ventures in Research Triangle Park; Jeff Anderson, executive director of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership; Robert De Mauri, executive director of TJPED.
Rundown of event:
00:00 – 01:23 – Opening comments from VPTC Director Gail Milligan
01:23 – 02:54 – Comments from Scheline Moore of Wachovia
02:54 – 09:53 – Comments from moderator Bryan Wright of Williams Mullen
09:53 – 12:13 – Bryan Wright introduces the speakers
12:13 – 32:53 – Catherine Renault of RTI International
32:53 – 35:38 – Introduction of Jeff Anderson by Bryan Wright
35:38 – 45:57 – Jeff Anderson of the VEDP
45:58 – 47:23 – Introduction of Robert De Mauri by Bryan Wright
47:23 – 58:40 – Robert De Mauri of TJPED
58:40 – 1:17:11 – Question and Answer session
1:17:11 – 1:18:02 – Closing comments from Gail Milligan
The Poverty of Underemployment: QCC Poverty Series Continues
In the third of four conversations on the “The Persistence of Poverty”, a series of speakers address the poverty of underemployment. This event was held on January 31 at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church. Speakers include Meredith Richards, Jan Cornell of the U.Va Staff Union, Labor History Professor Claudrina Harold of the University of Virginia, Westhaven resident Theresa Arabie and Joe Szakos of the Virginia Organizing Project. The program is moderated by Neil Halvorson-Taylor of the Quality Community Council. Thanks to CPN Volunteer Sean McCord for recording this event.
Wake-Up Call: Paul Cantor on Pop Culture
As movies and television have aged, become older mediums, they also become more respected by academics and journalists. Among those who study pop culture is Paul Cantor, professor of English at the University of Virginia. He’s the author of Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, a comparison of three hit shows from different decades. How is Gilligan’s Island representative of Americans in the 60’s? How do The Simpsons show different cultures in the small town of Springfield? Were you aware that The X-Files displayed the importance of the internet well before it became a part of everyday life? Rick Moore talks with Cantor in the February 5 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.
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Monticello: Preserving America’s Historic Plants
One of the great things about podcasting here in Charlottesville is the wide variety of podcasts available. Monticello has also gotten in the game, and has sponsored Sean Tubbs to produce a series of reports about various aspects of our most celebrated tourist attraction, Jefferson’s mountain-top home. Most recently Sean visited the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants, a unique program designed to preserve our nation’s heritage plants.