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Tonight, the Big Blue Door Jam will hold its first ever Big Blue Door Slam, at which previous winners of the storytelling event will try to win the annual prize. The story you about to hear was told by Ray Nedzel. The theme was Unnecessary Suffering. Be warned that this podcast contains mature themes.
This Thursday, the Big Blue Door Jam will hold its first ever Big Blue Door Slam, at which previous winners of the storytelling event will try to win the annual prize. Here, one of the participants, Miller Murray Susen, shares a story inspired by the theme of families. This story was performed in December of 2012.
This Thursday, Big Blue Door will host the first annual Big Blue Door Slam at the Black Moto Saloon. The event features winners of previous story-telling events.
This Thursday, Big Blue Door will host the first annual Big Blue Door Slam at the Black Moto Saloon. The event features winners of previous story-telling events. The October 2012 winner is Tom Clay, who told a story related to the theme Ghosts.
On the February 17 Wake Up Call host Rick Moore talks with Becky Weybright, the executive director of the Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA). Along with Becky are Amanda Huskin, a SARA volunteer, and Mary McGregor, an intern at SARA. The three women discuss with Rick what the center provides for the community, current legislature surrounding sexual assault, and the social and cultural aspects surrounding the act of assault.
The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the United States, or did it? In this podcast, Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas A. Blackmon talks about what really happened during reconstruction.
Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re- Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, chair of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center Forum program, and a contributing editor at the Washington Post. Mr. Blackmon’s book was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book also received many additional awards and citations and was a New York Times best seller. Mr. Blackmon is also co-executive producer of a documentary film based on the book which was broadcast on PBS last year. The documentary will be rebroadcast on PBS on February 22, 2013.
Until 2011 he was the longtime chief of The Wall Street Journal’s Atlanta bureau and the paper’s Senior National Correspondent. He has written about, or directed coverage of, some of the most pivotal stories in American life, including the election of President Obama, the rise of the tea party movement, the BP oil spill, and the hurricane Katrina disaster. Prior to his work at the WSJ, Blackmon covered race and politics at the Atlanta Journal Constitution for seven years.
Raised in Leland, Mississippi, Blackmon penned his first newspaper story for the Leland Progress at the age of twelve. He received his degree in English from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. At present he is time sharing between Charlottesville and downtown Atlanta where his family makes their home.
Mr. Blackmon spoke at the Wednesday, February 13, 2013 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 vice-president Bob McGrath.
On Sunday, February 10, 2013, poet Mary Sherman Willis and her publisher Katherine McNamara discussed the two distinct publishing formats of an excerpt of her forthcoming book-length poem as “Cave Boy,” an iPad-only digital edition and a hand-made art book edition.
On the February 10 Wake Up Call host Rick Moore talks with Walter Mehring and Cara Marinucci, licensed relationship counselors, to discuss all relationships under the sun–family, friends, intimate, or otherwise–to celebrate Valentine’s Day a little bit early.
On the February 3 Wake Up Call host Rick Moore talks with “Lawrence,” the young man who brought his Cetme 308 into a local Charlottesville Kroger food store, to discuss his motives for the incident, the effects of the incident, and other miscellaneous issues related to the incident.
What services does the Legal Aid Justice Center offer? That’s the topic of the January 27 Wake Up Call. Host Rick Moore talks with Alex Gulotta, the Center’s executive director, and Brenda Castaseda, an attorney with the Center’s Civil Advocacy Program.
On the January 20 Wake Up Call host Rick Moore talks with Jim Duncan of Nest Realty and Matt Hodges of the President Mortgage Group to discuss how underemployment affects the real estate market, expectations for future interest rates, different market trends, and the local real estate market as a whole.
On the January 13 Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with Elizabeth Irvin, Program Director of the Charlottesville Women’s Initiative and Amy Chestnutt, Outreach Coordinator from U.Va.’s Women’s Center‘s Eating Disorders Education Initiative.
Topics discussed include health and wellness, changing issues through the life spectrum, eating disorders, body image, substance abuse, the affordable care act, and where to find support as either a person with a concern or someone who wants to help another.
Each guest shares the mission, services, and new initiatives of her organization.