Author: David McNair
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John D’earth: “Drums are the soul of Jazz music”
I’m helping to promote a fundraising event featuring legendary trumpet player John D’earth and the UVA Jazz Ensemble and I had a chance to interview D’earth about the event for this promo video I created.
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Washington Post investigates disappearance of The Hook website – and website restored!
A story published in the Washington Post[“A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?”], along with efforts by my Hook colleagues to draw attention to the article, appears to have prompted a mysterious benefactor to restore The Hook website. Washington Post reporter Paul Fahri tells The DTM that he received an…
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The Sewanee Review: 2021 Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest Winners
Sewanee Review – This past July, the Sewanee Review held its fourth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction contest. This year we received over one-thousand submissions. Today we are pleased to announce the winners. Judge Brandon Taylor selected Allen Bratton’s short story “Philippa” as the winner for the fiction contest. Taylor calls it “a strange, dark…
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A Mental Maze: what we can learn from Tarron Richardson’s brief time as city manager
“It is hard for me to see this as an issue that is so important that his disagreement with Council on this would be a cause for termination or a condition of his continued employment. If it doesn’t rise to that level, we have to let him [Richardson] do his job, even if it means…
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Police vs. Civilians: What will it take to establish an effective Police Civilian Review Board?
In 2008, when then Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo provided his recommendations for a proposed Police Civilian Review Panel to City Council, he used an argument that those pushing for a strong CRB in Charlottesville, given the current climate, would have likely found laughable. “Charlottesville is fortunate to have a professional, well trained police department…
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Title IX Remix: will new rules on sexual harassment & assault investigations serve justice?
Eight months ago I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the US Department of Education for information about a Title IX investigation that was opened at the University of Virginia on April 19, 2019, thinking it might provide information and insight about a process often shrouded in secrecy. Last week, I received…
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Slave Block: historical marker thief disrupts the narrative in Charlottesville
We naturally want what happens in the world [and in our community] to reinforce our notion of reality, to serve as examples of the things we believe in, but the truth, as Oscar Wilde observed, is rarely pure and never simple. When the historical marker for the slave auction block in Court Square went missing…
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Older Americans Month prompts new look at ‘age-friendly initiative’ for community
Daily Progress – When it comes to advocating for government planning initiatives and policies that benefit older people, advocates sometimes find it hard to get the public to push decision makers to act. “We tend to dismiss people as they age,” said Natalie Snider, a senior program assistant with AARP Virginia, “… so government doesn’t…
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Become a DTM Patreon — Unlock the Power of Truly Independent Local News
“Good stuff from what seems to be the best news source in Charlottesville.” — Rick Tetzeli, executive editor, Fast Company Magazine. “I think we need this. I see very little in-depth coverage from anywhere else.” — DTM follower Since 2012, The DTM has survived on a small initial fundraising campaign and the efforts and resources…
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Why Charlottesville? How a Facebook comment, an unknown blogger, and some old tweets inflamed a debate about race and monuments
On October 4 last year the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia hosted an event featuring Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza, for which local best-selling author John Grisham was the emcee. The event, “Rooting Out Injustice: Poverty, Race and the Role of Legal Aid,” was a popular, sold out affair and Garza got the kind…
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