Category: People
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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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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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Retreads prove you’re never too old to love to play ball
Back in the 1990s, I played on an older-than-30 baseball league in Charlottesville. I’d played in high school and for a brief time in college, and I was amazed by how much I still loved the game and wanted to compete. I was a pitcher — a hard-throwing right-hander with a decent curve — but […]
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A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’
As a young reporter for the Chicago Tribune in the months following 9/11, Will Potter was already growing weary of reporting on cops, crime, and shootings in the city. On a whim during some time off, he decided to help a group of activists hand out leaflets opposing animal testing. “It wasn’t what journalists usually […]
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Just say know: Tim Wilson wants to change the world– one story at a time
UVA psych professor Timothy Wilson’s book Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change begins with a horror story. A police officer in Florida is the first to arrive at a house engulfed in flames. There are screams for help coming from the structure, and through a window the officer sees a trapped man. The […]
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Life behind bars: it’s more than just pouring drinks
Everyone knows the story of Charlottesville’s most famous bartender, you know, that musician guy who worked at Miller’s before becoming a world renowned rock star… what’s his name? Well, many other local bartenders have attracted their own, albeit smaller, fan base. Indeed, while lots of factors go into creating a bar’s atmosphere– lighting, decor, and […]
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The bully pulpit: Documentary explores VQR tragedy
Last summer, the tragic suicide of Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey, who made a 911 call reporting his own shooting down by the Coal Tower on former UVA president John Casteen’s last official day in office, made national headlines, including a segment on the Today show, which revealed a troubled office environment at […]
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Submission guidelines: Will the fallen VQR rise again?
For 86 years the Virginia Quarterly Review, UVA’s award-winning literary journal, had appeared on bookstore shelves and in mailboxes each season. But that publishing streak was threatened last summer when the magazine’s managing editor, 52-year-old Kevin Morrissey, took his own life. In a burst of violence and grief, the reputation of one of the nation’s […]
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Conflicting tales: The unfolding tragedy at the VQR
Nearly three months after Virginia Quarterly Review managing editor Kevin Morrissey took his own life, stories are still being penned about what the tragedy revealed about the troubled inner workings of the award-winning magazine: charges of favoritism, spiraling spending, poisonous tensions between staff members, and the hot-button suggestion that the magazine’s editor, Ted Genoways, bullied […]
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Tale of Woe: The death of the VQR’s Kevin Morrissey
On John Casteen’s last official day in office as the president of the University of Virginia, a tragic story, one fit for the pages of the award-winning literary journal that he nurtured, began to unfold. That Friday, July 30, the managing editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, 52-year-old Kevin Morrissey, took his own life. Since […]
David McNair 