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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] The economy is in a tatters. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are marching on toward the 100-year mark. Millions lack access to basic health care. But no worries – Arlen Specter has his eyes on the prize. “What is necessary is an objective investigation….
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Column by Jim Bishop Is it irreverent to suggest that the Ten Commandments were not an immediately smashing success – centuries ago as well as today? When Moses came down from Mount Sinai after receiving God’s laws and saw the people preoccupied with hanky-panky, he became so incensed that he threw the stone tablets to…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen So you think those Oscar statuettes are pretty classy-lookin’, huh? Well, from what I hear, they ain’t even real gold – just a hunk of tin that looks like Bette Davis’s Uncle Oscar, sprayed with yellow paint and polished up real good by some flunky Executive Producer…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen If you’re a fan of those Coke commercials featuring cuddly polar bears, “The Golden Compass” will be your holiday pleasure. But if you’re grownup and just too weary to invest in another kid fantasy franchise, you’re liable to walk out like I did, thinking: So what?
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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Column by Jim Bishop Slow down, you’re movin’ too fast, You’ve got to make the morning last … -Harper’s Bizarre (1967) So what’s a tired body to do? I could (should?) be at five different places the evening of Sept. 21: – The message by and award presentation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the James…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, My heart is achin’, for you, Mr. Lee, He’s the handsomest sweetie That you’ll ever see … ” Often, upon encountering Lee Eshleman, I would bop up to him singing lines from the Bobbettes’ 1957 musical ditty, “Mr. Lee.” For a…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Sitting and pondering at length where the moon goes after it slips over the western horizon, suddenly it dawned on me: A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where train stops. On my desk, I have a work station … what more can I…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Alas, the Golden Age of Musicals is long gone. Might as well toss in the Silver Age of Musicals and the Bronze Age of Musicals as well. And the latest big, splashy Broadway musical to be brought to the screen, “Dreamgirls,” is just more proof that if…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham For a brief moment or two after the 2006 midterm elections, it had seemed that the Republican Party was perhaps going off its ideological moorings. The talk was reaching the level of near-clamor regarding how the GOP was going to have to consider retreating from the right-wing conservative…
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