You ought to be in pictures

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham I spent a few minutes in the director’s chair during the production on “Familiar Strangers,” a feature film produced by the Charlottesville-based Cavalier Films that is slated for release next year. So you can add me to the long list of people who played a role in the making of the…

Sime releases campaign schedule

Chris Graham

Item by Chris Graham 24th Senate District Libertarian Party nominee Arin Sime has released his campaign schedule for the weeks of Oct. 8 and Oct. 15. Oct. 8: Meeting with the editorial board of The News Leader, 2 p.m.; Fraternal Order of Police Candidate Forum, Michie Tavern Lane, Albemarle County, 7 p.m. Oct. 9: PureWater…

Justice, weight-conscious, global-warming alarmists, conventional wisdom

Chris Graham

Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham LOSER: Everybody Did you hear about the case involving a woman in Charlottesville who was charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, was taken before a grand jury, was not indicted, and then was not released until her attorneys found out about the snafu a month later? Yeah…

Tee it up

Contributors

Story by Chris Graham Golf can teach life lessons – and the younger you start, the more you can learn. Students in grades K-8 in Charlottesville city schools will be able to find that out for themselves. The city school system is participating in The First Tee National School Program. The Charlottesville-based SNL Financial is…

Friedearman

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Global warming … sucks. “Hey, man, how was the beach?” my friend Eli asked me when he saw me on Sunday. I looked like a lobster after the boiling water, for the record. And I hadn’t been to the beach – or anywhere near it. “Just went to…

‘In the Valley of Elah’

Carl Larsen

Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen I’m not sure why the critics are so violently split about filmmaker Paul Haggis, or even why it matters. Some think he’s great, some think he’s awful, bit after seeing his latest film, “In the Valley of Elah,” I’m pretty sure that I’m in the right camp….