Mojo at the Gateway

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The November Mojo Saturday Night is ready to groove with some real deep blues on Saturday, Nov. 19th. Fourteen-year-old Emma Leigh will perform her first blues show accompanied by John Hoy and some of the Li’l Bill Band. Barb Martin will bring her soulful blues to the stage and The Li’l Bill Band returns “post-graduation” from…

UVa. rallies to knock off Winthrop

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Senior forward Mike Scott had game-high totals of 18 points and eight rebounds, and junior guard Jontel Evans scored a career-high 17 points to lead Virginia to a 69-48 victory over Winthrop on Tuesday night (Nov. 15) at John Paul Jones Arena. Virginia established a program record by making all 19 of its free throw…

Press Conference: Mike London

Chris Graham

QUESTION:  Can you talk a little bit about the opportunity that major collegiate athletics and a game like this affords for raising awareness of causes and diseases like this? COACH LONDON:  When you have an opportunity that’s presented with a platform such as this, with a guy like Coach Fisher—a well-respected coach in college football…

WVPT honors winner in online contest

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WVPT congratulates Kevin Camden of Charlottesville as the winner of its Fender Telecaster electric guitar giveaway. Kevin Camden, an IT specialist at the University of Virginia, was automatically entered in the guitar drawing after he signed up as a contestant in TALENTWAR$, the station’s first online video talent contest and fundraiser. TALENTWAR$, offering $6,000 in…

UVa. women win at Providence

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Virginia earned a 55-38 victory at Big East foe Providence Monday night (Nov. 14). The Cavaliers improved to 2-0 on the young season and were led by junior Simone Egwu (12 points) and sophomore Jazmin Pitts (10 points, eight rebounds). “It’s a road game and we talked about being road warriors,” UVa head coach Joanne…

Supreme Court to hear challenge to health-care reform

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The United States Supreme Court said today that it will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the health-care reform law passed by Congress in 2010. Virginia filed one of the suits that made their way up the federal system with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Gov. Bob…

FMS loses notable alum

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C. Phillip Barger, 83, FMS ’45 and a former trustee and executive committee member of the Fishburne-Hudgins Educational Foundation, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, in Charlottesville, Virginia.  One of the school’s most loyal alumni, he was a charter member of the Colonel Young Brigade and with his son-in-law John Conrad had donated the…

Art for Gifts opens Friday

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The Staunton Augusta Art Center tips off its annual Art for Gifts exhibition and sale with an opening reception on Friday, Nov. 18, from 5-8 p.m. Art for Gifts features affordable, unique gifts of art and fine craft by more than 70 Virginia artists, many participating for the first time. The exhibition and sale runs…