Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
The 28th VA Film Festival will be consuming movie lovers of the Charlottesville area from Nov. 5 to Nov. 8. The showcase will feature over 20 new films that will include documentaries, family movies, independent films, and many films about political and cultural change. Tickets are on sale now and have been since Oct. 2. […]
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Dennis Banks came to PVCC on Oct. 26 to speak on his life and actions with the American Indian Movement. Topics ranged from homesteading to the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee to life at compulsory boarding schools for Native Americans. While waiting for Banks to arrive, local speakers provided stories, speeches and a Q&A for […]
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Fox’s Café sits at the corner of 403 Avon Street and Levy Avenue in Belmont. It is less than two miles from campus. For years, I drove past it without ever giving it any thought. Last spring, I witnessed an older couple drive into Fox’s empty parking lot and arduously disembark. Midway through the process, […]
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Krystal Green is the driving force behind PVCC’s new Pharmacy Technician program: she is the program’s director and an associate professor who teaches many of its courses. “There are so many different avenues in the Pharmacy Technician field,” Green exclaims. She would know; she has tried many of them herself. After receiving a Bachelor of […]
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As the lights came on in Dickinson Theater and the credits began to roll, Free Movie Friday audience members turned to each other, eager to discuss the last hour and a half. “Jason Segel was really impressive,” noted one moviegoer. “I hope he gets nominated for an award.” “[The movie’s] thoughts on fame apply to […]
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