Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
On Sept. 24, this fall’s PVCC One Book Program kicked off their set of events planned for the season by inviting students, faculty and staff to the Main Building Event Space from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to give out free copies of this year’s book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela […]
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On Friday Sept. 20, a diverse crowd ranging from high schoolers to older adults gathered inside the north and south galleries of the V. Earl Dickinson Building for the gallery exhibition opening reception of the Those Who Teach Can art gallery. The gallery features a diverse collection of artwork from art educators at PVCC and […]
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With PVCC’s Woodrow W. Bolick Advanced Technology and Student Success Center officially opening on Sept. 17, the fast-food style cafeteria, The Panther Grill, came with it. I had the opportunity to try some of the food served there, and I only have one general statement to make about it: what the Panther Grill lacks in […]
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Charlottesville, Virginia, may not seem like the hub of football or football fans, but the students of Charlottesville high school are here to prove this notion wrong. If one were to walk past the Charlottesville high school football fields at around 7 p.m. on a Friday night, they would see dozens of students flooding through […]
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On Monday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m., magician Peter Monticup visited the PVCC main building event space to host his magic show, Monticup is Magic. During his show, Monticup showed off some of his magic tricks, engaged the audience with jokes and stories, and even brought volunteers on stage to assist with the magic. For […]
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The movie adaptation of the novel Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, is about a young girl named Tally Youngblood (Joey King). The story is set in a future where humans have destroyed the earth with an overuse of fossil fuels. But scientists and the government decided that the real problem was human nature, our differences causing […]
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The University of Virginia’s own Sound Justice Lab (SJL) recently held an event called Technologies of Silence, which seeks to explore the “stories, voices and experiences that the law does not hear, cannot hear, and will not hear,” according to the SJL’s co-director. The final of the eight events that took place over two days […]
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Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, and Winona Ryder reprise their popular roles in the sequel to the 1988 classic, Beetlejuice. The movie is set 30 years after the events of the original movie have taken place and sees Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, navigating life as a professional medium with looming visions of her former foe. […]
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Deadpool and Wolverine is the final film in the Deadpool trilogy. As far as franchise finales go, I have seen far worse, though that doesn’t mean this film is without its faults. My primary complaint coming out of this film is the way in which the film almost expects you to have already seen previous […]
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Frank Sinatra played the drums? The Dan Barrale trio answered this question as they held a performance at WTJU Friday, Sept. 13. From Sinatra tunes to classic blues, the trio (now a quintet) explored a wide range of genres. The “trio” invited several guests (Michael […]
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