Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Every week is a new theme: “What do you want to do, but society won’t let you?” Or, “What is your most true/absurd/amazing observation?” Or perhaps, “What is Happiness?” Once the prompt is announced, partygoers write down an anonymous reply and put their answers into a basket. Silence then falls as event organizer Brian Wimer […]
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On September 11, students gathered at the Dickinson building in the black box to share and express their feelings and expressions into a mic; wanting to be understood and felt, tasting and feeling their words and stories, they reached out to the few audience members who remained in the Dickinson building, ready and eager to […]
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Piedmont Virginia Community College is hosting a variety of events inspired by Liz Murray’s memoir Breaking Night. If you have missed the buzz surrounding Murray’s book, then here is a quick run-down: Breaking Night is the true story of a young woman from a broken home. Throughout the story, Murray describes her experiences with her […]
Continue ReadingThinking of seeing a movie? How would you like it if that movie were free? Movies have been becoming more and more expensive to see in theater; fortunately, PVCC’s Student Art Club sponsors Free Movie Friday in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. Watch in comfort and on a big screen in the Main Stage Theatre. […]
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Clear blue skies, a soft breeze, and the leaves at different transient periods served the perfect backdrop for the Cville Sabroso Spanish Festival that took place September 20 at the Mcguffey Art Center. Immediately taking over my senses was the chanting, deep throb of beating drums, and the tantalizing smells of fresh corn tortillas and […]
Continue ReadingChapped and soot encrusted youthful faces, with eyes that tell stories of innocence lost, look out at silent nights disturbed by the rough and rugged rambling of trains chugging along the tracks to a destination far away. Emptied bottles lie abandoned by the tracks, an eerie reminder that someone was once here. To many, this […]
Continue ReadingNestled in the flourishing row of businesses located along Charlottesville’s West Main Street sits the Albemarle Baking Company. The aroma of artisan-baked goods emanates from this community staple, located at 418 West Main Street. The bakery lies alongside eleven locally owned and operated specialty stores known as the Main Street Market. The Main Street location […]
Continue ReadingNearly two hundred years ago the first American Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, established the University of Virginia in his beloved town of Charlottesville. It is fitting, then, that John Kerry, the recently appointed Secretary of State, chose to deliver his first major policy speech at this historic university on Wed., Feb. 20. But, while […]
Continue ReadingMany politicians have used the elementary school shooting tragedy in Newton, Connecticut as a springboard for the campaign against violent video games. President Obama has provided the Center for Disease Control (CDC) with $10 million to conduct research about the correlation between virtual and real-life violence. West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller plans to resubmit his […]
Continue ReadingPiedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) is adding new classes to the Spring 2013 Workforce Services class schedule starting in January in the new state-of-the-art teaching kitchen at the Jefferson Center. The new culinary classes explore a variety of topics from making chocolates and pastries to Mediterannean and Asian Cuisine. PVCC’s Workforce Services had partnered up […]
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