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I started smoking cigars a few weeks after my 18th birthday. At first I did not fully appreciate the wide range of flavors that cigars brought; at the time what I was really seeking was the nicotine. However, in the 3 years since, I have developed more of a palate as well as a taste […]
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Juneteenth, a national holiday that celebrates the complete enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in former slave states, is a celebration that many people know and celebrate, but most are probably not familiar with Charlottesville’s own emancipation celebration, Liberation and Freedom Day. Liberation and Freedom Day is a city holiday on March 3 which celebrates the […]
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“Okay, well the goal this semester is to not have to mop up any real blood,” said PVCC student playwright and director Tori Freimuth to members of her cast, as she leaned over a table filling vials with fake blood, “At least the fake blood smells nicer.” It was Thursday, March 31, and members of […]
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Like anything else to have come out of the recent Sony standalone movies, Morbius was bad. It was not bad in a visually appealing and entertaining way like Venom, or in a “Look at this dumpster fire” kind of way that might cultivate a cult following like Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, but in a “Holy […]
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On April 15, PVCC students, faculty, staff, and members of the wider community gathered together to enjoy chocolate and art in the Dickinson building art gallery for the first time since the annual Chocolate Chowdown’s two year hiatus. PVCC’s Art Gallery was adorned with over 85 pieces of student art ranging in medium from acrylic […]
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With PVCC finalist interviews winding down, it was time for students to meet the third presidential candidate, Dr. Jean Runyon. The student forum was held on Monday, April 11, at noon in the Bolick Student Center. All were welcome, and refreshments and pizza were provided for those who attended the event. Runyon earned her bachelor’s […]
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When I first started attending classes at PVCC in 2019, I was originally part of the Engineering program, so a class like ENG 121 – Introduction to Journalism would not have been something on my radar. After the COVID-19 lockdown, I began reconsidering my career and degree options and decided to switch my major to […]
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Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle once said, “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” But history, and more specifically women’s history, “isn’t about the female greats of American history in a female version of Carlyle’s history of great men. It’s about ordinary women and women activists and their multifarious, collective, organized […]
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In the midst of one of the “Top 5 worst winter storms” according to Dominion Energy, former Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer took to Twitter and then the TIME magazine OP-ED section to complain about snow days, and to call out his Twitter critics directly.
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