Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Both children and adults that came for the tree lighting at the Shops at Stonefield were in for a surprise on the night of Nov. 27 when a special interruption occurred. When the crowd got to the end of the countdown for the lighting of the tree, the lights simply did not turn on. All […]
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Art and imagination come into play in the art 121 Intro to Drawing class. Next semester there are three classes, two of which are online. The only in-person class in the spring is led by the Assistant Professor of art Aaron Miller. In this art class, people learn basic drawing skills to bring the paper […]
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Gun sales increased rapidly in 2020 with an unprecedented amount of new gun owners walking out of stores with firearms, many of them with no prior experience handling or operating any sort of firearm. I met with a local firearms instructor to discuss how she has been working to counteract this trend. We met at […]
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Screens glow throughout Decades Arcade as people play pinball, Mrs. Pacman, and many other games. Customers talk as they go from game to game. After the entry fee of $12, all games are free to play. There are myriad games. People can compete against each other in Mrs. Pacman as she munches her way across […]
Continue ReadingMiller’s Downtown, like much of Charlottesville, has the feel of an old college town trying to stay true to its roots but also appealing to the college students who reside in the city for half the year and their parents who come to visit them. Miller’s is on the western most part of the Downtown […]
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On the windy and star-filled night of Oct. 26, Speakers from UVA and guests came to talk about astronomy and play trivia games in an event called Astronomy on Tap. The event took place at the Champion Grill location in Stonefield. With the event being close to Halloween, costumes were encouraged; The host, Matthew Pryal, […]
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On Oct. 22, Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited sci-fi film Dune was released in theaters and on HBO Max. With an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård and Javier Bardem, Dune follows the struggles of the noble house Atreides in the year 10191. Led by Duke Leto Atreides, his concubine Jessica, […]
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Instead of being a sequel that attempts to live on a grander scale, Venom: Let There Be Carnage focuses on the strengths of the previous film in order to make a more enjoyable movie-watching experience. While struggling to coexist with his symbiotic companion known as Venom (Tom Hardy), Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) attempts to reconcile […]
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The Victory Hall Players, a local acting troupe based in Scottsville, will bring the classic A Christmas Carol play, adapted for the stage by Joe Landry, into a new light. They take the old tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his humbugging ways and tell it through the lens of a live 1940’s radio broadcast full […]
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As college students work towards taking classes to fulfill diploma requirements for their respective majors, many classes are tailored to specific degrees. With ECO 202, however, this is not the case. Not only does this economics course help students, principally adults, in understanding the financial world that surrounds them, but it also provides crucial business […]
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