RESIDENT BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
The Community Partnership for Improved Long-Term Care and the Cedars Nursing Home are starting a new pilot program. Volunteers, either working independently or in teams, will visit on a regular basis with a nursing home resident at the Cedars in Charlottesville, Virginia. After establishing a personal relationship with the resident, the [...]
Moody, powerful 'Hamlet' stalks Blackfriars | newsleader.com | The News Leader
'But "Hamlet" as produced by the American Shakespeare Center and currently appearing at the Blackfriars Playhouse? Ah, that's fresh ground. If you're looking for a couple of hours of engrossing story, strong overall performances, creative staging and one hell of a good title character, this [...]
Hope you enjoy this video from Marijean and CBS-19.
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Roving reporter Marijean reports:
Charlottesville Blog of the Week on CBS-19
Tonight on WCAV CBS-19, I’ll be talking about Elizabeth McCullough’s C’ville Words blog. You can tune in and watch it live, using that box in your living room, or watch it streaming online around 6:30pm Eastern.
THIS JUST IN: according to staff at the Newsplex, we [...]
<![CDATA[Roving reporter Marijean reports:
Charlottesville Blog of the Week on CBS-19
Tonight on WCAV CBS-19, I’ll be talking about Elizabeth McCullough’s C’ville Words blog. You can tune in and watch it live, using that box in your living room, or watch it streaming online around 6:30pm Eastern.
THIS JUST IN: according to staff at the Newsplex, we [...]
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Richard Eoin Nash - The Blog: Amazonfail: A straight white male publisher on glitches and ham-fisted errors
"Amazon breached that social contract. The breach was no less problematic if it wasn’t entirely intentional.... Because in a world where whiteness and straightness are “norms” and males benefit from our patriarchial history, it is always the GLBTQ books, [...]
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'Gay writing' falls foul of Amazon sales ranking system | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Best summary of the ongoing glitch-a-thon I've seen so far:
"Although the move does not mean the affected books are no longer on sale, it does block them from being able to access some of the site's most powerful areas – potentially affecting sales [...]
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50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory - Psdtuts+
50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
--Picked this up via Twitter.
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<![CDATA[Where better to relive the 2009 Festival of the Book than on BookTV?
VABook! on BookTV: April 11-12
This weekend, C-SPAN2's BookTV will feature hours of programs and interviews with authors from the 2009 Virginia Festival of the Book. Tune in for the afternoon or evening, from midday to midnight, to catch dozens of the programs you [...]
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Still Life with Book Maven: The Curious Case of the Flippant Release Letter, Part Two
"A few weeks ago, I attended the annual National Book Critics Circle Annual Meeting and Awards, and I was astonished how little many print-based critics knew about blogs and social media and how hostile many of them were to the idea [...]