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Brad Savage of the Corner interviews Teri Kent of Better World Betty and Bruce Edmonds of the McIntire Recycling Center every other Friday on matters of sustainability and how people can do their part to go green. On the June 19, 2009 edition: Betty and Bruce tell us how much money can be saved by switching to compact flourescent light bulbs.
Also, comments about the announcement this week that Dominion Power is installing a “smart grid” in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
When we started the Charlottesville Podcasting Network back in 2005, one of the ideas was to do as many interviews as we could to support bands that were coming into town. Sadly, we’ve only been able to do that on a… very limited fashion. However, last week I was contacted by the members of Jodienda to see if I could help promote their gig at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. I said I wanted to use them as guinea pigs for a new generation of interviews, and so on Sunday morning we spoke via Skype for this brief interview.
Jodienda is playing tonight at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar on June 15th, 2009. Also playing are Your Animal Spirit in the Unreal City and Fluffy Lumbers.
Barry Fritztravalis returns with another series of sound collages interspersed with music and other interesting soundscapes. This program has been on hiatus for several years, but returns with all of it’s glory. The archive for the program has been disassembled for some time, but is now coming back to life with new episodes.
Dayton Haugh is the Chief of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad (CARS), a position he’s held since 1994. He joined Rick Moore on the May 24, 2009 edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call to talk about operating the volunteer organization, which is one of the busiest of its kind in the country. Haugh talks about the challenges of working with more than one jurisdiction, and the CARS’ future as other localities seek EMS billing and other revenue-recovery techniques.
The Piedmont Council of the Arts (PCA) continued its Creative Conversation Series on April 21, 2009 with a discussion between artists, art professionals and local officials about how expand the reach of the arts across all of Charlottesville’s many populations. The goal of the program is to bring artists, organizations, educators, and business and community leaders together to develop strategies for strengthening arts and cultural life in the Charlottesville area.
Previous conversations have dealt with Arts Education and Marketing the Arts in Charlottesville.
Participants in the forum included:
Bruce Boucher UVA Art Museum
Jane Fisher Charlottesville Community Design Center
Gary Funston Charlottesville Jazz Society
Harold Folley Virginia Organizing Project
Damani Harrison Music Resource Center
Holly Hatcher Charlottesville-Area Community Foundation
Rose Hill-Jones From Inside Out
Ronda Hewitt Live Arts Theater
Sibley Johns Music Resource Center
Bree Luck Light House Studio
Ken Moore Region Ten Consumer Advocate
Christine Nardi Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Emily Nelson UVA Art Student Society
Dave Norris Charlottesville City Council
Sherrika Nowell Urban Vision
Rydell Payne Abundant Life Ministries
Martin Phillips Charlottesville Jazz Society
Gloria Rockhold Albemarle Public Schools – Latino Relations
Joel Rubin UVA Department of Music
George Sampson UVA Arts Administration
Sherri Smith Artisans Center of Virginia
Mildred Spicer VSAarts Charlottesville-Albemarle
Jessica Thayer Artist Services
Karen Waters Quality Community Council
Annie Yoder Abundant Life Ministries
Brian Wheeler, the Executive Director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, joins Coy Barefoot each and every Tuesday at 5:00 PM to talk about the latest in growth and development in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. This week on the show:
Is Charlottesville doing enough to market itself as a regional destination for patrons of the arts? What else can be done to ensure that the visual, performing and literary arts not only survive, but thrive? Those are just a couple of the questions explored during the second Creative Conversation organized by the Piedmont Council of the Arts.
Representatives of various groups were invited to Charlottesville’s CitySpace meeting room on the Downtown Mall to discuss the topic “Marketing Charlottesville as a Creative Community.” The event was held on January 13, 2009 in the City Space Meeting Room at the Charlottesville Community Design Center. We’ve condensed the two hour discussion into a 45 minute podcast.
The participants were:
On Wednesday, January 28th, John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is a constitutional attorney and founder of the Rutherford Institute. His most recent book is The Change Manifesto. He was a guest on Charlottesville-Right Now! with Coy Barefoot on Wednesday to discuss some of his most recent commentaries.
On Thursday, Jan 8th, 2009, real estate analyst Jim Duncan of RealCentralVA, joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville– Right Now” to discuss the troubles with the community’s housing market. Will it get worse before it gets better? Duncan doesn’t know, and says that no one really knows because the fundamentals of the market are still in flux.
Other topics:
Chris Graham is the publisher of the Augusta Free Press and he joined Coy Barefoot on the January 5, 2009 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” Topics of conversation include the topsy-turvy price of gas, Governor Tim Kaine’s appointment to chair the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe’s candidacy to replace Kaine, Brian Moran’s campaign to do the same, as well as Senator Creigh Deeds bid. Graham predicts Deeds will be at a disadvantage because he cannot fundraise while the General Assembly is in session.
On Monday, January 5th 2009, Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris joined Charlottesville Right Now to talk about City Council’s agenda for the coming year. They begin that talk by discussing their mutual discovery of Facebook and then move on to Forrest Marshall’s request to rename the Meadowcreek Parkway after John Warner. Norris is a staunch opponent of the road and says it would be disingenuous to weigh in on what it should be called. Coy and Norris then move on to having a philosophical discussion of affordable housing, workforce development and the City’s upcoming budget cycle. Norris said that the City will not need to raise its property taxes this year.
On November 4, 2008, Democrat Tom Perriello achieved what almost no one thought he could do. He defeated Republican incumbent Virgil Goode by only 745 votes. What were the factors that led to Perriello’s victory? Well, on January 5, 2009, the group Left of Center sponsored a panel discussion to explore that question, and to look ahead to what it means for Democrats in the 5th District.