You can always check out cvilleMUSE for your arts and music recommendations, but without further ado, I present to you things which will make your weekend better than swell. I actually really like looking around for exciting things to do, because there is cool and unique stuff every weekend. As always, let us know what we’ve forgotten.
All the stuff is after the break!
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Some University of Virginia students go on to do great things like be famous politicians, run Fortune 500 companies and book hookers.
Or, wait… There is Tameka Lewis who just plead guilty to money laundering and promoting prostitution. She’s 32 and has an English major from UVA. While Tameka’s family couldn’t believe that she did anything wrong, it looks like they have believe, differently.
Tameka is part of the investigation that involved former New York Governor, Eliot Sptizer.
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Thanks to Jim’s Twitter Feed for this one! Since we are being elitist, we may as well make fun of Richmond. F*ucking Capital VA!
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While we may think that a culturally superior Charlottesville doesn’t face the strange laws of our Virginian relatives, but the truth hurts. This time it’s about Halloween, slugs and pool halls…
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Street lets us know that:
NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years. This finding was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with ground-based observations.
Live audio of the teleconference will be streamed online: here.
What do you think they are going to announce? The winner gets to hook up with Scowly.
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On May 17th and 18th, this Friday and Saturday, Charlottesville will face The University of Virginia Graduation Weekend 2008. If you haven’t noticed, zombie week is really just calm before all hell breaks loose. In fact, graduation weekend is such a hellish time, that UVA even has an office devoted to it called (cue deep scary voice) “The Office of Major Events.” I’m not kidding, check out the website. I heard they wanted to name it Office for Hell on Earth, but that offended the religious right.
Oh and if you want to graduate virtually, you can even watch a live internet broadcast run by the Office of Major Events.
So despite this impending nightmare, Charlottesville residents, future worker bees and their relieved parents all storm Charlottesville like it’s June 6th, 1944, only this time it’s May 17th, 2008 and we’re going to call it G-Day. Why do they do it? Who knows, but maybe we can help you out a little…
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There are plenty of choices to get your running shoes. (Thanks, Orchid)
Charlottesville Running Company - Relatively New to the Area, but I’ve heard they are good.
Downtown Athletic - Has tons of sports stuff, but not running focused. Not actually Downtown.
Ragged Mountain Running Shop- The oldest player in town. Very good!
Did I miss anywhere?
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We just got word via David Swanson and confirmed by the Daily Progress that Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Omni Hotel on May 22nd from 7PM to 9PM. Tickets will be available at the door and cost $10 for students; $20 for general admission; $50 for admission and a photo with Sheehan; and $100 for admission, a photo with Sheehan and priority seating.
Seriously, $100 for a photo? I guess now that she’s trying to be an elected politician, she needs the money, but this seems a little odd. Where is that money going? To her California campaign or to anti-war stuff. I guess this time, the pro-war protesters won’t be present. Or will they?
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