Mothers for Leatherbacks

You can have your Boss, your Eagles, your Van Hope-They-Show-Up. I’m very excited that The Leatherbacks are going to be in town for Tandem’s Mother’s Day Music Festival. Yes, I gave birth to one of them, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t fine musicians. (No relation to the George Clooney movie of a similar name.)

links for 2008-04-30

U cn hav it now « Loldogs ‘n’ Cute Puppy Pictures – I Has A Hotdog! Oh, yay. One of my CvilleWords posts is “possibly related” to this post. I’m not sure this new WordPress feature is going to work out… Literature-Map – The tourist map of literature HT: Book of Joe The Blog of [...]

Tara Yellen reads from After Hours at the New Dominion

Tara Yellen read from After Hours at the Almost Home, which is a May 2008 Book Sense Pick, at the New Dominion Bookshop on Thursday, April 15. Charlottesville Podcasting Network has the recording of her reading and q-and-a with audience members. Yellen is a graduate of the University of Virginia MFA program and currently lives [...]

What can book prizes tell us?

Max at The Millions has come up with a methodology for using book awards to rank the best books since 1995. Here are the current top ten: 11, 2003, The Known World by Edward P. Jones – C, I, N, P 9, 2001, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – C, I, N, P 8, 1997, [...]

Charlottesville Coffee Houses get WaPo Love

This article profiles some favorite coffee spots around town: Mudhouse, Cafe Cubano, Shenandoah Joe, and C’Ville Coffee. La Taza is featured in the accompanying slideshow. [HT: RU]

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