Denials to the contrary, it appears that Christie is running, and running hard, for 2016. As University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato pointed out, “He’s not going to turn down this chance to be president. He’s running. It’s obvious he’s running. [His election-night speech was] less a talk about his second term in New Jersey than his first term as president.”
Two of our regular critics were at the Virginia Film Festival this weekend and sent daily updates, capsule reviews, and reflections on what they saw. One of the first pieces of cultural criticism I ever attempted, way back when I was in high school, was an examination of how and why so many films and television series were formally structured to justify adultery. (I was angry at Herman Wouk's The Winds of War for making me root as a reader for naval officer Pug Henry to ditch his wife.) The two most common practices, it seemed to me, were to 1) make the wife ugly or 2) make the wife a shre...
The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for way more than just gaming. It's good for sign language, cheating at pool, and (duh) porn. But it could help stop violence, too. Thanks to Kinect, security cams could automatically know if they're witnessing a beat-down. Kintense, a system designed by Shahriar Nirjon and colleagues at the University of Virginia, uses Kinect's skeletal tracking and an algorithm with an eye for punches and kicks to tell if folks on camera are in the middle of a scuffle. And while it was originally intended to alert medical staff to patients who...
The GOP may have postponed its day of reckoning at the hands of a younger, browner, queerer electorate – "They're holding back the tides," says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics – but sooner or later, they're going to get swamped.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said the governor wasn't fooling anyone. As Christie touted key election returns -- including his support from 57 percent of women, 51 percent of Hispanics, and 32 percent of Democrats -- in his cruise to a second term against Barbara Buono, a Democratic state senator, he was priming his party for a presidential run, he said. "There's only one reason for that," Sabato said. "It's to send a message to Republican activists that if they want to break up the Democratic coalition, they have to nominate someone who ca...
(By Robert F. Graboyes, adjunct professor of health economics in the U.Va.. School of Nursing) State insurance commissioners have long seen themselves as protectors of the public's wallets – the officials who say "no" to insurers' requests to increase health insurance premiums. It has not yet sunk in that on this coming New Year's Day, the Affordable Care Act will flip the commissioners' motives upside-down, prompting them to approve and even encourage premium increases.
Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia's top political prognosticator, has just two races listed as toss-ups in the most recent edition of his "Crystal Ball" (a tracking site for national politics).
A new report shows The College of William & Mary sent more of its students to study abroad than any other public college in the U.S. during the 2011-12 school year, the school announced Monday. In a study supported by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Institute of International Education reported that 45.7 percent of W&M undergrads participated in study abroad programs that year. The University of Virginia sent 32.3 percent of its students to international programs during the same year.
"The person leading before you go into an official recount almost always ends up being the winner, and the recount in this day and age is less likely to see any substantial changes," says Geoff Skelley, an analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
(Audio) On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord sat down with special festival guests. Along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, Taccone is one-third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island which has produced many of the SNL Digital Shorts. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed MacGruber, a parody of 80s action films in which Will Forte revived and expanded one of his enduring SNL characters. The two comedians talk about making the life journey from independent creative artists to Saturday Night Live and beyond.
The clean up of Typhoon Haiyan is under way in the Philippines. The Organization of Young Filipino Americans at the University of Virginia is raising money for the country that is now devastated by the storm.
Army, Air Force and Navy units at the University of Virginia are honoring veterans with a two-day display on Grounds. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, ROTC participants from all three branches are taking turns marching back and forth on the steps of the Rotunda in 15-minute shifts.
Students at the University of Virginia are launching a fundraising campaign to support recovery from Friday’s powerful typhoon that washed away communities and claimed 10,000 lives in the Philippines. The campaign to provide aid for typhoon survivors is personal for students in UVA’s Organization of Young Filipino Americans.
The local economy wins regardless of how the University of Virginia men’s basketball team fares tonight against Virginia Commonwealth University at sold-out John Paul Jones Arena, local officials said Monday.
Midshipmen in the University of Virginia’s Naval ROTC are slated to participate in a seven-mile conditioning hike Saturday morning, according to a UVa news release. Members of the unit will be carrying non-functioning rubber M-16A2 service rifles, each marked with three inches of bright orange paint at the end of the barrel.
Chances are, you know someone right now, who is battling cancer. The disease, in all its forms, takes millions of lives each year. Which is why we turn your attention to a hopeful new discovery from researchers at the University of Virginia.
U.S. Air Force Col. Steven T. Hiss — who leads the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Virginia and Liberty and James Madison universities — recalled the daring and sacrifice of U.S. Army Air Force Lt. Col. James Doolittle and his raiders, who flew Tokyo bombing missions off Navy aircraft carriers early in World War II.
A group of students from South America wrapped up its weeklong stay in Charlottesville with some community service Monday afternoon. More than 20 high school students from Bolivia and Peru volunteered at the Habitat for Humanity store through the University of Virginia Center for Politics' Youth Ambassador Program.
The University of Virginia Library has been awarded a grant to enable a collection of works about the European exploration of North America to be viewed online. The university says the Detroit-based McGregor Fund has awarded U.Va. a $245,000 grant for a three-year effort to convert a significant portion of its McGregor Library of American History to digital format.
ACTRESS TIPPI Hedren detailed how Alfred Hitchcock tried to put the moves on her as they filmed both “The Birds” and “Marnie.” Will Forte, of comedic “Saturday Night Live” fame, said he thrived in the transition to his first dramatic role, in Alexander Payne’s superb new film, “Nebraska.” And actor Scott Haze said he didn’t really think things through before telling director James Franco he was worried that a special sling wouldn’t hide the arm he supposedly lost near the end of his new film, “Child of God.” “H...