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Virginia Democrats celebrate legislation they passed before Crossover Day
Virginia House Democrats celebrated passing nearly 850 bills before Crossover Day, more than a third of which were focused on affordability, during a press conference Thursday. Democratic delegates took the opportunity to acknowledge bipartisan accomplishments, including the 849 bills they passed before Crossover, where bills that passed must go to the Senate and Senate bills to the House. Of those, 84 percent received bipartisan votes, and 225 were Democrat-sponsored bills based on Gov.
Bill to increase physical activity in elementary school delayed
A House education subcommittee voted to delay advancing a bill by a Northern Neck delegate that would require public elementary schools to provide students with 10 more minutes of physical activity daily.
Music Monday: A Glimmer from the north
We’ve all gotten those ads. You know the ones, thrown together in Microsoft Paint, accented with a Barbie airbrush, and compressed down to 480p. Their proclamation is a simple, yet effective one: “HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA.” Well, those ads may have lied — lord knows I wish they hadn’t — a classic case of preying on male gullibility. Much to my dismay, every time I tried out one of those links, I was led to a rather unfortunate type of website.
Music Monday: The production of indie psychedelia
He’d done this before. Kenny Becker had the process down to a tee: noodle guitar ideas or piano progressions, figure out a gibberish singing melody, fill it in with syllables, get to producing, add grit and finally usurp that “gibberish” with lyrics. This process bore his songs. When you’re a creative, you know when it “works,” he said. Nontraditional studio access and divorce, however, tend to change things. Since 2015 he’d been writing and producing for his then solo-project: GOON.
The Freelance Files
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Music Mondays: From UR to 'Killing the Bear'
“Dude, let’s form a band,” Cameron Snapp instigated. So, he and his roommate, Brian Pagels, ‘03, did. Soon after, they landed a weekly gig and were debuting original music. But this isn’t a story about Snapp. It isn’t even a story about their band. This is about Pagels, how he never gave up on music, and how the musicians around him never gave up on him. Pagels grew up in Freehold, N.J., a town on the periphery of the once-vibrant Asbury Park music scene.
Music Mid-Week: A Taste of D.C. at our Doorstep
The vibrant retro red, white and green of Jarrod Hendricks’ windbreaker popped against the sea of gray van-roof directly above him. The window to his right exhibited the tapestry of a road trip: a tree, a building, a dash of purple, another car. The streaks of color in and out of the van were a mimicry of those on the cover of the album he helped create four years ago.
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: citizen journalist talks dangers of neo-Nazism without intervention
Editor’s note: Maria Byrnes, an organizer of this event, is the city and state editor of the Collegian. Don’t try to be perfectly objective or neutral when covering far-right extremism and don’t expect that the cops will respect your rights, said a citizen journalist and neo-Nazi expert Molly Conger at a talk at the University of Richmond on April 2.
Music Mid-Week: an interview with a dream pop tour de force
“Can you guys see this?” Wyatt Clem asked as the camera swung away from him, emphasizing his blurred background. “We’re at a Lowe’s right now,” he said with a smile. He was leaning slightly forward, his blonde hair draping his shoulders. Shawn Abhari, who was closer to the camera and sitting next to Clem, had moved the phone camera back to its original vertical position on the Zoom call. Clem and Abhari are The Ivy, an indie synth-pop duo from Tulsa, Okla.
Music Mondays: Four dollar love
Sometimes falling in love is unexpected, sometimes it comes from a brief meeting and sometimes it’s a combination of the two mixed together in a crusty cardboard box nestled between a few other crusting cardboard boxes. Tucked away halfway down South Tulane Street, Princeton, N.J., lies Princeton Record Exchange, a godsend for the frugal and ambitious music collector.
Music Monday: Albums Left Behind
On a drowsy, gray February morning last year, I found myself driving across central Jersey in my Dad’s beat-up 2000 Toyota Avalon. With no music downloaded and no data on my phone, I found myself listening to the raindrops tapping on the windshield. Out of boredom, I started toying with the buttons around the radio dock; AM: static, FM: static on most stations, cassette player: empty, CD player: post-grunge.
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