Author Archive for Waldo Jaquith

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Giving Candy to Strangers

A bunch of UVa students have been driving around and giving ice cream to strangers just for the heck of it.  #

Christian’s Pizza Adding New Locations

Pizza lovers rejoice: Christian’s will be adding three new locations around town, says today’s Daily Progress. (The story isn’t online.) Owner Christian Tamm had established a Corner location back when he owned Sylvia’s, but has stuck with his downtown location since he established Christian’s a few years back. Now he’s adding locations at Pantops, 29 N. and the Corner, all simultaneously. To keep quality high, he’ll make his best current employees into managers of the new locations.

“Evan Almighty” Not Liked by Reviewers

The reviews of “Evan Almighty” are rolling in, and they’re bad. They’re really, really bad. The positive reviews describe it as “mildly entertaining,” “[this movie] shouldn’t work, but it kind of does,” and “this is idiotic.” I’m a total movie cynic, and even I liked it more than that.  #

Whisper Ridge Employees Indicted

The director of operations at Whisper Ridge Behavioral Health System has pleaded guilty to attempted carnal knowledge of a minor in her care, the Daily Progress reported yesterday. Bianca Nicole Johnson has been sentenced to a year’s probation, and is cooperating in the cases against four other employees indicted on similar charges. The facility (formerly known as The Brown Schools, formerly known as The Millmont Center, and I think it was Charter before that) has been in trouble time and time again for sexual assault, an inability to deal with their own patients, even human rights violations.

And Whisper Ridge changes their name again in 3…2…1…

Open Surveillance

Tim McCormick is cool with surveillance cameras, as long as we all get to watch them.  #