Spooks Carytown
Blood, guts, grunts and moans overtook Carytown this past Saturday.
The fourth annual Zombie Walk was held in the spirit and anticipation of Halloween as well as to benefit the American Cancer Society.
Masses of people dressed up and rose from their graves in order to spook and entertain bystanders.
Zombietown
Three types of zombies
Asteroid Zombies – These zombies are created when a fallen meteor brings an alien virus to earth. This virus reanimates the dead for the purpose of eating the living.
Voodoo Zombies – These zombies are not your traditional undead.
Musicians encourage students to vote
Hundreds of students raised their hands and pledged to “rock the vote” Wednesday afternoon at Monroe Park, as they watched musicians the Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow and Jack Johnson.
The Rock the Vote campaign uses music, popular culture and new technologies to inspire young citizens to vote.
Seven questions with Kevin Smith
Ahead of the release of his new movie “Zack and Miri Make A Porno,” which opens Friday, director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back) sat down for a teleconference with university publications from across the country to talk about his new movie.
Top 10 things to do on Halloween
The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. Halloween is Friday, my friends, and everyone better be ready to throw down and have some fun-considering this is the first time Halloween has been on a Friday or Saturday in five years. The Opinion section of The CT has decided to put together another one of our famous lists just in time for the holiday.
How will the next mayor shape VCU?
As student excitement for the upcoming presidential election mounts, some of Richmond’s mayoral candidates fear their race might be lost in the hype.
Robert Grey, Lawrence Williams, Dwight Jones and Bill Pantele, the four candidates running to replace Mayor L.
When it rains, it poos
Fecal bacteria-filled water is being dumped into the James River by overflows in Richmond’s combined sewer system. Data show that 26 combined sewer release points overflowed at least once into the James during the month of August alone.
Some of the release points overflowed as many as three times.
VCU employees donate mostly to Obama
Tim Thurber, an associate professor of history, had never donated to a political campaign before. For this year’s presidential race, he gave $200 to Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama.
“This is a critical election, a critical moment in American history,” Thurber said.
Quake in remote Pakistan border region kills 170
A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people and turning mud and timber homes into rubble.
An estimated 15,000 people were left homeless, and rescuers were digging for survivors in a remote valley in Baluchistan, the remote province bordering Afghanistan where the magnitude 6.
North Korea’s Kim suffers new health setback
New South Korean intelligence indicates that ailing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il suffered a serious setback in his recovery from a stroke and has been hospitalized, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The report in the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper cited an unnamed government official in saying intelligence obtained Sunday suggested “a serious problem” with Kim’s health.