VCU Dance opens 30th season with Ballet Hispanico
VCU Dance is kicking off its 30th-anniversary season with two performances by the New York-based Ballet Hispanico.
Album Review: Neon Indian’s ‘Era Extrana’
With so many new musically inclined technologies sprouting, it is no wonder the do-it-yourself approach to music has boomed in the past couple of years.
Thank you for (not) smoking
Michael Pasco Contributing Writer Richmond, while by no means a big city like New York or Chicago, is still a city. With that diverse, urban environment comes a certain atmosphere that is starkly different from more rural areas with which many VCU students may be more familiar. A big part of the atmosphere is the […]
Race-based scholarships outdated and unfair
Affirmative action in scholarships no longer needed
CT PRIDE GUIDE 2011: Get your pride on all day, all night
Nick Bonadies Spectrum Editor It’s that time of year again: With Mother Nature about to change out her wardrobe, Virginia’s annual gay pride festival PrideFest returns to Kanawha Plaza on South Eighth Street this Saturday, Sept. 24. PrideFest runs from noon to 8 p.m. and features multitudinous Virginia drag performers, a Mr. VA Pride pageant with […]
Briefs
VCU’s IHOP opening pushed back; Drivers could be paying tolls on Interstate 95 in two years; Richmond picked to host World Road Cycling Championships; Trial opens against scientists for Italy quake; Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek home; 12 more U.S. troops sent to Libya
Men’s soccer’s opponents trying to play chess, not checkers
You don’t have to be a soccer guru to see that head coach Dave Giffard employs a style of play as hell-wreaking as Shaka Smart’s Havoc.
Implementation of Monroe Park plan still up in the air
Monroe Park plan update
Police bust Monroe Park drug dealers
Mason Brown Staff Writer Commonwealth Times’ Twitter A Monroe Park-area drug dealer has turned himself in after police issued a warrant for his arrest. Tony Short, 40, has been arrested on a felony charge of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school and misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana […]
‘Let’s talk about sex’: VCU Sex Club breaking taboos
Megan Gallagher Contributing Writer Commonwealth Times’ Twitter “Let’s Talk About Sex!” is a phrase you might find plastered on the front of a pamphlet on your high school guidance counselor’s door. While those pamphlets never seem to get any action, this is hardly not the case with the Sex Club at VCU. Despite common first […]