Kurt Heasley, Lilys founder & frontman, local musician, and artist join WTJU host Thomas Dean to chat about the history of the Lilys while spinning tunes from the band’s musical output. Recorded Tuesday, April 16, 2024 as part of WTJU 91.1 FM's Rock MarathonBy wtju

Robert Schneider, lead vocalist, guitarist, and founding member of the Apples in Stereo, joined WTJU 91.1 FM for a chat with DJ Baconfat about the the Elephant 6 Collective. Recorded on Sunday, April 22, 2024 as part of WTJU's Rock MarathonBy wtju

This website is nearly 19 years old, and doesn’t really have any original content of its own. But without the Charlottesville Podcasting Network, there is no way I would have ever been able to be where I am today—in an era of never-ending experimentation! For most of its time, Charlottesville Community Engagement has been a newsletter and podcast. …

Argentina’s new president is a libertarian populist and, by his own account, an anarcho-capitalist. To tackle his county’s deep economic troubles, Javier Milei wants to dismantle state institutions, implement severe austerity measures and strip protections for workers. He also wants to outlaw abortion. But in a country with a strong tradition of or…

Welcome to the April 6, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs of Town Crier Productions, a company that seeks to increase awareness of what’s happening at meetings of local government in the greater Charlottesville area. If you click through to the podcast, you will hear a series of stories that have appeared in the n…

Written by a musical genius.By wtju

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Multi-instrumentalist Duncan Wickel sat down with WTJU Folk Director Peter Jones to go track by track through his debut solo release, Five Early Home Recordings (2003-2004) recorded two decades ago. They also chatted about Duncan's background all the way up to what he is doing these days.By wtju

Last May, protestors took the streets in Pakistan to support Imran Khan, the populist prime minister tossed from office and into the slammer. Now, in a rebuke to the military and political establishment, voters put more candidates from Khan’s circle in parliament than from any other party. But they fell short of a majority last month in an election…

Good morning and welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement for Saturday. March 23. What is this? It’s a weekly look at some of what’s been happening in local and regional government in the part of Virginia where WTJU broadcasts. I’m Sean Tubbs, a journalist keen on writing as much as I can and sharing it in a variety of places. This website i…

Unique, mesmerizing and hypnotic.By wtju

Good morning and welcome to Charlottesville Community Engagement for March 16, 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, a local journalist who created a company called Town Crier Productions four years ago to increase coverage of municipal governments in the area around Charlottesville. This week on radio version for WTJU, we solely look at public transportation in t…

Last year, there were 645 mass shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In the latest major tragedy, at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade, one person was killed and 22 others — half of them children — suffered gunshot wounds. But here’s something you may not know: since then, there have been another 26 mass shootings. …

This is the archive edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement for Saturday, March 9, 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, a local journalist who writes about infrastructure, budgets, and all sorts of decisions about what gets built. What you’re going to hear is a digest of stories that have been used this week in the podcast version of a newsletter I send o…

(Air date: March 2, 2024) Hello and welcome again to another radio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement, customized for WTJU. I’m Sean Tubbs, the president of Town Crier Productions, a company I set up in 2020 to create stories about what’s happening in the localities surrounding the University of Virginia. Since July 2020, I’ve produced…

This season we’ve adopted walls as our loose theme, and architectural historian Louis Nelson joins Will and Siva to help frame the idea. At the University of Virginia, wavy brick walls enclose beautiful gardens. But as Nelson explains those walls once served a more sinister purpose. Drawing on this lesson from the past, our guest and hosts grapple …

On February 24, 2024, the very first installment of a new customized version of Charlottesville Community Engagement created for WTJU. I’m Sean Tubbs, a community journalist who started this website in 2005 as an experiment in community journalism! That adventure continues with an omnibus version of the regular podcast. Back in the summer of 2020, …

Missy Raines stopped by WTJU to go track by track through her latest album, Highlander, out now on Compass Records. Missy Raines is a trailblazer in bluegrass. She is the most awarded bass player in the history of the International Bluegrass Music Association.By wtju

It can move you to tears.By wtju

Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists played a key role in fighting the Japanese during World War II. In the decades after, China’s role as an ally to the West was largely erased from its domestic politics — and all but forgotten everywhere else. Lately, Chinese leaders are revisiting “the Good War…

One of the leading Spanish composers of the "Beautiful Age".By wtju

Banjo legend Alan Munde stopped by WTJU to go track by track through his new album, Excelsior, out now on Patuxent. In addition to background on the album, Alan also chatted with WTJU Folk Director Peter Jones about what first got him into banjo when he was growing up in Norman, Oklahoma as a child.By wtju

At their meeting on January 17, 2024, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors reviewed draft goals and objectives for five of the eight chapters in the update of the Comprehensive Plan. The process is called AC44. This audio originally appeared in the January 26, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement and is also archived on Information Ch…

Its iconic opening became a Classical hit.By wtju

Tyler and Erika hear from an artist who uses composted deer bodies in her work, plus a hunter-artist making deep connections between herself, her audience, and the animals she kills. And then we find a connection of our own by scraping the flesh from a deer hide in Erika’s backyard. Along the way: deer stories, poetry, and more.Show Notes: The Age …

Tyler and Erika take a field trip to a taxidermist’s shop, then talk with an ancestral skills expert who collects roadkilled deer for meat, hides, and bones. We’re pondering what it is that gets memorialized or honored by these practices, what it means to be a hunter or a scavenger, and the long history of humans finding ways to use the bodies of d…

Tyler and Erika look at how deer show up in American mythologies, and the older cultures that form its roots. We talk to a historian about why Americans keep changing our mind about hunters, spy on Daniel Boone’s love life, and ponder stories of shapeshifting deer from medieval England to Indigenous America. Plus, Erika visits a very strange touris…

This is the Charlottesville Podcasting Network with a longer form audio segment from something that happened this week. In this case, the election of officers for Charlottesville City Council for the next two years. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I posted a smaller version of this earlier this week in the January 2, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community E…

On December 18, 2023, Charlottesville City Council unanimously adopted a new zoning code intended to make it easier for developers to build more housing. The idea is that increased supply will bring down the overall cost. Another idea is to increase requirements for developers to build affordable units. This is a topic I’ve been covering extensivel…