Cover UVA football, Charlottesville VA

Sources are ABSOLUTELY the writer's. They don't talk to the Washington Post. They talk to the writer. The writer is the one there every day, doing the work, getting the sources.

Is that an honest question?

 

Pete Gillen is a wonderful guy. He's absolutely delightful.

Wonder if he'll skip town now that his favorite bar has closed.

http://www.readthehook.com/102742/after-26-year-st-maarten-caf-closes

 

Yeah, Pete is well liked around town and didn't do that bad at UVa. Dave Leitao? That's a different story.

But the point about people who could live anywhere choosing CVille stands. I buy dog food at the same store as Sissy Spacek, have seen Howie and Chris Long at Chipotle, John Grisham built a little league facility south of town, DMB members all still live around here, etc.

 

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Howie Long.

 

I used to date a girl who once got in a fight with Schuyler Fisk (Sissy Spacek's daughter).

My favorite C'ville-area celebrity would definitely be The Rock, who bought a house in Orange County a few years ago.

 

When did Cosmo make that point? Quote fail. I want my damn credit.

The Post doesn't do the whole beat-writer-switcharoo nearly as often in these days. It does it with college beats, which used to be handled largely by interns. The Post had a two-year internship program that was as good as any starter job anyone can get. Recent former interns: Yanda, Nationals beat writer Adam Kilgore, Capitals beat writer Katie Carrera, The Star-Ledger Yankees beat writer Mark Carig, The Star-Ledger Giants beat writer Zach Berman, The New York Times sports writer Mark Viera.

So the Post got the best and brightest out of college and made them full-time interns for two years (paying them fairly well, as I understand it), and as a result, constantly shifted its college sports beat writers. Yanda is full-time now on the Virginia beat. Liz Clarke took Maryland basketball because Tarik El-Bashir took Georgetown basketball from her. I think Mark Giannotto, the Virginia Tech beat writer, is an intern, but he'd be near the end of his internship if he is.

And sources absolutely belong to the reporter, which is why some competing newspapers have, in the past, hired away well-sourced reporters from rivals to cover the same beat.

 

sad face...i spent much of my 21st birthday there...and many other nights...

 

Thanks to most of my friends being younger than me, I spent my 21st there as well. The cheese fries were fantastic.

 

Very much so. Though going over Afton during a storm of any kind (winter, summer, don't matter) can be "fun." Waynesboro isn't all that bad and has picked up considerably with a BW3 and whatnot moving in. Also, Augusta County could be a nice cheap option. Or Nelson.

 

Waynesboro used to be dead. Dead. Since then, they've added a few things (BAM, Target, coffee house downtown, a few restaurants) and stuff like that. Hey, it's a southern industrial town and the place where spandex was invented fercrissakes!!! There are area's of town not to live (Basic City, The Phillipines), but for the price and ease of commute, I'd live there in a heartbeat if I worked in C'ville because the good areas far outweight "depressed" areas.

 

And, really, how depressed can a city be when half of Albermarle's law enforcement lives there?
(Sorry, I've moved around a lot in my years and there are no places closer to my heart than, in order, my hometown and Waynesboro, Va. I know, pretty sad. But still ...)