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(04/07/11 5:54am)
George Saunders was born in Amarillo, Texas, in 1958 and was raised in Chicago. He originally thought he would join a rock band after high school, but two teachers influenced him to attend college. He graduated from Colorado School of Mines, a mineral engineering college, with a degree in Geophysical Engineering in 1981. He worked his first job in Sumatra, Indonesia as a field geophysicist and began writing stories during this time. He returned to the United States after two years, and held various jobs in Los Angeles, including slaughterhouse laborer, roofer, convenience store clerk and bar-band guitarist. He moved back to Texas, and was soon accepted into Syracuse University's Creative Writing Program. He met his wife, Paula, at Syracuse. Three weeks after he met her, he proposed, and they married in May 1987. In 1997, he accepted a teaching position in the Syracuse University creative writing program. He has been teaching there ever since, along with writing several works, including "The Braindead Megaphone," "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," "In Persuasion Nation," and "The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip."
(03/31/11 9:11pm)
Twitter is on the rise.
(03/31/11 5:05am)
Student needs are important to the new chief of police.
(03/31/11 4:59am)
Centrally located in Richmond's Fan district and extremely close to quaint Cary Street, Avalon Restaurant & Bar offers unique tapas-style dining. With a wide array of small plates influenced by cuisines from across the globe, the menu at Avalon is constantly changing and evolving. There is a wide variety of meat and seafood options as well as several vegetarian and gluten-free dishes as well.
(03/31/11 4:46am)
The room selection lottery is a numbers game at best. But those who choose to room with someone younger than themselves immediately lose their lottery number and are lowered to the bottom of their class. Unfair as it may seem, it is necessary.
(03/24/11 4:12am)
Charlie Sheen's media rants are the stuff of poetry. Whether the high priest Vatican assassin warlock is talking about his goddesses, explaining the inner-workings of his brain or lampooning his employers, he is undeniably entertaining. He is not afraid to use offensive and absurd humor, and he's frustrated that people take it too seriously, rightly so. He is amazing. That term probably isn't good enough, but unfortunately I, like Sheen, am bound by these terrestrial descriptions.
(03/24/11 4:04am)
The University of Richmond's 12-member jazz combo and its director, Mike Davison, took a spring break trip to Greece and played eight gigs in Athens and Thessaloniki.
(03/24/11 3:36am)
So you might be wondering at this point if I ever eat at restaurants that don't deserve 4 out of 5 stars, but I stuck in the Ethiopian restaurant a few weeks ago to mix things up. When coming up with my ratings I try to base them on restaurants I know of the same caliber. For example, Tarrant's Cafe from my column a few weeks ago cannot be compared to Acacia Mid-Town even though they both received four out of five stars. In my mind, Tarrant's serves a completely different, more casual dining purpose whereas Acacia Mid-Town is more upscale and refined. However, both places deserved four out of five stars for their genre of restaurant.
(03/03/11 3:18am)
"Spartacus" is a new, awesome take on pornography. I suppose it could be categorized as a historical time-period fetish series -- nothing gets me going like the Third Servile War!
(03/03/11 3:11am)
Many University of Richmond students spent the first six weeks of the semester interning at the Virginia General Assembly, making connections and gaining political experience that may help them along their career paths.
(02/24/11 5:01am)
The Collegian goes behind the scenes of student employment on campus.
(02/24/11 3:13am)
Karaoke at Phil's Continental Lounge is attracting more students to the already popular Thursday night hangout.
(02/24/11 3:10am)
Students and faculty first reported sightings of elaborate architectural white board drawings in the Gottwald Center for the Sciences three weeks ago, but the artist, who leaves behind nothing but a bear claw signature, remains anonymous.
(02/24/11 2:42am)
Deciding how many stars to give Nile was really a struggle.
(02/24/11 2:39am)
The University Dancers will perform their 26th annual dance concert entitled "Next," at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
(02/24/11 2:35am)
Just as some shows overstay their welcome, others are cut down in their prime. Here are some shows that should not have been canceled:
(02/22/11 8:38pm)
Pablo Picasso is six artists rolled into one. He was the inventor of cubism, a master of classical painting, a leader of the French avant-garde, a surrealist, a sculptor and a printmaker. He is, according to University of Richmond art history professor Margaret Denton, the dominant 20th-century artist. And now, he's in Richmond, Va.
(02/17/11 3:59am)
All good TV shows must come to an end lest they become tiresome and repetitive. Series that can last as long as say, "Seinfeld," are very few and of a very specific breed. These are some shows that have overstayed their welcome:
(02/17/11 3:49am)
Hawthorne Heights has fallen off the radar of many of its old fans for the last few years. However, they are not gone by any means. We were given the opportunity to interview Eron Bucciarelli, drummer from Hawthorne Heights, last week before the sixth leg of their acoustic tour at Strange Matter on Grace Street.
(02/17/11 3:35am)
Skin-on-skin writhing and Italian subtitles heated up the projection screen in the International Commons on Feb. 10.
