By Ryan Marr Only a month after last year’s inaugural Rappahannock Independent Film Festival wrapped up, Creative Director Ryan Poe, along with several other key players in the local film community, holed up in a cottage in West Virginia to set to work debriefing, critiquing and planning for this year’s festival. Their year’s worth of [...]
Archive for August, 2009
UMW Fall Sports Preview
By Zach Moretti Now that summer has wrapped up, UMW athletics is back in full swing and full sweat. Volleyball, men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, and men’s and women’s soccer all look to build on their 2008 campaigns and hope to do even better in 2009. The 2008 Eagles volleyball team had a [...]
University Cafe is Open Late
By Kaitlin Mayhew For years, 409 William Street was a quiet place. The home of a moderately priced antique store, it was not so different from those that line the streets of Downtown Fredericksburg. After it went out of business, the chipped paint and gutted inside made the address all the more deserted. On May [...]
“500 Days of Summer” Not Worth Waiting All Summer For
By Katie O’Connor After much anticipation for the cute, indie, not-your-typical-love story “500 Days of Summer,” I was so ready for the breakout movie of the summer. After a disappointing “Wolverine,” I had lost faith in the film industry to accurately predict which blockbuster is going to be the talk of the school when the [...]
Susannigans: A Love Affair With a Seven Sister
By Susannah Clark It began with a love note. On a chilly fall afternoon in my senior year of high school, I received a brochure in the mail from a certain Seven Sister, encouraging me to apply. The fact that such a prestigious school expressed any interest in me was more than flattering—the Seven Sisters [...]
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