A worker in a tethered bucket grinds away some masonry atop the Lewis & Clark Square condo tower yesterday morning. Soon, Lewis & Clark may not be the only skyscraper in that block if the Waterhouse complex gets built.
Monticello really gets new boss
Monticello really is getting a new director. Yes, we heard change was coming last September, but it’ll be hard to imagine the place without 24-year veteran Dan Jordan. The new boss, Leslie Greene Bowman, hails from Winterthur, an Americana, decorative arts, and architecture museum based in a rich person’s house in Delaware. (0)
Hook gets wrong hours, F-bomb
Someone claiming to be associated with Maya, the restaurant reviewed in this issue, pointed out that we botched the restaurant’s hours (totally this editor’s and not the reviewer’s fault), insisted that his restaurant used fresh whipped cream, dropped an F-bomb, and left. We do apologize about the whipped cream disbelief but particularly for the wrong hours. From maya-restaurant.com, here are the right ones: Maya’s bar is open 4:30pm to 2am daily. Maya’s kitchen is open from 5 to 10pm Sunday through Thursday and 5 to 11pm Friday and Saturday. (1)
Feds get plea from UVA 'hooker booker'
A 32-year-old who majored in English literature at UVA, Tameka Rochelle Lewis, is the latest casualty in the war on prostitution once pursued by— but now ensnaring— former New York prosecutor governor Eliot Spitzer, Reuters reports. The complaint [PDF] indicates that Lewis, who pleaded guilty this morning to a “conspiracy,” was the one who booked the Valentine’s Day tryst at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel that destroyed Spitzer’s political career. (0)
Anastasia's still dead
A Russian scholar recently announced that the DNA in bone shards of two of the royal children slain by the Bolshevik guards in 1918 conclusively shows that all members of the Romanov family have now been accounted for. (That’s contrary, of course, to those who insist— despite separate 1994 DNA evidence– that the youngest Romanov girl, Anastasia, somehow survived the fusillade, tried to drown herself in a Berlin canal, and then married one of Charlottesville’s most eccentric citizens and lived her life in squalor.) (1)
Drink up-- drought watch lifted
After recent flood watches and 4.25 inches of rain so far in May, the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority calls an end to the drought watch it declared in July 2007. Most of the local reservoirs have been brimming since last fall. (3)
