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Omni-hotel-stayin’ singer Jessica Simpson rebounds from her curvy chili cook-off/mom jeans scandelette right here in Charlottesville at the John Paul Jones Arena.
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A UVA student named Ronald Johnson, who accurately guessed— or so he claims– the first two or three questions to a multiple-choice environmental sciences class, has been acquitted in an open Honor trial, perhaps the first such trial since one this paper covered last July. The Cavalier Daily has the story.
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Signs illegally placed in the public right-of-way (the subject of an old Hook cover story) may be yanked and the perpetrators penalized beginning February 17, according to an enforcement action Albemarle is initiating after inking a deal with VDOT, according to a County release.
How is Charlottesville’s hotelus interruptus related to the disgraced Merrill Lynch CEO? Via designer-to-the-stars Michael S. Smith, a favorite of hotel owner Halsey Minor. But Smith’s $1.2 million office overhaul for Merrill boss John Thain (a relative bargain compared to Smith’s $100K job for the Obamas) helped push the banker into the unemployment line. The L.A.-based designer was to have fashioned interiors for Minor’s now-paused Landmark Hotel, seen here in mid-November.
Displacing Jessica Simpson’s weight as the big news at the January 29 concert at John Paul Jones Arena, an Army man and his girlfriend were invited onstage by Rascal Flatts for a marriage proposal, as seen in this YouTube video.
(4)A proposal to end Virginia’s monopoly on liquor sales and move, as its sponsor put it, “into the post-Prohibition era,” has died in a General Assembly committee, according to media reports. The move was proposed by a Harrisonburg-area state senator Mark Obenshain, but was passed over indefinitely in a January 30 voice vote.
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