Chief’s 747 at CHO? No.

A Hook reader living in the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport flight path on Gentry Lane though he saw a 747 coming over Wednesday morning– with a light blue paint scheme like Air Force One, More… (4)

Snap: new CTS fares

From $2 to $1.50, CTS lowered its all-day bus fare— around the time this photo was shot, which was 8:28am on August 18. (1)

Match point: Strumlaufs bring market to Market

Steven Strumlauf, his son Raphael, and chef Mario Moyer hope to have the Market Street Market open by the end of September.
PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR

What does a pro tennis player and his sculptor Dad do when the son decides to hang up his tennis racket? Open up a grocery store, of course!

By the end of September the Downtown Mall should finally have a quality grocery store, the Market Street Market, brought to you by a most unlikely doubles pairing in the food business.

So how did they decide on a grocery store?

“I wouldn’t say there was any defining moment that we came to a concrete decision,” says son Raphael Strumlauf,” but when I came back  last year we really started looking for something that we could do together.”

Indeed, father and son are More… (2)

FridaysUpdate: A complete 180: Band brings back classic dance hits

180 tries to bring infectious energy to its reenactment of modern dance hits.
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“In Charlottesville, you’re either a genre band or doing original stuff,” cellist Frank Squillace says. “But how many times have we been told we’re the only band playing modern dance music?”

His band, dubbed 180, is a seven-piece ensemble playing covers of the most danceable hits from the ’60s to today– think the Temptations, Santana, Van Morrison. And while most More… (0)

‘You’re not Jewish enough,’ shuttered frat says told

A UVA fraternity shut by its national sponsor claims it’s been told that it’s ‘not Jewish enough,” the Cavalier Daily reports in a long and winding story. The allegation— which Alpha Epsilon Pi officials reportedly declined to address— was originally aired two weeks ago by the Newsplex. The national office claims that weak recruiting, hazing, and shoddy house maintenance are the real reasons. The mission statement of the fraternity, founded at NYU in 1913, still stresses “Jewish ideals, values, and ethics.”

–story last updated 9:18am, September 1
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