Yeardley Love and former boyfriend George Huguely, who has been in jail since her death May 3.When murder suspect and UVA lacrosse player George Huguely spoke with police in May, he allegedly described an altercation with former girlfriend Yeardley Love in which her “head repeatedly hit the wall,” and his lawyer called Love’s death “an accident with a tragic outcome.” Now, the defense is trying to prove that.
Lawyers for Huguely were in a Charlottesville court December 15 seeking access to Love’s medical records, a request the prosecution calls “a fishing expedition.”
Although the medical examiner determined that Love died May 3 from blunt force trauma to the head, Huguely’s attorney, Fran Lawrence, argued that the cause of her death was unknown, and that’s why he subpoenaed records from UVA Athletics Department, UVA Student Health, and from the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, the last of which Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman had already agreed to enter the court record.
Amphetamines were found in Love’s body, according to the toxicology report, in an amount that would be consistent with her prescription for Adderall, a stimulant widely used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, said Bill Gormley, who (more)
Acoustic set from the Astronomers frontman. With David Ramirez and Ryan Douglas Phillips.
Thank heavens for this show, else we’d probably have to recommend you spend the holiday weekend with your families or something. But no, The Extraordinaires deliver with an acoustic set; though note that this probably means they’ll have a new tour-only EP that comes packaged inside a frozen Butterball — good luck fishing that out. Still, the main attraction here is probably the exceedingly rare reunion of Truman Sparks, once dubbed Virginia’s best unsigned band by an especially far-reaching survey conducted by the Boston Phoenix. There’s been lots of rumbling about Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand project these days, and if you’re a fan then you’d do well to also check out the delightfully screwball bizarro-rock that directly preceded it. Also featuring Northern Diver.
The Extraordinaires - 2012 Overture [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Eloise [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Terzetto [unmastered]
The Extraordinaires - Hi-Five The Cactus
The Extraordinaires - Neighborhood Watch
The Extraordinaires - The Captain
The Extraordinaires - A Proud Salute
The Extraordinaires - The Chicken, the Egg, or the Song?
The Extraordinaires - The Confession Of Kyle Griever
Intricately fingerpicked one-man loop pedal bluegrass band
Emmett Boaz worked as a gunsmith, and was a competitive pistol shooter for about 10 years.Ask people how they want to die, and the two most common answers will be in their sleep or doing something they love. Renaissance man and longtime disc jockey Emmett Boaz, 63, has gone the second way— at the soundboard of radio station WTJU. He had a heart attack shortly after beginning his 6:30am show on Saturday, November 6.
Although best known for his traditional music show, “Leftover Biscuits,” which he hosted since 1996, the endeavor just skimmed the surface of Boaz’s range of knowledge and skills. In 2003, the Hook ran an issue in which Boaz was quoted in almost every story, with Boazian observations on topics as diverse as development, music, and colonics.
Born in 1947, the Covesville-raised Boaz grew up on his family’s apple orchard, and he received a degree in English literature from Marshall University in West Virginia.
He was drafted and served in the Army in Vietnam during that war. Later, he put his James Madison University master’s degree into a teaching career, but, as he told the Hook in 2003, “If I’d stayed teaching junior high, I’d have killed somebody.”
Boaz— who seemed to love Elizabethan drama and guns with equal passion— was also well-known for the 15 years he spent as the manager of the 7-Eleven store at Woodbrook Drive, where he described his duties mostly as “throwing drunks out of the place.”
What struck many of his colleagues at WTJU was the depth of his knowledge of traditional music, which encompasses old time, early country, bluegrass, and roots-era music.
“It was his voice that drew me in,” says Leftover Biscuits co-host Peter Jones. “Emmett had a deep, Southern accent that would bring you in. He told stories from his childhood, and memories associated with a song.
“He downplayed his knowledge,” continues Jones. “He even played up his Southern corn pone.”
“Don’t let my father’s accent fool you,” says Emmett Boaz IV, who’s here from Fairbanks, Alaska. “He didn’t need (more)
Electronic improv jams from a Richmond group apparently out to remind everyone that trance doesn’t have to come straight from a keyboard sequencer preset.
J3 Project - Return Of The Gas Star
J3 Project - Honeywell
J3 Project - Kalima
J3 Project - Four Dimensions Of Invention, Part 1
J3 Project - Four Dimensions Of Invension, Part 2
J3 Project - Four Dimensions Of Invension, Part 3
J3 Project - Heady Salute
J3 Project - Everybody Get Down
J3 Project - Diminished
J3 Project - Breakin’ Out
You may have caught this rock songwriter and Bloodkin guitarist sitting in with Widespread Panic at the Charlottesville Pavilion a month or so ago, after which his bandmate Daniel Hutchens likewise played a solo acoustic set at the Taphouse.
As County officials announced recently, a red-light camera and video system is being installed at the intersection of Rio Road and 29 North. It’s going up October 11, but there will be a 30-day “warning period” before red-light runners are sent $50 tickets in the mail.
So, what do you think of this idea? The Hook wants to know!
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