February 7th, 2002 issue #0101
February 7th, 2002
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Unloaded: What a long strange trip it's been
If we told you that not too far from here, in a typical Albemarle County farmhouse on a typical small-town street, with a wife and two kids, four dogs, a spreadwing American eagle over the garage door and a basketball hoop in the driveway, there lives a guy who introduced the U. S. to Colombian gold and smuggled nearly a million pounds of it into the country from the mid-'70s to the mid-'80s, would you believe us? Read on.
4Better Or Worse
The Dish
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DINEOmite- Sizzlin' at the Copa
Sometimes it's not always easy to find a restaurant to impress out-of-town guests, unless they're from Palmyra or something. We have many good nouvelle American-style resta...
Essays
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Newspapers: our last connection?
As the TentMaker would have it: "The moving finger writes; and, having writ,//Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit//Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line//Nor all thy Tea...
Question of the Week
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What do you think of UVA's decision to flatten the Trax/Max building?
Alexandria Searls: "My first thoughts were for the Music Resource Center. Where will it go on such short notice? The kids who use the center need to be able to get the...
Real Estate - On the Block
Music Reviews
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ON THE PROWL- It's like glue: two ounces of pain go their own, long way
Rosie ThomasWhen We Were Small(Sub Pop) It doesn't seem quite right to call this Detroit-born, Seattle-based girl's album ambitious– its 10 tracks come in just under ...
News
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ABOUT- Font-tastic
In the creation of the new paper, every element of its content and design was evaluated. For the body copy, we chose a narrowed version of nine-point Hoefler Text. It offer... -
ABOUT- Why The Hook?
It's not just because it's a good idea– so many metaphors and phrases take it in useful directions: a good news story has a "hook" that grabs you from the first line ... -
Goodbye, C-ville: Anatomy of a hostile take-over
Editor's note: Tempting as it may be, this new paper will avoid self-referential reporting— except for this one time. In the interests of explaining how the Hook began, i...
Strange But True
Facetime
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Joan Woodfolk recalls Vinegar Hill
We meet at the Jefferson Preschool, the first building that comes to Joan Woodfolk's mind when I ask for a place that will evoke her childhood memories of Vinegar Hill. ...
Letters
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LETTER- from the Editor
Dear Readers, One month ago today, I was sitting at my desk when I learned my career with the newspaper I co-founded 12 years earlier was coming to an end. It was a ...