February 28th, 2002 issue #0104

February 28th, 2002

  • Mark Linkous sparkles: The life (and short death) of a legend

    Mark Linkous is somewhere in the darkened recording booth, but the only thing I can see in the blackness is my own shadow, cast by the light streaming in the entrance.  “Could you shut the door?” Linkous pleads in a gravelly tone immediately recognizable from his albums. Acoustic foam must be hard to clean, as there’s a distinct dusty smell— although our whispers are sonically perfect.   Essential Sparklehorse listening Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

      Worst case of NIMBYism: Eleven Keswick property owners, who live in a rural area zoned agricultural, oppose a new agricultural venture, Keswick Vineyards, reports Pe...

The Dish

  • Gas-p!

    We blew it last week, when we announced the new gas station and eatery opening April 1 on Pantops. It will be a Liberty gas station, owned by Virginia Oil, says Stu Rifkin...

Essays

  • Musically rich

    There are two kinds of rock n’ roll cult heroes: the kind that show up in cheesy posters hanging on dorm room walls and the kind that inhabit the hearts of musicians, cr...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Squirrel house

    Asking: $269,000 Square Footage: Fin: 1416; Unfin: 168 Year built: 1935 Address: 761 Lexington Avenue Neighborhood: North Downtown Curb Appeal: 8 on a scale of 10 Listed b...

Movie Reviews

  • Quick, get the Raid!

      When Kevin Costner loves, no one has ever loved so much. When he loses his love, no one has ever lost so much. And when he wants something, no one had better stand i...

Music Features

News

  • Georgia O'Keefe was here

    If there was any doubt before about which house artist Georgia O’Keefe resided in while she was here, it’s now official: it was 1212 Wertland Street, and there’s a h...

  • Paramount breaks ground- finally

    For well over a decade— maybe two decades— people have been trying to save the Paramount. Supporters of the historic theater will finally break ground on its long-await...

  • Party over here

      For Charlottesville Democrats who want to have a voice in electing candidates for the City Council race in May, participation isn’t a matter of waltzing into a loc...

  • White sheets; no-iron(y)

    Like an uninvited guest at a funeral, the European-American Unity and Rights Organization has inserted itself into the turmoil over the attacks on white UVA students by bl...

Facetime

  • Romantic roofs

    “It’s not the thickness; it’s the angle,” explains master thatcher Colin McGhee when asked how straw or reed roofs can last. Thatching, a term used to describe the...

Letters

  • Not P.C. part I

    Reading your first column [“Sizzlin’ at the Copa,” 02/07/02], I am outraged that you relate a comment “so what guy hasn’t been involved in a gangbang” as “so...

  • Not P.C. part II

    In last week's Savage Love column [02/14/02], Dan Savage's use of the word "faggot" really bothered me. I know that this is a syndicated column, and I think it fits very w...

  • We couldn't hear him

      You forgot a song on your list of DMB songs in movies. "Help Myself" was both in the movie Scream 2 and on the soundtrack.   Kristin Anderson Charlottesville A...

Cultural preview

  • Funky boy culinary school

      Funk’s always been about, well, the funk. Do you feel the funk? Get funky! Ha, funk! Funk da house! Make it funky! Funk dat! Funk for yo mama! Funkenstein!  B...

  • Horsing around in the mountains

      An hour north of Charlottesville lies some of this area’s most beautiful landscape. At the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Rappahannock County has stayed much th...

  • No grinches at these parties

      Hey, Sam-I-Am! Hey, Sam-I-Am!  It’s somebody’s birthday.  Can you guess the man?  It’s Dr. Seuss, born on March two.  And if you’re a fan...

  • Not quite the inside story

      For Charlottesvillians, the words “The Nook” conjure up a constellation of images: Naugahyde bench seats, thick white diner china, burgers under iceberg and pale...

  • Old faces, new places

      They have done it in a furniture store, an art gallery, an abandoned train station, on a city bus, and, as you might expect, in a number of local bars. Offstage Thea...

  • Tortured craft

      There’s no pain like it. You can sit at a desk, typewriter, or computer, waiting, waiting, waiting for words that never come. Someone has said writing is just a ma...

  • Vertigo and destruction