April 11th, 2002 issue #0110
April 11th, 2002
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Spinning trouble
By Bill Ramsey
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Best item from St. Anne-Belfield’s auction catalog: A week in Mustique in a five-bedroom villa designed for Britain’s Princess Margaret, including roundtrip private jet...
Essays
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You have male
By Karen Lehrman
Real Estate - On the Block
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No swinging cats
If you want to buy a house in Charlottesville on a shoestring budget, there’s really not much out there. Things are so bad that realtors are writing solicitation letters ...
Movie Reviews
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Panic Perfection
By Cole Smithey
Music Reviews
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Lay your money down
Boa and Vandyke Brown at the Outback Lodge By James Graham
News
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Closing the door
Here’s what Greg Smith knows about going into detox for alcohol and cocaine addictions: if an addict is down and out and ready to enter a program, he has a better chance ... -
Prof presses wine suit
Daniel Ortiz’s wine-loving friends were having a problem getting their boutique wines in from out-of-state.“You can’t bring it in from California or D.C.— only four... -
The pied Baker
In 1998, Tom Baker made a commercial touting Charlottesville’s Guaranty Bank, of which he was president. In a cozy living room setting, Baker said community was as import... -
Time for dish?
It hadn’t been a good week for Adelphia Communications. First, Adelphia Business Solutions, which was just spun off from Adelphia Communications in Janu...
Strange But True
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Hot on your tail
Q. I read somewhere once that every human has a “plume,” a sort of invisible trail that follows you. Is this true, and if so, what’s it made of? –Not a peacock ...
Letters
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No value in greed
In The Hook No. 1 [February 7, 2002], there was an article about an upcoming book-signing by Craig Winn and others. The book was about the birth, life, and death of Value A...
Cultural preview
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Better all the time
Face the facts: men are still working their way out of the cave emotionally. From Adam in the Garden of Eden to Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners to Al Bundy of Married Wit... -
Cold comfort
In a free-speech nation (as we want to believe ours is), there are many ways for radical thinkers to make a point. Letters to the editor, calls to dial-in radio or TV shows... -
Divine orders?
Lea Ann Douglas has spent more than a year writing and researching her new play, The Neophyte, which opens next weekend at the Helms Theater. An M.F.A. student in UVA’s D... -
In the middle of Mayberry
I have a friend from Northern Virginia who teases me about living in the sleepy television town of “Mayberry” where friends and neighbors love to pull up a chair on She... -
Lean in close
In lieu of the typically prolix, and not-always-helpful statements of intent which artists like to hang alongside their work, Adam O’Neal substitutes a dictionary definit... -
Professional rockers
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This old tree
Former president Ronald Reagan’s uttered one of his more laughable statements on the campaign trail in 1980. Obviously not much of a nature man despite all those pix of h...