July 18th, 2002 issue #0124

July 18th, 2002

Poison Ivy: If you build it, they will scream

"Growth may be inevitable, but ugliness is not."From the Scenic Virginia preamble. Ivy cherishes the notion that it's a rural community. The scenery along Route 250 west is mostly white-fenced fields and woods. Its subdivisions are hidden from 250, unlike the more obvious sprawl attacking Crozet, its designated-growth neighbor to the west. The village of Ivy is nothing more than a post office, a nursery, a couple of gas stations and Duner's, a pricey, culinary oasis for affluent country folk.

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The week in review

Best case of landing on one's feet: Eavesdropper Edmund A. Matricardi, who resigned as head of Virginia's Republican Party, is hired by South Carolina Republicans. N...

Eyes on pies

It's official: the former Papagallo space at Seminole Plaza across from Forest Lakes will house Pizza Bella North, according to Christine Manning, who co-owns the ori...

Raw ambition: Get an Ivy League paycheck without the ivy

By Penelope Trunk I recently read in the New York Times about a study that found that the best indicator of how much money you will make is not where you went to college bu...

Foreclosure Auctions

REAL ESTATE- Foreclosure Auctions Published 7/18/02 in Issue #24 of the Hook July 18, 2002, at 10am at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 5 Pinehurst Lane, Palmyra...

SOLD!

Published July 18, 2002 in issue #24 of The Hook Update Address: 772 Ridge Street Seen in The Hook : 2/7/02 Asking: $125,900 Contract price: $125,400 Days on market: ...

If only... Charm compensates for location

Asking: $245,000 Size: 1,737 fin. sq. ft., 1,158 unfin. sq. ft. Year built: 1948 Address: 1016 Long Street Neighborhood: Locust Grove Curb Appeal: 6 of a possible 10 Listed...

Mousey movie: Stuart Little 2 packs laughs for little ones

As Sony summer sequels go, Stuart Little 2 is better than Men in Black II. At least it seems better because we had such big hopes for MIBII while expectations for SL2 were ...

Buttah at Orbit

By Damani Harrison The weather lately has got me all messed up. Monday I was suffering from a near-migraine type sinus headache caused by the changes in pressure and humidi...
Jim Waive at the Blue Moon Diner

By Amy Briggs The products of serious effort have a certain mystique. Well-written correspondence, elaborate tattoos, quilts, graffitied tableaux, log cabins, tended garden...

Blocked!: UVA kicked off local discussion

After a flurry of obscene postings on his website, gonzo free speech advocate Waldo Jaquith found himself facing an usual charge: censorship. Someone (or someones) had been...
Ivy condos: White Gables set for development

By Mythili Rao
Outgassed: Chevron operators stunned by UVA buy

By Mythili Rao To spruce up one of its more prominent entrances, UVA has bought and intends to demolish the gas station at the corner of Ivy Road and Emmet Street. In late ...
West Main Street police blotter: Van pinched; Girl, interrupted

Workers on West Main Street are used to hearing the scream of emergency sirens from the nearby fire station. But recently, even those who don't look up for a fire tr...

Worms, bugs, and kisses

Q: Any truth to the old tapeworm remedy of fasting for three days and then holding a bowl of food (soured milk?) up to your mouth so when the hungry worm smells it a...

Hot type: Letterpress printing goes glam?

By Elizabeth Kiem "He has a new book out," people say, meaning that an author has written a new work that has been mass printed, bound, and stocked on shelves in bookstore...

Letters on the Rivanna Trail controversy

Gimme! I enthusiastically nominate Shirley Presley for this year's coveted "Mine! Mine! Mine! Award for Vigilant Possessiveness." [July 4 cover story: "Trail Nix](http://ww...

Camp naked: Swim, dance, volley in the nude

Alternative lifestyles (as well as newspapers) have become so well assimilated into our culture that they barely raise eyebrows anymore. It seems there’s a community read...
Child's play: Relax-- look between your legs

By Elizabeth Kiem
Cosmic art: A gaudy visual quick-fix

From a distance, Micah Stebbins’ sky/cosmos-infused oil paintings look like marbles. Cosmic swaths of sky blue, sea blue, purple, and milky white wrap around his canvases...
Sew what? Needling the big guys

By Mara Rockliff
Who's who? Confusion among the ruins

For the past 14 summers, Four County Players has partnered with the Barboursville Vineyards to put on a show that’s worthy of a good picnic and a good bottle of wine. The...
Wild things! Saving nature for the future

You can almost hear the screech as the life-like model of a bald eagle approaches a tree-top twist of branches in the main gallery at the Virginia Museum of Natural History...
World hop: Ph Balance goes au naturel

By Mark Grabowski