January 30th, 2003 issue #0204

January 30th, 2003

Boxed in: A boy's lost week

This week's cover story is an edited first-person account of the kidnapping and sexual abuse Martin Andrews endured in 1973. He wrote it at the request of the Critical Incident Analysis Group. A little-known UVA-based consortium of academics and other professions, the Group studies public responses to terrorism and crime, and is dedicated to improving the public's ability to deal with "critical incidents." The current executive director is Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D., Associate Professor of Research at the UVA School of Medicine.

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Going public: Andrews talks, and the governor listens

For nearly 30 years, Martin Andrews kept silent about a hideous crime that happened to him in Tidewater. But last year he learned that the man who repeatedly raped him and kept him imprisoned in an underground box is scheduled to be released from prison in April. The 43-year-old Andrews swung into action. Now a computer technician living North Miami, Florida, Andrews collected his vacation time and began making frequent trips to Virginia to lobby top state officials and tell his story to the media– all in an effort to prevent the scheduled release of his attacker.

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The week in review

Best sign of new blood in the city Democratic machine: Josh Chernila, Waldo Jaquith's campaign manager in his bid for City Council last year, is elected vice chairman of th...

Gold medal pizza? Thai pie vies for prize

When Bistro 151 owner Anna Wallaker entered her Thai pie in the International Pizza Contest at the eleventh hour, she didn't expect to win a free trip to Vegas. But on Marc...

Roe v. Wade: Status quo serves us well

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the many observances of the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, was the relative ...

Foreclosure auctions

February 3, 2003, at 10am at the Greene County Courthouse Property: 311 E. Daffodil Road, Ruckersville Debtor: unknown Originally owing: $41,778.55 Bidder brings: 10 perce...

Sold!

CHARLOTTESVILLE 1/8 Richard H. Fife to University of Virginia Real Estate Foundation, parcel on Monroe Lane, $224,000. 1/10 Claridge Court LLC to Margaret G....

Sale Withdrawn

Featured in issue #18 of the Hook on June 6, 2002 5 Steubin Lane Key West ASKING: $349,000 SIZE: 2,392 finished sq. ft., 676 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1984 ADDRESS: 5 Steub...

Mixed message: A jarring blend of old and new

ADDRESS: 1700 Rugby Avenue ASKING: $498,000 SIZE: 3,100 fin. sq. ft., 800 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1938 NEIGHBORHOOD: Rugby CURB APPEAL: 7 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Patsy S...

Too clever by half: "The Recruit" fools everybody

That Colin Farrell will be a major star has never been questioned by the 12 people who saw Tigerland, but no one has been able to answer the When? question. The War Zone an...

Metal lineup rocks the Rose

Are You...?, Bonestorm, and Municipal Wasteat Tokyo RoseFriday, January 24 True metal was born in '70s Britain, when Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Co. took the slu...
More than OK: Afro beat band wins converts

Antibalasat Starr Hill Music HallFriday, January 24 Antibalas first brought afro-beat to Starr Hill in September, 2002. At that time very few people knew of the 12-piece b...

Activist school: Ivy kids learn to fight The Man

For nearly two years, the Ivy Community Association has battled Faulconer Construction's plans to move its heavy-equipment operations to historic Morgantown Road. With a me...
Clean slate: Capshaw's Fifeville apartments break ground

The last vestiges of the urban forest that long provided the backdrop to Union Station– home to Amtrak and the recently departed Wing Wing Café– were felled la...
Don't tread on them: Libertarians rally round Arby's flag

Tom Slonaker has lowered the Arby's flag at his Forest Lakes restaurant– the one that led Albemarle County to take him to court– but he hasn't given up the batt...
Going in circles: Roundabouts come round again

Remember the big plans a couple of years ago for a roundabout at the intersection of Preston Avenue and Ridge Street? That project may have faded into the woodwork, but the...
Mellow Pursuit: Trivia night keeps 'em guessing

"The answer is...Professor Moriarity" "Moriarity!" The second Moriarity comes out in a deep echoing voice, followed by laughter rolling over the microphone. It's Tri...

Pals with Hal: Getting it on with Mac

Q. What if you hooked up with a powerful online computer as an e-mail pal. Sex aside, could you have a "meaningful" relationship with a machine? B. Gates A. Going ...

Bridging the divide: Resolving conflict from Prospect to Belfast

"How can a community of learning really thrive without fully immersing itself into its surrounding environment?" asks John Kiess. While some UVA students are content to liv...

Will Morris: Greene County sheriff rides into sunset-- maybe

Judges, movie stars, pro basketball players, and congressmen have all felt the sting of law enforcement when speeding through Greene County. Recently, five-term Sheriff Wil...

Yo, UVA! Do the right thing!

At my house, or probably anyone's house, if I wanted to build a new indoor basketball court because my old one seemed small compared to the neighbors', and then add room fo...

Causing a tumult: Wilson's "dear boy" raised eyebrows

The powerful advisor. That ephemeral figure who stoops to whisper into the ear of the almighty and then slinks back into the shadowy recesses off the Oval Office. Yes, ther...
Get high: Scale the heights at Rocky Top

Cold winter weekends are killers. The kids are climbing the walls, whining about being bored, and driving me crazy. Just as I’m about to pull my hair out and run into the...
Holy tornado! Via and friends blow you away

On a shelf near the top of my bookcase, above the unread copy of Anna Karenina, but below the dog-eared Naked by David Sedaris, sits my collection of CD’s– the spoi...
Not a crock: Shipwreck yielded porcelain treasures

Probably everyone at one time or another believed or hoped that their grandparents’ old geisha-and-bony-tree-branch vase was really a Ming treasure, and that they’d str...
Opere's opus: Garcia Lorca in his native tongue

“I’ve been doing these plays for more than 20 years now,” Fernando Operé explains, talking about the UVA Spanish Theater Group that he launched soon after he came to...
Worldly women: Globe-hopping grads tell all

Through its latest evening lecture series, “Virginia 2020: Women Engaged with the World,” the University of Virginia’s Women’s Center continues its mission to enlig...

Purple gain: Frances Brand's house gets painted

Has The Artist Formerly Known as Prince bought a house in Charlottesville? Why else would anyone paint the traditional white cottage at 111 Washington Avenue a shocking, Ea...