March 20th, 2003 issue #0211

March 20th, 2003

Crowded house: It may be cozy, but should it be illegal?

Published March 20, 2003, in issue #0211 of The Hook BY LISA PROVENCE [email protected] Catharine Anas lives in the same Piedmont Avenue house where she grew up. In the '40s and '50s, the area was a close-knit neighborhood whose families knew and kept an eye out for each other.

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The week in review

Worst St. Pat's Day: President George Bush gives Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq before the U.S. attacks at "a time of our choosing." Next worst threat besides immine...

Tra-tra trattoria: Is it Water Street or Calabria?

As soon as Dish got a whiff of new Italian cuisine in the ever-changing building on Water Street, we were quick to sniff out the story. Ugo and Francesco Benincasa are the ...

Documented: Riding across America with Diego

I'd never planned to do much traveling by Greyhound, particularly not coast-to-coast. Then again, I hadn't exactly planned to have my car and all my worldly possessions sto...

Foreclosure auctions

March 21, 2003, at noon at the Louisa County Courthouse Property: 161 North Anna Drive Debtor: unknown Originally owing: $57,900 Bidder brings: $4,000 or 10 percent of the...

Sold!

CHARLOTTESVILLE 2/20 J. Clay and Mina S. Ford to Richard J. Brewer Jr. and Rhonda E. Quagliana, 117 Westwood Circle, $148,000. 2/21 Charles S. and Carolyn C....

Off the Block

Address: 208 Sixth Street NW Appeared in the Hook : December 5, 2002 in issue #44 Asking Price: $258,000 Selling price: $239,000 Neighborhood: Starr Hill Days on marke...

Hoof it: Bag the commute, save your life

ASKING: $619,000 SIZE: 2665 fin. sq. ft. YEAR BUILT: 1910 ADDRESS: 428 Second Street, NE NEIGHBORHOOD: North Downtown CURB APPEAL: 8 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: L...

Catchy : Formula works again for King

Dreamcatcher sucks. Not the movie, the title. Maybe if Stephen King could make up better titles, he'd sell more books, right? It's catchy, no pun intended, and original, bu...

Number 3, and counting $-- DMB hits the road

It would be news if the Dave Matthews Band were not planning a summer tour. That story isn't going to happen and no one seems happier than Matthews himself. "I'm always fir...

Fiddlin' around: Irish fans dance and jam

Ryegrass Rollersat Miller'sSunday, March 16 Sunday night was St. Patty's Eve, a night usually reserved for anti-pinch prep talks and little else. But despite the la...
Smartrock: Music to think by

Marzaks with Stephen Barlingat the MudhouseFriday, March 14 "Smartrock," that genre defined by catchy songs with erudite lyrics, was alive and kicking Friday night ...

Bank scandal: Check-kiter is 'extremely sorry'

The allegedly fraudulent scheme that bashed a local bank for $2.4 million continues to rattle the local economy. Earlier this week, it was revealed that Ivy Industries, a l...
Greenleaf nab: Suspect probably not the serial rapist

The woman was sitting outside Christian's Pizza before noon on March 17 when she saw the man she says attacked her December 30 in Greenleaf Park. She called police on her c...
No quick fix: Locust bridge down for the count

If traffic on Route 250 in recent days is any example, Locust Avenue now boasts a bridge over troubled drivers– drivers stuck in traffic generated by the bridge's Mar...
Pay-day: Sponsors fled from Fridays

As complaints mount [see letters in this issue–ed.] over the decision to begin levying an entry charge for a formerly free event, Fridays After Five organizers are bl...
Recycling R.I.P.: County wants to dump losing program

For nine years, Albemarle County has made recycling easy: Residents toss glass, plastic, and aluminum into one clear plastic bag, and trash haulers pick it up. But no longe...
Tunnel vision? Terrace plan would deep-six JPA

The view across Jefferson Park Avenue from UVA's New Cabell Hall is hardly postcard quality. A cluster of scraggly trees does little to soften the 250-space parking lot who...

Dog with remote: Terr loves Lassie

Q. If dogs got their paws on the channel selector, what programs would they watch? W. Wegman A. When well-known magician and skeptic James "Amazing" Randi got wind...

Anarchist of Love: The conviction of Andrew Holden

Imagine this: A self-proclaimed anarchist chains himself to an Omni Hotel elevator to protest the corporation's failure to pay its employees a "living wage." Police arrest ...
Sweet story: May's book preserves traditions

Like many folk traditions, the process of making sorghum molasses the "old fashioned way" is labor intensive. It takes the whole community to harvest the cane, press the th...

Baldacci: He's already living the fantasy

Best known for his mega-selling novels, David Baldacci also is a philanthropic kind of guy. In fact, the Virginia Press Association just named him Virginian of the Year, "a...

Don't divide Fridays

I cannot even begin to tell you how bad an idea I think the proposed changes to "Fridays After Five" are [News, "Freebie no more," March 13] (http://readthehook.com/931...
Exposing Northern's "story"

As the most frequent victim of your Fearless Consumer (three hits over a six-month period) [September 26, 2002: "Weitzner Properties: All three refunds– MIA," Januar...
Families will turn off Fridays

What a shame to put an end to a great family event. Because that's what will happen if the Charlottesville Downtown Foundation starts charging admission and banning food fr...

Charming: Get down with Bishop Allen

It’s a tossup whether it’s more enjoyable to read the liner notes to the indie-pop group Bishop Allen’s first release, Charm School, than it is to listen to their mus...
Dreamy: Magic rules CHS production

It was an annual spring ritual when I was growing up for the teachers at my elementary school to march the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades across town to watch the dress re...
Fasten your belt: Ups and downs in Des Moines

“I like plays that are not too neat, too finished, too presentable,” says Charles Mee, a playwright, novelist, and historian. “My plays are broken, jagged, filled wit...
Making meaning: Does war validate us?

A historian cited by war correspondent Chris Hedges in his new book has deduced that in the entire history of humankind, there have been just 29 years of global peace. Man,...
Varied: Art motifs imitate music

Artist Farida Hughes name-checks composers Edward Elgar and J.S. Bach before she mentions any hotshot canvas jockeys, and it’s this interest in musical form which loosely...
Walk the Walk: Get moving to save lives

Move your body. Save a life. For the next two Saturdays, community members will have a chance to join the fight against two of the most pervasive killers around: breast can...