February 26th, 2004 issue #0308

February 26th, 2004

  • Black widow? A native son's death rattles Somerset

    In the mannered society governing flowing valleys and tree-covered hills of Orange County, phrases such as "blood tells'' and "pretty is as pretty does'' resonate. Gentility is paramount. Breeding is preferred. There are certain things just not done in this part of the South.

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Most convictions by a City Council candidate: Republican Kenneth Jackson has four for assault & battery– the last in 1995– and he wielded a knife in three o...

The Dish

Essays

  • Mel's woes: No Holocaust denier-- but close

    Mel Gibson's new film The Passion of the Christ– hailed by some as a powerful account of the last hours of Jesus' life, decried by others as an inflammatory screed wi...

Question of the Week

  • What are you doing over spring break?

      Emily Miksovic: "We don't get one because of soooo many snow days." Molly Deacon: "I'm going to play with my friend Chloe, and I'm going to play on the computer and...

Real Estate - $old

  • $old

    ALBEMARLE 11/13  Rosemary R. Dent to Bruce Campbell, 8.303 acres in two tracts on State Route 676, $530,000. R. Stuart and Alayna C. Hornsby to William E. Fox, 1121 ...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Magical: You can see for miles and miles

    ADDRESS: 4026 River Road, Faber ASKING: $1,295,000 SIZE: 5000 fin. sq. ft. YEAR BUILT: 1982 NEIGHBORHOOD: Nelson County CURB APPEAL: 9 out of a possible 10 LISTED BY: Jim B...

Real Estate - Update

  • Update

    What happened to "On the Blocks" of the past? APPEARED IN THE HOOK: September 12, 2002 issue #32 ADDRESS: 2850 Morgantown Road ASKING PRICE: $399,000 SELLING PRICE: $395,50...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • Property auctions

    March 3, at 4:30pm, at the Louisa County Courthouse Property: 748 Eastham Road, Bumpass Debtor: Elizabeth E. and Gordon C. Dick Jr. Amount owing: unknown Bidder brings: 10...

Movie Reviews

  • Excruciating: The Gospel according to Mel

    Christ, you know it ain't easy.– John Lennon When seeing The Passion of the Christ it's crucial to understand that "crucifixion" and "excruciating" (and "crucial") co...

Music Reviews

News

  • "Hotel Charlottesville"-- Capshaw to help Danielson?

    " Up ahead in the distance I saw a shimmering light My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night"–The Eagles California-based devel...

  • Fatally flawed: Lawyers ask end to Rice case

    Lawyers for a man once accused of slashing two hikers to death in Shenandoah National Park asked a federal judge last week to bar prosecutors from trying to charge him agai...

  • Gagged: T-shirt settlement kept quiet

    Fred Newsom had predicted this might happen. He and his son, eighth-grader Alan Newsom, settled a $150,000 First Amendment lawsuit against the Albemarle County School Board...

  • Lost Labs: Missing dogs fan theft fears

    Damie, Louie, and Luna are missing. These happy-go-lucky Labrador retrievers disappeared within days of each other, and at least two of the owners are convinced someone nab...

  • Sky plow: City goes high tech

    High above the earth, the satellite orbits, tracking the movement of specialized government vehicles. Back on earth, detailed data from that satellite appear on a map proje...

  • Ticking clock: Decision on gay fraternity delayed

    Ten months since its formation, the fate of Out on Rugby, a group of UVA students attempting to establish a gay-friendly fraternity, still hangs in the balance. On Tuesday,...

  • Town troubles: Louisa loses another chief

    It ain't easy for Louisa to hang on to her chief. John Wilson made it almost a year before he resigned the town's top police job last week, a pretty good record in this bur...

The Brazen Careerist

Strange But True

  • Go get em!: Doggie rabbit dreams?

      DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. Dognapping Rover starts moving his legs, ears, whiskers, wagging his tail, whining. Certainly looks like he's dreaming, but how...

Facetime

  • The ultimate: Steven Braden sells and sells

    When the next $10 million property sells around here, a well-placed realtor or two will pocket some serious change. But what about the folks who sell houses for the rest of...

Hotseat

  • Not Cox's: Hamilton dances to her own beat

    (The third in our series on City Council candidates) Words are the sea that Kendra Hamilton swims in. In her official job, she's an editor of the Fairfax-based magazine Bla...

Letters

  • Abortion safety matters

    Published February 26, 2004, in issue #0308 of The Hook Regarding the comment about the "little effect" of Pro-Choice Alliance lobby day [February 5: "4Better or Worse"]...

  • ELF never killed anyone

    As an environmentalist, I cannot condone the Hollymead incident ["Ecoterrorism: ELF 'targets' Hollymead Center," News, February 19, 2004], and I consider it highly irrespon...

  • Is Wood gonna shoot?

    In response to the article titled "Ecoterrorism: ELF 'targets' Hollymead Center" [News, February 19, 2004], we have a few points: In order for the word "terrorist" to be va...

  • Let's define our terms

    Last week, you used the term "ecoterrorist" with regard to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). A note on semantics: The Department of Defense defines terrorism as "The unlawf...

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