September 9th, 2004 issue #0336

News

• A time for DVD: Grisham's Mickey to hit the shelves

  You probably never thought you'd hear "feel good hit of the summer" and "John Grisham" in the same sentence. Unfortunately, you're right. The saga of Mickey, the film shot ...

• Dry diff: Furniture store avoids a hit

  When the remnants of tropical storm Gaston hit Richmond on Monday, August 30, flash floods swept areas of the city. Nowhere was harder hit, however, than Shockoe Bottom, th...

• From 9 to 80: Nearly 2,000 women just did it

  A total of 1,809 women runners took to the road– Garth Road, to be precise– on Saturday morning, to compete in the Women's Four-Miler.

• Kerry's kid: Vanessa stumps at UVA, JMU

  UVA pundit Larry Sabato looked calm as Vanessa Kerry, daughter of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, spoke to UVA students at Newcomb Hall on Thursday, September 2...

• No problem? Moldering Galerie site gets new owners

  Believe it or not, there's a restaurant that has been waiting to open longer than Bodo's on the Corner.

• Roadless ruckus: When loggers, greenies unite

  Mark Woodall is an unlikely environmentalist. After all, he makes his living growing trees so he can cut them down. But Woodall and other small tree farmers are aligning th...

• Ruffled feathers: Condon protests NY tower plans

  By 2008, New York hopes to raise a mammoth tower in the space left when the twin towers were razed in 2001. One Virginia nature expert, however, worries that the new struct...

• Twin Oaks terror: Mysterious chopper buzzes commune

  Twin Oaks in Louisa is a peace-loving farm community with 100 members. But the usual calm was shattered August 31 when a low-flying helicopter terrified residents for about...