October 28th, 2004 issue #0343

October 28th, 2004

Six film festival stories

FILM- Filmed art: Spice Bush bends 'truth' Department of confusion: Charlottesville filmmaker Kevin Everson says that the audience for his new film, The Spice Bush, can expect "a false narrative." By way of explanation, he says, "Every photo, video, or film is a lie, because it's only a perspective of the author." Though Everson studied fine art and photography in Ohio, the UVA art prof says he was soon drawn to expressing himself in a "time-based" medium.

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4Better Or Worse

The week in review

Worst loss for Albemarle: Charlotte Humphris, who served on the Board of Supervisors from 1989 to 2001 and was its first female chair, dies October 24 at age 73. Worst loss...

The Dish

BazCones: Cool addition to sweets scene

Will 2004 be remembered as the year of the frozen dessert? We've already witnessed the openings of two new gelato cafés: Milano at the Main Street Market and Splend...

Essays

Dems everywhere: Or so she thought...

It was one of those sweet moments when I get to feel like a genius– something that's only likely to happen when someone else is obviously a dope. It's all relative. E...
Fraud-busters: 3,140 polls better than one

There's no such thing as a national election in the United States. This may come as a surprise to people who believe that Americans will vote for a president on November 2 ...

Question of the Week

Does the film festival still excite you?

Rob Teweles: "Yes! I'm thrilled to have such a nice cultural event in town. I just wish I had more time to attend." Dan Nahas: "I don't know what you mean by 'still' bec...

Real Estate - $old

$old

ALBEMARLE 8/24 Mir Taqi and Fazila S. Ahmadi to Peter B. and Ann VanGaever Toman, 432 Wynridge Drive, Minor Townhouses, $175,000. 8/27 Vicki Coleman to William L. ...

Real Estate - On the Block

Easy as ABC: One-room school transformed

ADDRESS: 1314 Reas Ford Road ASKING: $199,900 BUILDING: 1,264 fin. sq. ft. LAND: 2.01 acres YEAR BUILT: 1916 NEIGHBORHOOD: Earlysville CURB APPEAL: 7 of 10 LISTED BY: Donna...

Real Estate - Update

What happened to on the blocks of the past?

APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 1, 2004 in issue 0326 ADDRESS: 109 James River Road, Scottsville ASKING PRICE: $247,000 SELLING PRICE: $237,000 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 48 SELLER'S AG...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property Auctions

October 28, at 9am, at the Fluvanna County Courthouse Property: 2.0 acres at 1434 Salem Church Road, Palmyra Debtor: Janice W. and Timothy W. Chapman Amount owing: $76,500...

Movie Reviews

Light Ray: Gentleman sings the blues

As happened with Halle Berry and Charlize Theron, a good actor who's generally been undervalued as a lightweight finally gives a performance that can't be ignored in Ray. P...

Music Features

King Wilkie: Bow when you say that

Published October 28, 2004, in issue 0343 of the Hook King Wilkie and Duende at Starr HillFriday, October 22 BY MARK GRABOWSKI [email protected] Oh King Wilkie, how do...

Music Reviews

An improvement: Nowhere to go but up

Particle Starr Hill Music HallSunday, October 25 This Particle wasn't the same Particle I saw before. There was more than a particle of difference. This Particle was more ...

News

'100% preventable': Reeve didn't have to die

For several days after Christopher Reeve died on Sunday, October 10, the cause of his death– a blood infection resulting from a bedsore– was all over the news. ...
An 'abomination': Mystery ad shocks Progress readers

"A detestable act. An abomination. Wickedness. Disgusting. Gross sin!" Such was the copy of a quarter-page ad that greeted Daily Progress readers October 24 and 25. And to ...
Ballot cloggers: Couric's bill leads amendments

It's a pretty serious matter to change the state constitution, and unwitting Virginia voters will be asked to do just that when they go to the polls November 2. Unwitting b...
DNA details: Why the racial analysis?

The Daily Progress' lead headline jumped off the stands on September 28. "Rapist's racial profile confirmed," boomed the bold print at top of page one. Had there been a bre...
Goode Weed: Dems see wide thievery

The Al Weed campaign staff can understand the allure of its campaign signs in some collegiate quarters. After all, the Democratic Fifth District congressional candidate's n...
Mysterious bus cruises town

At first glance, it looked like the Bush campaign had hit Charlottesville. But when the "Yes Bush Can '04" bus stopped on the Downtown Mall at Second Street October 21, wit...
Nelson County: Off the (weather) map

As hurricanes peppered multiple coasts a few weeks ago, Nelson County resident Sue Stillman wanted to know the paths of the approaching storms. It's understandable that Nel...
Valley wrangle: Museum wins mill squabble

Over the objections of preservationists, the Frontier Culture Museum has signed a deal to buy a historic Shenandoah County mill that it will move to a reconstructed 1850s-s...

The Brazen Careerist

Uncovered: Insurance shapes job hunt

We knew a year in advance that my husband's job would end this fall. So he conducted a fairly typical job hunt for a while, but his searching went into overdrive when we fo...

Sports Doctor

SPORTS WRAP

Biggest "Must Win" Game: After facing adversity for the first time all season, the UVA football team shows some character with a convincing 37-16 road triumph over the Duke...

Strange But True

Free ride: Tailgaters in line for speed

DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. How are birds, fish, and race car drivers on to the same traveling trick? -Nemo A. They're all tailgaters, hitching something ...

Facetime

On the fly: Ad man jumps into filming

"I'm sort of water obsessed, I guess," admits Jamie Howard, whose five-year plan includes tarpon fishing, examining the erosion of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana, and s...
Unseparated Woodsman: Will Bacon sizzle as pedophile?

Legend has it that anybody can be connected to Hollywood icon Kevin Bacon within six degrees of separation. Those who knew Nicole Kassell during her days at St. Anne's-Belf...

Hotseat

Wanted in Tibet: But will Angels play in Peoria?

"I wish I'd had an eighth grade Citizen Kane moment," says Academy Award-winner Paul Wagner, who swears he got into filmmaking by chance, around the time his graduate caree...

Letters

Thomson has absolutist logic

I agree with Dr. J. Anderson Thomson Jr. [September 30 cover story] that religious fanaticism, coupled with our human tendency toward violent herd mentality, is one of the ...
Faith did some healing

I found J. Anderson Thomson Jr.'s [September 30 cover story] about Islamic terrorism to be an interesting discussion of the evolutionary nature of group violence. I did, ho...
Religion's not the only divider

The [September 30] cover article "Why They Kill: Male Bonding + Religion = Disaster" exemplifies the divisiveness that the author claims to want to overcome. The title alre...
What the Bleep does reviewer know?

Steve Warren's review of What the Bleep ["Freaky film," October 9, 2004] ironically proved one of the premises the film asks us to consider: that we limit our experience of...

Cultural preview

Cultural calendar, October 28-November 4, 2004

THURSDAY, October 28 ART Going Dada: Leah Dickerman, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at Washington's National Gallery, speaks on...