January 6th, 2005 issue #0401

January 6th, 2005

Extreme makeover-- Paramount edition: Tarting up a tattered theater

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Faves in high places: What part of the Paramount looks best?

Kristen Gleason, Paramount director of community relations: "I really love the paint motif on the barrel vaults in the lobby. The only reason we have that motif is there was one little section leftthey were painted over with redand that was original...it was so close to being lost forever."

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Room for all: A vestibule by any other name

If you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket and you're considering donating it to the Paramount, then you, too, can have a piece of the theater named in your honor. Consult the list below to see what's already taken. (Board member Michael Gaffney jokes, "I'm getting a switch plate.") The Mamie Atkinson Jessup and Claude A. Jessup Lobby Hunter J. Smith Ballroom Suzanne Jessup Brooks Founders Suite Diane & Paul Wood Administrative Offices

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Top billing: What show are you looking forward to?

Volunteer usher Meg Reichman: Marvin Hamlisch. House manager Alex Caines: The Peking Acrobats. Production manager Doug Leffert: "It was Tony Bennett." Assistant to the executive director Sandy DeKay: "Movies! I had seen Wizard of Oz on the big screen before, but it was great seeing Casablanca surrounded by a packed house."

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The week in review

Worst natural disaster: A 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean December 26 unleashes tsunamis in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and eight other countries, leavi...

Changing of the Photophile guard

In this issue, the Hook welcomes photographer Lauren Brooks who is grabbing the brass ring from longtime "Photophile" party photographer Lincoln Ross Barbour. Among her ass...

Gods-to-go: Ambrosia comes to Nellysford

As soon as I walked in the door of the new Ambrosia Bakery and Deli in Nellysford, I knew my post-holiday fast was foiled. I followed the smells of honey and garlic ...

Grave situation: Don't landfill the Tsunami bodies

In the calculus of human misery it is impossible to grasp the cost of the tsunami that hit Southern Asia. At some point our ability to respond emotionally is overwhe...

Who'd win a fight between the Paramount and Live Arts?

Gene Osborn: "Live Arts. Don't mess with Big Mama." Cicely Shelton: "The Paramount, because nothing can beat class and grace." Keriann Sloat: "The Paramount. They...

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ALBEMARLE 11/16 Peggy T. Williams to Laura J. Moss, 2.282 acres near Milton, $6,500. Stephen J. White and Sandra Getchell-White to Edward P. Kirby Jr., 146 Scarborough Pla...

Off the Block!- SOLD

APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 15, 2004 in issue 0328 ADDRESS: 729 Northwood Avenue DAYS TO CONTRACT: 93 ASKING: $779,000 SOLD FOR: $732,500 SELLER'S AGENT: Judy Campbell of Mc...

The circle: Doesn't stay unbroken for long

ADDRESS: 2636 Jefferson Park Circle ASKING: $389,000 BUILDING: 1846 sq. ft, 1,123 sq. ft. unfinished LAND: 0.29 acres YEAR BUILT: circa 1930 NEIGHBORHOOD: Fry's Spri...

Property auctions

January 6, at 11am, at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 1725 Old Forge Road, Hessian Hills, Charlottesville Debtor: Dewey B. Morris and Agustin E. Rodriquez Amount...

Cut off: How much booze is too much?

During the holidays, people were chug-a-lugging along, drinking eggnog with rum, eating fruit cake with more rum, sipping wine, and downing martinis. Most people kno...

Family Affair: A Hunter gathering

Blake Hunter, Peter Hunter, Debbie Hunter, Tom O'Connor, Paul Rosner, Teswar Wood at Twisted Branch Tea BazaarJanuary 1 There was this house, a huge log cabin with various...
Slim pickings: Rasta la vista, baby

Shayar and Krooshal Forceat Miller'sJanuary 1

'Larger than life': Double loss leaves community grieving

As 2004 came to an end many holiday festivities in Charlottesville were tempered with sadness following the deaths of R.B. Smith and Karen Silverman. While any loss is diff...
Embracing 'J': UVA debuts two-week term

What college student wouldn't jump at the chance to leave the parties and ski slopes to head back to the dorm in early January to pick up some extra academic credits before...
Free range: Bambi vandalizes Whole Foods

Whole Foods is committed to the freshest organic and natural products. But the deer that crashed through its door last week was not part of a new marketing plan notching up...
Lavishing: <I>Progress</I> employees get $8 gift

Is it really better to give than receive? For unhappy recipients at the Daily Progress, there's truth to that old adage. The local daily's parent company, Media Gene...
Story zone: Big writing contest strikes again

It's time for you to take your seat in front of the keyboard and begin to cast your magic spell. Tell your story. The Hook Fiction Contest is back. Prizes and such The gra...
Unsavory gag: Hat at Spencer's spurs boycott

Jessica McGrane was looking for something funny and kitschy for the immature people on her Christmas list– namely her 20-something brothers and boy cousins. Naturally...

The Apprentice: This show shows women their place

I have never seen such an honest, unabashed portrait of the difficulties women face in corporate America as I have seen in The Apprentice.

Catching rays: Conditioning works underwater too

DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK BY BILL SONES AND RICH SONES, PH.D. Q. What's the trick to safely hand-petting a stingray in the wild? –J. Cousteau

Ski seen: Wintergreener has sights on Olympics

Skiing, especially with the near-70s temperatures earlier this week, may not top the list of Virginia sports. But Lesley Lesmasurier just might change that– if...

Breaking barriers: Stevie Jay comes home

Stevie Jay smiles at his audience and coyly refers to the performance they're about to see as "a multi-chakra extravaganza." Like nearly everything else about his su...

Land not worth the horrors

Thank you for the recent story about what has happened to The McGraths at their Lower Sherwood Farm in Keene [December 16 cover story: "Blenheim brouhaha: She Sherwood like...
Wings not worth the horrors

I would like to thank the Hook for the article in the November 18 paper about People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' effort in Charlottesville to highlight the suffer...