April 21st, 2005 issue #0416

April 21st, 2005

Friend or foe?: WNRN battles the word of God

PHOTOS BY JEN FARIELLO [email protected] Why have some WNRN broadcasts been coming out of just the left side of your car stereo? A notice on the local radio station's website has the answer: 91.9 WNRN in Charlottesville has been engaged in a heated battle with DC's 91.9 WGTS for the same space on the radio spectrum. Mono broadcasts, it turns out, are more resistant to interference from rival stations.

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How they stack up

Arbitron ratings fall 2004 Share WQMZ 95.1 Z-95 11.5 WMRA 103.5 NPR 7.7 WCYK 99.7 country 7.1 WINA 1070 AM 7.1 WWWV 97.5 3WV 7.1 WVTF 89.3 NPR 6.4 WHTE Hot 101.9 6.4 WCJZ 107.5 jazz 5.8

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Ratings game: WMRA claims non-com supremacy

Just 10 years after arriving to grab a bite out of the local market, an upstart Harrisonburg broadcaster has ousted the longtime public radio leader to become Charlottesville's #1 public radio station– for this round of ratings, anyway.

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The week in review

Most watched smoke signals: At the Vatican, where 115 cardinals gather to select Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany as successor to Pope John Paul II April 19. Ratzinger,...

Start the music! Baker's Palette ready for Fridays

It's no secret that the newly reopened (and usually sold-out) Paramount Theater has dramatically affected the dining scene on the Downtown Mall. Try to arrange a small priv...

Wheelie expensive: The high cost of 'free' parking

"Free parking." A lovely phrase, no? Since so many of the things we do are not free, it's great that at least we can stow our vehicles at no cost, right? Well, actua...

What do you think of WNRN?

Annie Stevenson: "I like their variety of music." Jay White: " I enjoy Acoustic Sunrise, but otherwise I don't listen to it that much." Djuanwa Parker: "I just...

Commercial construction permits

ALBEMARLE 4/1-4/8/05 Hollymead Town Center LLC, tenant upfit for Hair Cuttery, $14,000. University of Virginia Foundation, tenant upfit CRCRH laboratories, Emerging Techno...

$old

ALBEMARLE 3/1 PJP Building Three LLC to Downing & Stewart Real Estate LLC, unit in the PJP III condominiums, Peter Jefferson Place, Pantops, $661,050. March Mountain P...

Think big: Do-it-yourselfer did it

ADDRESS: 2515 Plank Road NEIGHBORHOOD: North Garden ASKING: $479,000 YEAR BUILT: 2003 SIZE: 3,850 fin. sq. ft., 825 unfin. LAND: 3.50 acres CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a p...

UPDATE - SOLD!

REAL ESATE UPDATE - SOLD! What happened to On the Blocks of the Past? APPEARED IN THE HOOK: May 27, 2004 in issue 0321 ADDRESS: 595 Old Drivers Road ASKING PRICE: $...

Property auctions

April 21 at 12:30pm at the Fluvanna Courthouse Property: 599 Beals Lane, Scottsville Debtor: unknown Amount owing: $68,615 Bidder brings: 10 percent of the sales price Info...

Sore subject: Herpes isn't a Greek god

When I was a freshman in college, my fellow pre-med friend, George, pointed at my face and laughed. I asked him what was so funny. He chanted, "You've got a herpes, ...

Fifeville headlines Film Festival

Three Charlottesville filmmakers whose work was recently featured at the Rotterdam Film Festival– Kevin Everson, Alexandria Searls, and Talmage Cooley– lead a l...
Look and listen The Interpreter's muffled message

It was quite a coup for director Sydney Pollack to get recent Oscar-winning actors Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn together in a movie. They're just the most obvious ind...
McElwee's march: Through Carolina, tobacco still rules

A documentary filmmaker who does his own narration, speaks in something close to a whisper, and searches for his own family history is celluloid Ambien, right? Wrong...

Clipse eclipsed: Blaze spins as Malice walks

Man Mountain Jr at Orbit Billiardsand Just Blaze/Clipseat Fry's Spring Beach ClubSaturday, April 16 Saturday I was torn. Man Mountain Jr. was playing at Orbit's on the Co...
Hotel Virginian: When Don Henley meets G. Love

Chris Jamison The VirginianApril 13 The Virginian was unusually lively last Wednesday night, bulging with bodies (mostly female) to an extent that would have been impressi...

Guru's past: Yogaville visit opens old wounds

A disgraced yoga master is coming to teach a workshop at Yogaville, the Buckingham County ashram of the late Sri Swami Satchidananda, who endured a sexual scandal of...
Checkered past: Embattled Griffin knows controversy

New information regarding the work history of Charlottesville City Schools Superintendent Scottie Griffin, whose short tenure here has been marked by high racial ten...
Katie and Caroline

The press was warned not to approach or try to chat up living history icon Caroline Kennedy when she came to town to receive the 2005 Emily Couric Women's Leadership...
Mold update: Samaritans tackle gutted house

NEWS- Mold update: Samaritans tackle gutted house A couple saves for years to buy a house in the ever-escalating Charlottesville market, only to see their dreams di...
New vaccine: Life-saving bill could die

A UVA pathologist is part of a world-wide research team that is reporting promising results with a new vaccine that could prevent millions of women from hearing the ...

Festival bound: Williamson's okay with Muskogee

It's not Sundance. And it's not even Slamdance. But one local company is feeling okay about Muskogee, an Oklahoma city whose Bare Bones International Film Festival f...

Comic relief: Voice of Cavs keeps 'em laughing

You've probably heard Mac McDonald's sports commentary on AM 1070. What you might not realize is that despite his constant presence there, he doesn't work for WINA. He's ac...

Contact Congress on mercury

Thank you for publishing the recent article about the connection between mercury poisoning and autism. [April 7 cover story: "Generation Hg? Is Autism puzzle solved?"] As t...
Kirby's an autism indie

"In other words, according to this logic, there's no proof excessive mercury exposure can cause the symptoms of mercury poisoning. " Brilliant ending to your April 7...
Train will save, not pave

Essayist Janis Jaquith [April 7 essay: "Trojan train: Keep D.C. a car commute away"] should be advocating for more and better passenger rail service to Washington, D.C., in...
Trains multiply choices

Having devoted many years to dealing with rail transportation issues, I must firmly disagree with the arguments that Janis Jaquith put forth in her April 7 essay ["Trojan t...

Cultural calendar, April 21-28, 2005

THURSDAY, April 21 ART Dramatic Art: Mark Ledbury, of the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, presents a lecture, "Drawing as Dra...