June 9th, 2005 issue #0423

News

• 149 skiddoo: Tree topples for Bodopening

  Bodo's owner Brian Fox isn't sure whether it's a good or bad omen that the massive tree in front of his new bagel bakery has just been removed, but he's sure the landlord m...

• Firing back: Axed exec a whistleblower?

  The departure of embattled former school superintendent Scottie Griffin made headlines for weeks. But what about the other public executive recently pushed from his post? I...

• Pizza-ville: Service back in off-limit zones

  When Eugene Williams learned that Domino's and Papa John's would not deliver pizza to certain predominantly black neighborhoods in Charlottesville, he was angry, and he cal...

• Recuse yourself! Public Defender asks Peatross to go

  [Editor's note: this story was omitted from some late editions– okay, all of them– so it is published here on the web.] A little over a month after Judge Paul "...

• Scoopage: Valley's Deep Throat tie

  The lips of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have long been sealed about the identity of Deep Throat, the source whose tattling brought down the Nixon White House. (Well, ac...

• South Lawn setback: Modernist architects off the job

  In the fall of 2001, with all sorts of fanfare, UVA announced it had hired famed New York architecture firm the Polshek Partnership to head up the long-awaited South Lawn p...

• Westerly win: Barrick gone to Portland biggie

  A year after signing on as news director for first one, then two new television stations, Ric Barrick is out of here. Barrick, who was not available for last week's story, ...