June 30th, 2005 issue #0426
June 30th, 2005
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To work, to excellence. Doing your job
Early in life, everything is possible– It's a time to dream big dreams. Stack the dreams like cord-wood; there are infinite possibilities: a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Most widely decried Supreme Court decision: Virginia legislators scurry to get laws in place forbidding eminent domain seizures for developers like the one the high court u...
Editor's Note
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'On Architecture'
The Hook is proud to unveil a new feature, "On Architecture," which promises to stimulate discussion of the built environment in America's #1 city. Author William Richards,...
The Dish
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Eggs-travagant: Caviar gets green light
Until about a month ago, there were few, if any, eateries in town offering diners the most and extravagant of epicurean indulgences: caviar. But thanks to Blue Light Grill'...
Question of the Week
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What's the toughest job you've ever hed?
Eric Horton: "Picking tobacco in Connecticut when I was in high school. They have the best broadleaf tobacco." Antonia LoLordo: "Being a philosophy professor– all t...
Real Estate - $old
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ALBEMARLE 4/21 Esther M. and George H. Bacot Jr. to Shirley M. Levine, 0.178 acres at 1205 Stonegate Way, Stonegate at Western Ridge, Crozet, $319,500. Clint and Br... -
REAL ESTATE- Update- SOLD!
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: April 14, 2005 in issue 0415 ADDRESS: 106 Vincennes Road, Key West ASKING PRICE: $349,900 SELLING PRICE: $338,000 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 28 SELLER'S AGENT:...
Real Estate - On the Block
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Got stuff? Don't bring it with you
ADDRESS: 2521 Brunswick Road NEIGHBORHOOD: Fry's Spring ASKING: $384,900 YEAR BUILT: 1930 SIZE: 1,798 fin. sq. ft. LAND: 0.23 acres CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10 LISTED BY: Gail...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
July 1 at 1pm at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: condo unit #2, 132 Turtle Creek Road Debtor: Cullen C. Craddock Amount owing: $61,000 Bidder brings: $6,100 or 1...
DR. HooK
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Sweetpee? Leave sugar on the table
When I was in college, I saw a crazy, steamy movie called, 9-l/2 Weeks. There's a scene beside an open refrigerator in which blindfolded Kim Basinger eats unidentified food...
Movie Reviews
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Wells, well: Sure, it's stupid, but...
There are several things we know (or think we know) going in to Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds: * The special effects will be better than in Byron Haskin's 1953 movie...
Music Reviews
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In-box follies: The postman brings a winner
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Pillar to post: All over the music map
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News
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Autism activism: Parent at war with mercury
As the summer heats up, the mercury rises– and not just in thermometers. Mercury is climbing into the national debate over autism, a devastating development disorder ... -
Best place...: For white supremacists?
Charlottesville is a favorite of best-place-to-live list makers. It also seems to have become a favorite of white supremacists, who continue to target the area for distribu... -
For sale: Wanna buy 'Hotel Charlottesville?
For once, it isn't aesthetic disputes with Charlottesville's Board of Architectural Review that threaten to derail developer Lee Danielson's vision. Over a year ago, the BA... -
No jolt?: Anastasio's 70VP to open for Stones
For their 31st tour beginning in August, the Rolling Stones are playing more than 30 venues in 23 states, but ticket-holders for the Scott Stadium performance will be atten... -
The defendant: Grisham's courtroom drama
Almost five years since Katharine Almy originally filed an $11 million lawsuit against legal thriller author John Grisham and a local private school, the parties found them... -
What's in a name? Falwell contests website use
Chris Lamparello was watching a debate on CNN's Crossfire six years ago about whether gay men should be allowed in the Boy Scouts. Suddenly, he decided that enough was enou...
The Brazen Careerist
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Babywise: Lessons from the delivery room
I had my baby last week. I'm tired. But not too tired to recognize management issues during labor. There were three management styles among the people in the delivery room:...
Sports Doctor
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SPORTS WRAP
The Future Starts Here: Charlottesville is becoming known as a training hotspot for world-class women's athletes. Just two weeks after the U.S women's lacrosse team paid a ...
Strange But True
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Lethal larder: Eating yourself to death
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. Around the world, what food even when properly prepared has made more people sick than any other? –J. Child A. Notice on TV's S...
Facetime
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Mrs. Virginia? That's Dr. Virginia to you!
Let's be honest. Although beauty pageant judges and spectators expect physical perfection from their contestants, not many people assume that brains lie behind the flawless...
Hotseat
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O, lucky man: Phillips and the rockets' red glare
Whether it's a 1,500-person conference, a family reunion, or Charlottesville's Fourth of July fireworks celebration– Dave Phillips can organize it. "They're all the s...
Letters
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Chalkboard soon forgotten
Worrywarts like Terry Di Cintio– who said in your June 23 cover story, "The writing on the wall: What the chalkboard will really do," that the chalkboard "... will be... -
Gimme that body part
As I was perusing the June 23 issue of The Hook for my weekly blast of information and entertainment, an ad on page 11 both caught my eye and slacked my jaw. As part of a S... -
He's no GOP boss
Contrary to your June 23 cover story, "The writing on the wall: What the chalkboard will really do," that described me as a "Republican leader," I'm not even a member of th... -
It's not so simple
I read the short article on school redistricting as if affects the Glenaire neighborhood in the June 16 edition of the Hook ["Not Meriwether: The neighborhood that didn't w... -
LETTER- Smell smoke? Cry 'fire!'
In the June 23 Hook cover story, "The writing on the wall: What the chalkboard will really do," you characterized my statement about exceptions to protected free speech as... -
Money wasted on psychic
In deference to Bjorn Turnquists assertion of "psychic" Noreen Renier solving national cases ["Cops should try psychic," June 23], it's a sad fact that there has not been o...