October 13th, 2005 issue #0441

October 13th, 2005

  • Bath County: Creigh Deeds' sense of place

    Four-wheel drive is recommended to get up the driveway. The front yard around the 1917 farmhouse needs mowing, and if the lawn looks a tad untidy, that's because state Senator Creigh Deeds hasn't been home to Millboro Springs for the past 12 days. Cats keep popping up to greet him as he strolls to the barn, and 10 equines graze in a field on his 13-acre farm that looks up at Rough Mountain across the road. This is the first summer Deeds hasn't had time to plant a garden.

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Best news for defendants facing federal charges: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, which includes Charlottesville, gets Larry Wayne Shelton as i...

Editor's Note

  • Special edition coming!

    We hope you've enjoyed our Rolling Stones coverage in the last two issues, but you don't have to pry out the staples to get concert keepsakes. Within a month, a special glo...

The Dish

  • Get it all: The world comes to town

    I brought the world home in a brown paper bag today. A bottle of San Pellegrino water (Italy) clinked against a bottle of Lorina sparkling lemonade (France). A sack of tart...

Essays

  • Risky business: Get married, tempt fate

    It was wicked dark. My hand clutched the splintery railing, and I lowered one foot warily, searching for the next step in the long staircase down to the beach. I looked up....

Question of the Week

  • What do you know about Creigh Deeds?

    Marcia Delonge: "Nothing. It's pathetic. I'm a grad student right now. I'm working on my thesis: destabilization of the phosphorus cycle in tropical forests. I'd like to k...

Real Estate

  • Have a ball: Serenity, location score high

    ADDRESS: 1115 Hazel St. NEIGHBORHOOD: Locust Grove ASKING: $579,500 CITY ASSESSMENT: $362,200 YEAR BUILT: 1929 SIZE: 1,947 fin. sq. ft., 689 unfin. LAND: .21 acres CURB AP...

Real Estate - $old

  • $old

    ALBEMARLE 6/29  Kent D. Woodward to Kathryn B. Nesbitt and James F. Conley II, 6.329 acres on Mint Meadow Lane, $664,480. Joyce B. and Raymond L. Carey Sr. to Timoth...

Real Estate - Commercial Construction Permits

  • Commercial Construction Permits

    ALBEMARLE 9/15-20  South Pantops Land Trust, Charles W. Hurt and Shirley Fisher, temporary mobile office trailer, $1,500. Bruce W. or Bonnie M. Kirtley, reface canop...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • SOLD

    APPEARED IN THE HOOK : June 2, 2005 in issue 0422 ADDRESS: 526-528 N. First St. ( two houses) ASKING PRICE: $1,075,000 SELLING PRICE: $930,000 DAYS TO CONTRACT: 85 SEL...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • Property auctions

     October 19 at 8am at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 9969 Hatton Ferry Road, Scottsville Debtor: Barbara E. Balsley Amount owing: $150,000 Bidder brings: 1...

DR. HooK

  • Sprue- whew!: Celiac sufferers pooped

    One of my friends said I write and talk about poop better than anyone else he knows. Is that a compliment or an insult? I learned in college there are three sacred things i...

Music Features

  • Bomb buzz: Threat doesn't slow Stones

    When the Rolling Stones came to Scott Stadium on October 6, many expected the concert would be the bomb. But no one expected a bomb threat would take the Stones off the sta...

  • Concert FAQs: Questions and conundra

    Where did the Stones stay? Richmond's Hotel Jefferson for the duration of the D.C.-Charlottesville-Durham leg of the tour. But Mick spent concert night and one more at Kesw...

  • Concert pix

      The Stones shattered many expectations   Mick and Keith start it up (8:55pm)   230 VIPs and lottery winners perched over the band   Michael Phi...

  • Da bomb: Promoter sez Stones dug us

    The World's Greatest Rock Band comes to Charlottesville and is greeted with– a bomb threat. The unusual part wasn't the threat, it's that it stopped the show. "We get...

  • Getting through: Stones confront traffic, lingerie

    For hundreds and perhaps thousands of concert-goers, the bomb scare wasn't the biggest beast of burden. It was the traffic, and if it hadn't been for quick thinking by some...

  • How was it? Tiny reviews from the floor and tailgates

    "Except for getting stuck with this bomb scare," says Jake Sullivan of McLean, "this guy rocked and rolled. I'd seen it inside at the MCI, but this was better."   ...

  • Setting up: Big crew for a big task

    About 235 locals joined 265 roadies to put on this show   Dale Skjerseth, the production manager for the Rolling Stones and Tres Thomas, the promoter   It...

  • Stone groove: Fanfare for the uncommon fan

      "I'm in that rock and roll spirit," declares C.J. Bell (right) who flew in to the Charlottesville Airport from Boca Raton. She, however, was here not for the Stone...

  • Stoned: The setlist

    Start: 8:48pm 1. Start Me Up - "Welcome, Charlottesville," Mick yelled out after this standard but classic concert opener. He then ticked off a list of places concert-goer...

  • Town sugar: Stones smite Charlottesville

    "Beatles or Stones?" goes the celebrity death-match, the age-old battle for rock supremacy. It's a rare fan who'd contend that Mick and Keith are better composers than Lenn...

Music Reviews

  • Time travel: Outback to the '80s

    The Outback Lodge has gone through a few ownership changes this year, but it's still the same old place. By that I mean there haven't been any drastic overhauls in the déc...

News

The Brazen Careerist

  • Pink slip: Be ready for bad news

    Unemployment is traumatic, and people who have been there never shake the fear of going back. If you've spent five months job-hunting (an average amount of time) you have p...

Strange But True

  • Shattering: Don't sit so close to me

    DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. The soprano lies on her deathbed as the performance is nearing its end. She reaches the climactic moment in the music and belts her ...

Facetime

Hotseat

  • Pottsie Potts: Underdog with a cause

    Russ Potts introduces himself to– well, to just about anyone who crosses his path. "Nice ad," says a potential voter of his pot-banging television commercial that may...

Letters

  • County shortchanges teachers

    In her article on the No Child Left Behind legislation, Sheila Pell makes a very common, but often erroneous, assumption when she writes that "Wealthier [school] districts,...

  • Is 'tent' a Coran copy?

    In a letter in your September 8 issue ["Love the new look!"], writer Amy Robertson Scripps refers to the "beautifully designed Coran Capshaw amphitheatre." On my first visi...

  • No Child militarizes kids

    Thank you for your article about how the No Child Left Behind federal law is affecting our local schools [September 15 cover story]. I wonder if you and your readers realiz...

  • No Child narrows kids

    The problem with No Child Left Behind is not just the inadequate level of federal funding, but its promise of turning out a generation of one-dimensional kids [September 15...

  • Red scare: Murrow story sounds familiar

    "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.... We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." That's not a modern-day criticism of the Patriot Act (though if t...

  • Will leaders speak out?

    In light of your report of the two September 25 assaults on UVA students ["4Better or Worse," September 29] by gangs of African-American men (joining similar reports from t...

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DR. HooK

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My Ride

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Question of the Week

Real Estate

Real Estate - $old

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Real Estate Property auctions

Strange But True

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