October 30th, 2008 issue #0744

• CULTURE- MUSIC- BUZZ BOX- Dar Williams: Parenting, veggies, and the big open spaces
• DRHOOK- Eat like Phelps, but exercise like him too
• REALESTATE-UPDATE- STILL AVAILABLE
• THE SPORTS DOCTOR- October blues: A month-long sad sports story
• THE TOUGH CUSTOMER- Customer for life? Not without the free tires, he says

4Better Or Worse

• 4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review

News

• Fast Company does demo job on McDonough
• UVA loses half a billion, Charlottesville deals
• Blackburn receives UVA's highest honor
• Darfur concert nets $41K
• Fonda plans to attend Film Fest
• City drops quest for parking company, authority
• Vinegar Hill: R.I.P. after Festival
• Water Authority not ready for pipeline talk
• Dar Williams: Parenting, veggies, and the big open spaces

Cartoons

• CARTOONS

Cover Stories

• COVER- And the nominees are...: Nine people we'd like to see run the Virginia Film Festival

Essays

• ESSAY- Kingfish effect: Why Obama can't help your economy

Gimme Shelter

• GIMME SHELTER- Energy audits: Where are your energy $$$ going?

Hotseat

• HOTSEAT- Riegert can't do that to our questionnaire! Only we can do that to our questionnaire!

Movie Reviews

• MOVIE REVIEW- ‘Frozen River': Giving indie films a good name

On Architecture

• ONARCHITECTURE- Dark passages: Haunting DeJarnette buildings get a reprieve

Photophile

• PHOTOPHILE- Immigrant soul: Grisham hosts Legal Aid learning party

Question of the Week

• QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What's your favorite movie about aliens?

Real Estate - On the Block

• REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Country by City: Cottage hides away on 21 Curves

Strange But True

• STRANGE BUT TRUE- On the rebound: Why you'll be happy in your golden years

The Brazen Careerist

• THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Learning opportunity: What you can learn from Sarah Palin

The Dish

• FOOD- THE DISH- Good Fortune: Crozet gets Chinese, Ix gets hookahs
• FOOD- THE DISH- Harvest days: Think global, eat local