April 14th, 2011 issue #1015
April 14th, 2011
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Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work?
20 years of Muzzles
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Worst commute: An overturned tractor-trailer on I-64 east of Charlottesville April 12 grinds the morning traffic to a standstill. Speediest way over Afton Mountain: A VDOT ...
Editor's Note
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On the Block returns
In this issue, our "On the Block" real estate column returns after a two-week hiatus. It was written for over a year by Sarah Jacobson with Susan Langenkamp filling in for ...
The Dish
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Atlas shouts, TJ celebrates, Belmont slices, and a new CSA
We have the recession to thank for Atlas Coffee, on Fontaine Avenue, right beside Guadalajara in the old Jackson Hewitt Tax Service space, which opened on April 5, as owner...
Essays
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Grounds swell: When anguished parents go campus-hopping
Ah, springtime. Forget robins. The true harbingers of spring in Charlottesville are the clusters of distressed families on The Lawn. They are enduring The College Visit. </...
Real Estate - $old
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Property transfers
ALBEMARLE8/10Judith M. Cangialosi to Harold W. Hodson Jr., 522 Jester Lane, Camelot, $205,500.Isabelle B. Kaye, trustee, to Judith Cangialosi, condominium unit at 1178 Part...
Real Estate - On the Block
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Space galore: Hidden Forest offers grand retreat
Address: 260 Forestvue DriveNeighborhood: Hidden Forest, EarlysvilleAsking: $745,000Assessment: $702,200Year Built: 2006Size: 3027 fin. sq. ft./2075 unfin.Land: 4.94 acresC...
Real Estate - Update
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Still available
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: May 06, 2010 in issue 0918 of the HookADDRESS: 32 Old Farm Road, BellairASKING PRICE: $982,000 (was $1,090,000)ASSESSMENT: $902,700SELLER'S AGEN...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
April 14 at 2:15pm at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 1776 Old Lynchburg Road Debtor: James S. Mclinay and Mary L. Mclinay Amount owing: unknown Bidder brings: 10...
Art Features
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Subject-object agreement: Students express visual vocabulary
Along with tulips and baseball’s return, the annual Charlottesville/Albemarle High School Art Show is one of the best things about spring. Currently on view in the McGuff...
DR. HooK
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Medicine mess: Figuring the calculus of insurance plans
Math has always been a favorite subject of mine. Go figure, I’m Asian! However, in my teeny-tiny hometown in Ohio, we were lucky if we had an abacus or a protractor. Okay...
Movie Reviews
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Indomitable: Soul Surfer inspirational, but realistic?
Soul Surfer is based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, a champion surfer who in her early teens was attacked by a shark and lost almost all her left arm. One month lat...
Music Features
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Beleza, but not Brazil: Funkalicious duo finds its rhythm
When they brought their delicious and danceable Brazilian-inspired samba, blues, and funk to Charlottesville in the mid 2000s, husband and wife duo Madeline and Humberto Sa... -
Viral video: Somehow Mann has succeeded without one
Former Richmonder Aimee Mann started out in a new-wave band and indulged a few solid alt-rock tendencies on her 1993 solo debut, but she had started down the long road of m...
News
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Big wrecks: Should interstate detours get traffic cops?
UVA football games, Charlottesville running races, and even the recent Dogwood Festival get the benefit of police officers directing traffic. So why didn't the massive tie-... -
Help Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun score a gig at Bonnaroo
Now that Facebook is officially the most popular site on the internet, we're just pleased as punch that you're spending your time with our humble readthehook.com. -
Locked doors: Two witnesses contradict Huguely's alibi
A judge certified six felony charges against former UVA lacrosse player George Huguely for the murder of fellow student-athlete and sometime girlfriend Yeardley Love in a n... -
On track: Wagner's latest film rides high
From political strife in Tibet to Irish dancing to America's polio epidemic, documentary filmmaker Paul Wagner has followed his diverse interests and turned them into award... -
Trump towers: Kluge vineyards go to The Donald
At times bidding in increments of $10,000, Donald Trump won the parcels containing Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard for $6.21 million, with the remainder of the Kluge hol...
On Architecture
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Stellar cellar: Keswick gets decadent at Treble
“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend.” - Thomas Jefferson Keswick H...
The Brazen Careerist
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Special or general? Get to the top with one strong skill
During the Internet's go-go days in the late 1990s, I thought the term generalist meant "she's doing two jobs and pays herself double." Now it seems the word generalist mea...
Sports Doctor
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Pop (up) quiz: Knock it out of the park
Considering the futility of psychoanalyzing Manny Ramirez, Tiger Woods, or the Boston Red Sox, and since we all need to have some fun, how about a quiz? I feel pr...
Strange But True
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Feline fix: Catnip helps Fluffy feel groovy, man
Q. Elephants have been known to gorge themselves on fermented fruits, parrots become more talkative after sipping alcoholic beverages, and one dog that lived near a brewery...
Online only
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Senate hopeful Kaine defends Soering transfer try
In his first press conference as a U.S. Senate hopeful, former governor Tim Kaine defends his attempt to transfer convicted murderer Jens Soering back to Germany. The Lynch...
Letters
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Incident not anti-Semitism
You recent reported an incident where two students in the night-time ran off with another student's flag of Israel which hung outside his door. [April 7: "4Better or Worse"...
Black and White
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Government knows all
“A governing body knows everything that goes into its legislative decisions whether it actually knows it or not.”~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day a...