April 21st, 2011 issue #1016
April 21st, 2011
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Submission guidelines: Will the fallen VQR rise again?
For 86 years the Virginia Quarterly Review, UVA's award-winning literary journal, had appeared on bookstore shelves and in mailboxes each season. But that publishing streak was threatened last summer when the magazine's managing editor, 52-year-old Kevin Morrissey, took his own life.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Cruelest month: Storms April 16 knock down trees and power lines in Albemarle, cause two flooding deaths in Waynesboro, and a tornado cuts a four-mile swath through Stuarts...
The Dish
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Chocolate for discerning Easter Bunnies
When you think of packing Easter Baskets with chocolate eggs and bunnies, you don't necessarily think Gearharts Fine Chocolates. More like those goodies you find at CVS and... -
Slice cuts in
Look out, local pizza makers! Vinny Mastellone is gunning for you. The restaurateur known for running Vinny's across from Albemarle High School (and for owning Greene Count... -
Staunton Restaurant Week excites
Following the success of Charlottesville's Restaurant Week, the folks over in Staunton approached the Hook for guidance on starting their own. We were happy to oblige. More...
Essays
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Predictions: The ones about the future are tricky
The price of oil will soar to $200 per barrel. A bioterror attack will occur before 2013. Rising food prices could spark riots in Britain. The Arctic Ocean will be ice-fr...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Property transfers
ALBEMARLE
Real Estate - On the Block
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Chi Psi sigh: You can save this gem from destruction
Address: 1536 Rugby RoadNeighborhood: RugbyAsking: $1,395,000Assessment: $976,000Year Built: 1914Size: 7,802 fin. sq. ft. /1,858 unfin. Land: 3.66 acres Curb ...
Real Estate - Update
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Still available
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: June 03, 2010 in issue 0922ADDRESS: 350 Main Street, Palmyra in Fluvanna CountyASKING PRICE: $189,000 (was $193,000)ASSESSMENT: $188,800SELLER'S...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
April 21 at 8:30am at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 2401 Smithfield Road Debtor: Monnica Terwilliger Williams Amount owing: $191,260 Bidder brings: $15,000 or 1...
Art Features
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Starry eyed: Bennett and co. harness the heavens
Between giant sun flares and the recent “super moon,” not to mention new theorizing that life on earth sprang from space fungus, the cosmos has been making news lately....
DR. HooK
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Going, not gone: High-risk folks should be screened for Hep C
Pamela Anderson is one of the biggest blond bombshells in the history of Hollywood. I've never watched an episode of Baywatch, but I still know her in the red swimsuit carr...
Movie Reviews
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Humorous horror: Scre4m's smart; its stars are not
The great pleasure in the Scream movies is that the characters have seen other horror films. At times they talk as if they're in the chat room of a horror site. Wes Craven'...
Music Features
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Hey diddle, diddle! Old Calf channels nursery rhymes
For local folky Americana quartet Old Calf (the name reflects the conglomeration of founding members Ned Oldham and Matty Metcalfe), the inspiration for their newest r... -
Laughing Lucinda: She talks of marriage and kitchen tapes
After a few decades of working at a measured pace, Lucinda Williams has suddenly become relatively prolific. This burst has led to the release of one of her finest albums, ... -
Variety hour: Manorlady keeps debut all in the family
Manorlady Family Band is just that– a veritable family affair– with the main components consisting of husband and wife Melissa and Aaron Bailey on vocals and gu...
News
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'Family man': Relatives fear for missing Fluvanna citizen
"I love you, baby. Have a great day." Those were the last words Tara Hourihan heard from her husband of 14 years, Robert Lee Hourihan, as he prepared to leave for work on F... -
Driver who killed winemaker Neumeister pleads guilty
The man whose Earlysville Road car wreck killed motorcycling winemaker Dan Neumeister last fall has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and drunk driving charges, the Newsplex r... -
Eagle flew: But governor welcomes MicroAire's expansion
The eagle has flown, but the orthopedic instruments have landed– as the sprawling warehouse that served as the Charlottesville sorting facility for the U.S. Mail will... -
Flood fatalities: How two people drowned in Waynesboro
There were reports of microburst damage in Free Union, but the Charlottesville side of the Blue Ridge escaped mortal carnage in the well-predicted flooding that canceled th... -
Murder for hire? Albemarle woman charged in foiled plot
A 62-year-old Albemarle woman has been arrested and jailed on charges of attempted murder for hire and attempted arson. Police say they were dispatched to the 2800 block of... -
Suit dismissed? $200 million action over High's prosecution hits bump
The deadline for serving defendants in the $200 million civil suit against the City of Staunton passed on April 12, and the plaintiff says he's not sure whether his case wi...
The Brazen Careerist
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Power play: Build on your strengths
My son is a special-needs kid. When we first heard the news about his disabilities– a neurological disorder and several gastrointestinal ailments that kept him from t...
Sports Doctor
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Pigskin philosophy: Ausar Walcott learns meaning of in(de)finite
In his 1644 Principles of Philosophy, René Descartes, the first "modern" philosopher, attempted to be more scientific and less metaphysical than he was in his 1641 work, M...
Strange But True
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Surprise! Grapes are more complicated than you!
Q. Which has more "protein-coding genes," as geneticists refer to the more important ones? a) a fruit fly, b) a grape, c) a chicken, d) you –G. MarxA. Though the human ge...
Online only
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Murder case: Broadcast set for Morgan Harrington program
Investigators have been quiet on the Morgan Harrington case since January, when police led media on a tour of key sites including the John Paul Jones Arena, where the 20-ye... -
Photos: TV On The Radio at the Jefferson Theater
Indie rock kingpins TV On The Radio were one of the Jefferson Theater's biggest recent scores. A lot of you folks probably didn't make it since the April 9 show sold out, b... -
Rags and riches: Haven founder Shadyac goes on Oprah Wednesday
Tom Shadyac, the blockbuster director turned soul-searcher, the man who poured part of his personal fortune into a Haven for the homeless in Charlottesville, appears on Opr... -
Snap: Day of the dandelions
"Who needs dogwoods?" asks photographer Anne Rucker, pointing out that while often considered weeds, dandelions are to her a sign of spring. "It is well known that the best... -
Snap: Hacked traffic warning
As if the recent closure of the bridge over the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks hasn't snarled traffic enough, this warning sign positioned in the Jefferson Park Avenue me... -
Snap: The first Fridays in the nTelos Wireless Pavilion
The season's first Fridays after Five opened without incident on April 15 in the newly monikered nTelos Wireless Pavilion. The show occurred before the next-day deluge that... -
VPA's judges smile on Hook
From the Hook's Restaurant Week sponsorship to its coverage of the Biscuit Run boondoggle and the Morgan Harrington case, judges for the Virginia Press Association's annual...
Black and White
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Incarcerate
1. to imprison; confine. 2. to enclose; constrict closely.–Dictionary.com