June 9th, 2011 issue #1023
June 9th, 2011
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Double recantation: Is an innocent man in jail for the Crozet murders?
It was the crime that rocked Crozet: a mother found stabbed to death in bed, her three-year-old son dead from the smoke of a cover-up fire. Amid whispers of witchcraft, four neighborhood teens were arrested, and three are doing time today in state prisons. One of them, Rocky Fugett, now 27, admits he was there that night in 2003, for which he was convicted along with his sister and another neighborhood kid. Eight years later, Fugett says an innocent man is serving time for something he didn't do, and that man– Robert Davis– wasn't even there.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Greatest disparity in sentencing in Lousia: Remone J. Houchens robs, brutally beats and blinds an 87-year-old woman and is sentenced June 1 to 30 years. That same day, Cana...
Editor's Note
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We're ramping up our real estate coverage
We're improving our presentation of the local real estate transactions. For a while, we've been publishing them several months late and almost all Albemarle. But now real e...
The Dish
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Charlocavoreville?
Forbes deputy editor Nicole Perlroth just penned a story with lots of props for RelayFoods.com, the new Charlottesville-based grocery-gathering business which seems to be h... -
Lunch giveaway at Raising Cane's
Those looking for a chicken finger breakfast during their Tuesday morning commute can swing by Raising Cane's restaurant on Emmet Street for a free box combo meal. To celeb... -
Reservations with Anthony Bourdain
The Paramount Theater just announced that celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert will be coming to town in October for an "open, frank and provocative back-and-fo... -
Surgeons of sauce: Docs spice up BBQ
If you live in Charlottesville and you've broken any bones, there's a good chance orthopaedic surgeon Dr. David Heilbronner put you back together. The Charlottesville nativ...
Essays
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Curse or blessing? I'm a fount of useless information
I love pop culture– television, film, music, history, live entertainment, literature– and the people involved. For years, friends and co-workers have known this...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Park Street victorian outpaces assessor's view
5/2/2011Martha Wynne Stuart to Helm's Deep LLC, 2002 Stadium Road, Charlottesville - $300,000 Randolph & Linda Davis to David & Jennifer Webb, 217 Blackthorn Road, ...
Real Estate - On the Block
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No bluffing: Going green down by the riverside
Address: 120 Riverbluff CircleNeighborhood: Riverbluff in Woolen MillsAsking: $395,000Assessment: $278,700Year Built: 2010Size: 1,869 fin. sq. ft. / 924 unfin. sq. ft....
Real Estate - Update
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Still available
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: January 20, 2011 in issue 1003 ADDRESS: 329 Key West Drive, Key West ASKING PRICE: $649,000 ASSESSMENT: $451,100 SELLER'S AGENT: Roger Voisinet,...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
June 10 at 3:30pm at the Charlottesville Circuit Court Property: 722 Franklin Street Debtor: Ben Warthen, executor Amount owing: $75,200 Bidder brings: 10 percent sale pric...
Art Features
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World of hurt: Photographers wrench the gut
“If it bleeds, it leads” is the blunt if gruesome guiding principle of newsrooms everywhere. So it’s not shocking many of the winning images in the “World Press Pho...
DR. HooK
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Breathless: Smoking + asbestos = disaster
Smoke makes most of us want to gag. Thank God people can’t smoke in airplanes anymore. In the pre-historic era, there were smoking and nonsmoking sections in pl...
Movie Reviews
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Pre-heros: New X-Men offers high tech, alternate history
The best acting in X Men: First Class is by President John F. Kennedy, who in his Thanksgiving 1962 message to the nation expresses gratitude for the successful end of the ...
News
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Hot air? Tea Party opposes sustainability agenda
Carole Thorpe wants the Charlottesville community to know the difference between sustainability and Sustainability. The former, argues the Jefferson Area Tea Party chairwom... -
Kluge draperies go on the block
The latest auction of lavish goods once owned by Patricia Kluge takes place without the fanfare of last year's two-day Sotheby's sale. On Saturday, June 11, her David Easto... -
Lawrence Eagleburger: Statesman, Tea-Partier, unusual child-namer
Retired high-level diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger, an Albemarle County resident, has died at the age of 80, according to various reports. Eagleburger, who served George H.W.... -
Since 2010: Kaine makes first Biscuit Run comment
Since the revelation that a potentially hyperinflated appraisal could have defrauded Virginia taxpayers out of millions of dollars, former governor Tim Kaine has now made h... -
Target located: Missing Fluvanna man's car found in store lot
The vehicle missing Fluvanna County man Robert Lee Hourihan was last seen driving when he disappeared on April 8 has been located in a Target parking lot in La Plata, Maryl... -
Toomy triumphant: Ragged Mountain fire case fizzles
A man living near the infamous February wildfire that scorched hundreds of acres in Western Albemarle testified that he saw a distinctive male figure on a John Deere tracto... -
Waste War II? Van der Linde Recycling boldly attacked
After fending off a former employee-turned-extortionist, a $20 million government-filed RICO lawsuit, and dozens of bogus complaints filed with the Virginia Department of E... -
Why Waldorf? No vaccines lets measles hit hard
Did they fear an autism link or were they adhering to the Waldorf school founder's opposition to vaccines? Whatever their reason, the parents of the measles-infected ...
On Architecture
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Unhipping? JPA Colonial Revival may not be revived
Last Week, the Hook's cover story [Extreme Makeover: rich edition] showed how wealthy property owners have taken advantage of the State's generous Historic Rehabilitation T...
The Brazen Careerist
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Sporting chance: Set a flexible goal and stick to it
Watching professional sports is inspirational if you need a kick in the pants to set high goals for yourself, but the trick is not to make goals so lofty that you make your...
Sports Doctor
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Hamsterdam: Clean up college football? Not a chance!
ESPN is running an online poll right now about college football: is it corrupt? If so, where does the corruption lie, how do fans feel about it, and can a program comp...
Strange But True
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Euphemisms: Know any synonyms for sober?
Q. In a world that gets drunk on euphemisms, what are a few of the favorites? –W.C. Fields
Online only
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Person dead after train encounter in Scottsville
An eastbound train and a person who may have been dead, unconscious, or simply lying on train tracks in Scottsville made for a grisly scene Wednesday morning. Officials wer... -
Property transfers
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