September 8th, 2011 issue #1036

September 8th, 2011

9/11 reflections: 3,000 dead and freedom too

We lost the World Trade Center. We lost 3,000 people. Black people, white people, Asian people, Middle Eastern people. People we didn't even think were at risk. My girlfriend called me to say that a plane had crashed into the Trade Center. "That's happened before at the Empire State Building," I replied. "It'll be fine."

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Commemorations planned for tenth anniversary of 9/11

The public can watch a march of Charlottesville's first responders and get a peek at the city's own chunk of World Trade Center steel as part of the "Weekend of Remembrance and Honor" to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the events of 9/11/01. Key events on Sunday, September 11, take place on the Downtown Mall and include an array of musical groups paying tribute to the horrific nation-changing events that occurred a decade earlier.

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Right to bare? TSA screeners face lawsuit

Aaron Tobey, the 21-year-old Charlottesville native who made headlines last December when he was arrested after stripping down to his shorts at the Richmond International Airport while going through security, revealing the words of the Fourth Amendment written on his bare chest to protest controversial new TSA strip search procedures, will get his day in court.

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The week in review

Latest tropical storm: Lee heads up from Louisiana, dumping rain on Cental Virginia and bringing flood warnings. A truck stalls out in high water on Avon Street Extended Se...

A Batesville Store state of mind

Well, it turns out that the Batesville Store will not be re-opening. Not in the Batesville Store building anyway.
Legendary Coupe's getting new owners

Looks like the owners of Trinity Irish Pub on the Corner will be purchasing Elliewood Avenue institution Coupe De Ville's, which has been around for nearly 30 years.
Rapture offers eight-course beer dinner

On the heels of a killer Tomato Dinner, the crew at Rapture will be cooking up a Virginia Beer Dinner on Thursday, September 8, with– get this– eight courses! <...

After Ike: Can Charlottesville love both peace and war?

If I told you I would support women's rights as long as I didn't have to oppose rape, you’d think I needed lessons in both logic and basic human decency. If I said I woul...

Long road

July 15, 2011 Charles & Josephine Rausch to Turner & Christine Lisle, 854 Locust Avenue, $580,000, Charlottesville Gordon & Margaret Stewart to John Rober...

Room to roam: Waverly beauty has space inside and out

Address: 2260 Mechum Place Neighborhood: Waverly Asking: $750,000 Assessment: $596,000&nb...

Property auctions

September 8 at 12:30pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1125 Pen Park LaneDebtor: Ella F. SwiftOriginal amount owing: $207,000 Bidder brings: 10 percent s...

Feminine mystique: Waldrop wires into women's nature

Is there something in Roanoke’s water? Because who would imagine that a western Virginia railroad hub would become fertile ground for women artists focused on the feminin...

Picky, picky: Itching not part of scratching disorder

Scratching posts are made for cats, but I think many humans would benefit from having one as well. Some people want to scratch out other people’s eyes (e.g. Nancy Grace&#...

Lies and deceit: Mirren shines in 'The Debt'

The Debt weaves a tangled web of lies and deceptions around a seemingly heroic raid in 1965 carried out by three agents of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency known for...

Swagged Out: Peyton Tochterman's 'A New World'

At times, Peyton Tochterman's new album really doesn't even sound like a Peyton Tochterman album.

'You're sued!' Bank of America files against The Donald

The colorful efforts of Donald Trump to buy Patricia Kluge's former home have pushed Bank of America so hard that the bank has apparently gotten fed up and filed suit again...
Big reveal: Judge demands cop's tale in wheelchair case

The cop-hitting-the-wheelchair case moved a step closer to trial on thte morning of Wednesday, August 31 as a judge in Charlottesville Circuit Court ordered Albemarle Count...
Cracked, sure. But is Louisa County H.S. really kaput?

New photos posted by the publicity director for the Louisa County public school system show cracks in concrete block walls (as well as lots of stuff strewn about). But do t...
Quake casualty? Council candidate claims knock-out blow

James Halfaday was unlucky in his run for City Council, and his bad luck seems to have continued, apparently making him the only person injured in Charlottesville in th...
Video shows Louisa High School as earthquake hit

Newly-released surveillance video shows the moment of the Louisa County-centered earthquake. And like a modern-day Rudy Giuliani, who famously moved amid the wreckage of 9...

Mall kiosk surfaces, British Corner invasion, and is the Mall okay?

The journey of the Downtown Mall's iconic kiosk continues. Three years ago, the City had it removed from the Mall with plans to demolish it. But after the Hook wrote about ...

A lot or a little: It's all the same when you're stalling

There are two ways to not get something done: doing a lot and doing nothing. The trick to getting your list of tasks done is to understand your method of not doing them.Eve...

Local option: Why can't UVA & Tech fans watch games?

I love listening to football on the radio. When I go to a game, I always take my little Bell & Howell worldband with me so I can tune in; football games are often much ...

Say cheese: Smiles work better than face lifts

Q. If you don't quite meet our culture's beauty standard, you can just accept yourself, imperfections and all. Or you might get an extreme makeover, sucking away fat, ...

Snap: Kelly's tree

The maple tree planted to honor Kelly Watt, the hard-charging runner-writer who died from heat stroke complications just before entering college in 2005, stands in tribute ...
Table of contents

COVERRemembering 9/11Ten years after the towers fell, smoke billowed out of the Pentagon, and a group of heroic passengers made the phrase "Let's roll" a national call to a...

Lawnmower men: Meriweather mows irreverent ground

You've tossed dull corporate newsletters straight in the trash, so why read the one from the yard maintenance company? How about dramatic candor of "The Ooops Issue"? "In M...

Pocahontas' decendents not alone is transmitting history

With regard to the July 21 article on Pocahontas ["Uncovering the true story of Pocahontas"], native oral histories have commonly been ignored by anthropologists as sources...
Ragged Mountain dam a boondoggle

[Re: July 28 cover story: "FLAWS- Tripled rates, spun numbers, and Conservancy conflicts: Why the war on dredging slogs on"]:
We can't afford to lose post offices

[Re: July 28 essay: "Slowing postal: Free Union and the place we won't let go"]: The proposed elimination of hundreds of small post offices is a sad development. It is a lo...