November 24th, 2011 issue #1047
November 24th, 2011
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The road: Death count mounts in Albemarle
"Let me grab my phone– I'm expecting a victim's family to call." That's Sergeant Sean Hackney on November 17, the morning after the fifth person has died in less than a week on an Albemarle County road. He's operating on an hour-and-a-half of sleep, and all the officers in Albemarle police's traffic unit are working a fatality.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Latest George Huguely ruling: A judge says November 18 that defense attorneys may see slain student Yeardley Love's medical records. Biggest issue for UVA students I: The m...
The Dish
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Mac back at the Nook
The Nook mac and cheese menu is back and as the weather cools down, you might want to drop in for some warm and cheesy goodness. "People were asking all summer for it," say... -
Pho-nomenon: Pop-up to Handsome Boy Noodles (Ten)
Looks like Ten, the fancy Japanese restaurant on the Downtown Mall, is coming down in the world. Down in price, that is, for at least one night in December. On the first Su... -
Pigs & Whiskey at Rapture
What's a pig and whiskey dinner? Well, at Rapture on the Downtown Mall it means chef Chris Humphrey will be putting his own special spin on ham hocks, smoked pork, and brai... -
Spice trade on West Main
The Main Street Market, more commonly known at the "purple building" on West Main Street (Hey, what about just calling it the Purple Market?), welcomed a new shop recently:... -
Tavern sets closing date as Dec. 24
The Tavern, that venerable Emmet Street breakfast place where "students, tourists, and townpeople meet," has set its departure date: Saturday, December 24. The Christmas Ev...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Discounted deal on Garth
10/7/11 Albemarle R B C Bank USA to Onyx Tenth LLC, 1701 Bundoran Drive, $1,850,000 Owen & Rachel Norment to Guy & Joan Barnocky, 1247 Courtyard Drive, $324,000...
Real Estate - On the Block
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Peace at hand? Calm coming to Dunlora via Parkway
Address: 944 King William Drive Neighborhood: Dunlora Asking: $449,950 Assessment: $494,8...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
November 29 at noon at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 5412 Louisa Road, 5406 Louisa Road, 5400 Louisa Road, Keswick Debtors: Lee Real Property Holdings LLC, Timothy R. ...
Art Features
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Curve-vase-ious: Ross bends clay and opens mouths
The passion of an 18-year-old is a force of nature. At that age, everything feels urgent, and new discoveries prompt fervent devotion. I felt that way about Georgia O’Kee...
DR. HooK
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Brusha brusha: Healthy teeth mean healthy heart
Austin Powers has the worst teeth. Mike Myers plays this shaggy English spy who is somehow a lady’s man. I don’t know why anyone would kiss someone with such bad teeth....
Movie Reviews
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Modern apocalypse: Von Trier's 'Melancholia' stares death down
Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" opens with music from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," mourning and apocalyptic, and disturbing images of a world not right. A woman dressed as...
News
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1959's triumph: 'Charlottesville 12' get pair of plaques
The "Charlottesville 12," the African-American boys and girls– now men and women– who boldly strolled into Venable Elementary School and Lane High School 52 yea... -
Biscuit backstory: Flips would have rewarded Craig's fees
In its first two years in the hands of speculators, doomed housing development Biscuit Run rang up over $7 million in expenses, including nearly a quarter million dollars p... -
Biscuit burden: Cuccinelli demands cash from Craig
In his response to a speculator's controversial lawsuit seeking nearly $20 million from taxpayers in the form of conservation tax credits, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli ... -
Occupy talk: Council wants campers moved, not ousted
With its seats filled and with huddled masses of humanity lining the aisles and anterooms, City Council Chambers had never in recent memory appeared so crowded. But in the ... -
One dead, one critical: And it could have been prevented
One college freshman is dead, and another one lies critically injured after a train roared over the trestle on which they were stargazing. As officials wring their hands ov...
On Architecture
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Rice Hall: UVA cuts ribbon on $65 million smart building
UVA officials cut the ribbon Friday morning on a $65 million building that can provide real-time reports on its own utility usage while educating the next wave of brainiacs... -
Snooky's owner wins right to remove cedar shakes
One of the Downtown Mall's more unusual façades may soon change, now that the Board of Architectural Review has, at its November 15 meeting, approved the removal of the ex...
The Brazen Careerist
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Get creative: Use bad times to spark genius
I’ve found that bad situations get creative juices flowing. And I’ve come to appreciate the bad times; they give us unique opportunities to find our best ideas. Here ar...
Sports Doctor
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'Tis the season: Stories of personal triumph inspire thanks
Thanksgiving is more eclipsed by Christmas every year. Our town’s Christmas lights went up the week after Halloween. But this year, Thanksgiving shall not pass uncelebrat...
Strange But True
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Killer bees! Insects help armies wage war
Q. You know about warring humankind “letting loose the dogs of war," but how about "the bugs of war"? –D. PetraeusA. Fifty years ago, following the launch of the Soviet...
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Table of contents
COVERDeadly roadsWith 19 traffic fatalities on Albemarle County roads this year, 2011 is the deadliest year for local drivers in recent memory, and the perilous holiday sea... -
Two more: Fatalities mount on county roads
The death toll on Albemarle roads continues, with two more people dead, adding up to five fatalities in less than a week, none of them wearing seatbelts. Scottsville Road w...
Black and White
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Hooverville
I caught the last hour of speechifying before Charlottesville City Council by the Occupiers. Peace, love, and social transformation. Justice! Drunks cured by love and com...