December 1st, 2011 issue #1048
December 1st, 2011
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What's next? Occupiers ponder the future
Tuesday, November 29 is deadline day for Occupy Charlottesville, but at noon– just six hours before protesters must decide whether to stay in Lee Park in violation of an expired permit or to move to another location– there's still no consensus."We just don't know yet," says one Occupier, who declines to be identified before cutting off a reporter's questions to "go check out another option."
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Biggest countdown: Will they stay or will they go? Charlottesville withdraws the welcome mat (permit) for Occupy Charlottesville in Lee Park with an 11pm November 29 deadli...
The Dish
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City Market: Survey says...
A team of UVA students questioned nearly 400 Charlottesville City Market goers over the course of the summer, and the results are in. -
Spice of life: Dressing destiny for local woman
About 17 years ago, Eileen Park left a successful TV graphics design career in New York City and followed her husband, a successful plastic surgeon at UVA, to Charlottesvil...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Postbellum makeover in Forest Lakes
10/21/11 Albemarle Anderson Hord III, Trustee, to Nicholas & Wendy Seay, 3800 Dick Woods Road, $1,450,000 Jon & Jennifer Weaver to Privatebank, 4543 Lou...
Real Estate - On the Block
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Big three: What are assessments, appraisals, and market value?
With all the information about today’s housing market, it’s easy for buyers, sellers, and observers of real estate activity to be confused about the diff...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
December 2 at 3pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 135 Yellowstone Drive Unit 203 Debtor: Conrad R. Harper, Gilda B. Harper, Robert Copeland Original amount owing: $81...
Art Features
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Material evidence: Dass investigates the possibilities
During the Virginia Arts of Book’s recent “Raucous Auction” (mark your calendar for next year), a Dean Dass print came on the block. Someone unfamiliar with Dass’ w...
DR. HooK
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Oh, flu-ey! Get shot, wash hands, stay well
It’s that time of year again: cold and flu season. Are you ready to avoid that “red-nosed” look this winter?My office is flooded with phone calls and urgent visits fo...
Movie Reviews
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Clooney's best: 'Descendants' a four-star hit
The Descendants has a happy ending. Therefore technically it's a comedy. It takes place in the paradise of Hawaii. It stars George Clooney. That may lead you to expect a pl...
News
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Biscuit and gravy: Lawmakers dodge calls to unshroud millions
The loudest voices on both the political left and right have voiced outrage, but future Hunter Craigs can continue to secretly extract millions from taxpayers. That's becau... -
Male fondler: Intruder targets UVA men
Women may be the most common targets of sexual predators, but a series of recent break-ins should serve as a wake-up call for men. According to Charlottesville police, at l... -
Not over: Both sides appeal in Lester v. Allied Concrete
The lawsuit that resulted in one of the largest wrongful death jury awards in Virginia has been appealed– by both sides. -
Wild horses: Equine encounters of the worst kind
Pooh Johnson still shudders when she thinks how much worse it could have been. She's the owner of the two horses who fled her farm Thanksgiving Day and ran head-on into 70m...
On Architecture
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Rotunda rehab: Good-bye and good-riddance to magnolias?
As UVA gears up to begin a $4.7 million roof replacement project for the Rotunda, part of a planned $50 million restoration of Thomas Jefferson's famous centerpiece on the ...
The Brazen Careerist
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Suffer stupidity: Even dummies can prove useful
One of the most common gripes I hear from corporate complainers is that they’re surrounded by people who see the world incorrectly. Sometimes it’s the accountant who wo...
Sports Doctor
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For shame! Bowl offer can't make up for Tech loss
Did you know UVA’s beat-the-buzzer punt return and lateral pass was named Geico’s 2011 Play of the Year? The Cavs fielded their own punt, blindly lateraled the ball, an...
Strange But True
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No crow: Birds can avoid mid-air crashes
Q. Do birds collide? If not, why not? –A. HaleA. "Early one morning, at the start of duck hunting season, I was standing waist-deep in a swamp when two black swans flew o...
Online only
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Table of contents
COVEROccupation delfation?After a month and a half of fighting the power through protests, placards, and the power symbolism of just being present, the Occupy Charlottesvil...
Black and White
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Unengaged
It’s an off off year. There are 2,098 registered voters in the reconfigured Venable precinct; 131 of them showed to vote. Visiting the polling place was like visiting a m...