January 19th, 2012 issue #1103
January 19th, 2012
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Most jarring headline: "Neighbors: 5-year-old Stabbed 3 People After Argument Over Juice Box" details the January 16 attack on two juveniles and an adult at a mobile home p...
The Dish
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Concrete move: Market Annex work begins on Main St.
Workers ready the former site of C&R Auto, whose painted signs used to grace 513 West Main Street with promises of "specializing in automatic transmissions," for an exp... -
Escafé readies: Grand reopening before month's end
Escafé's coming back, baby. As first reported in the Hook, the venerable Downtown Mall restaurant with the hip nightlife recently packed its bags from its longtime home in... -
Healthy Chinese: Song Song's Zhou & Bing
Right across from the "Skybar" on 5th Street NE, you may or may not have noticed that a placed called Song Song's Zhou & Bing opened on the Downtown Mall with little fa... -
Monsoon, switched: Friends season Market Street with Siam
How did two Thai art students wind up taking over Monsoon, Charlottesville's oldest Asian fusion restaurant? Well, to hear 31-year-old "Kitty" Ashi tell the story, it began... -
Restaurant Week tip: Reserve early for semi-annual food fandango
From January 23 to 29, Charlottesville will once again experience the hugely popular Restaurant Week, which draws eager diners from within Charlottesville and the surroundi...
Essays
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Online specs: How I reframed the discussion
“Why would you want to line the pockets of the Chinese or whoever, when you can buy your glasses from an optician right here in Charlottesville? Tell me you won’t buy y...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
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Country convenience
12/6/11 Charlottesville Opre Gleasons Development LLC to Unit 409 200 Garrett Street LLC, 200 Garrett Street, Unit 409, $306,600 12/7/11 Albemarle Douglas Wade to Christoph...
Real Estate - On the Block
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
January 20 at 3pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1757 Old Trail Drive Debtor: Hauser Homes Inc. Original amount owing: unknown Bidder brings: 10 percent sale price I...
Movie Reviews
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Not so 'Joyful': Parton, Latifah miss the note
Joyful Noise is an ungainly assembly of parts that don't fit, and the strange thing is that it makes no particular effort to please its target audience, which would seem to...
News
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Hall, sold: Richmond magnate buys Keswick resort and club
At least one suicide and a murder: what you won't find in the releases 1912: Robert B. Crawford spends $100,000 to build his dreamhouse, Villa Crawford.1947: Local busines... -
Life behind bars: Eric Abshire defiant at sentencing
After declaring his love for his late wife and his innocence in her death, a defiant Eric Abshire, convicted in October of killing Justine Swartz Abshire, spoke aloud in co... -
Observer founder Kay Peaslee has died
Less than two years after moving to Indianapolis, Kay Peaslee, the founder of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Observer, a weekly paper whose muckraking set a standard for 198... -
Pam Melampy: Clerk candidate dies from aneurysm
It started as a really bad headache over the weekend. By Monday, January 16, Pam Collier Melampy was dead from an aneurysm, says her sister, Albemarle Circuit Court Clerk D... -
Rape charge: County cop arrested and media blocked
On January 5, Albemarle County Police arrested one of their own, former County police officer Sean M. Horn, 42, who has been charged with an alleged Thanksgiving Day weeken... -
River law: Local angler fights for river access
Several years ago, when a local angler waded into a waterway in Alleghany County, he also waded into a legal battle over property rights and public access to Virginia's riv... -
Scanner error: NC State checks turn up in Charlottesville
Anson Parker made a New Year's resolution: To let North Carolina State University know that the scanner he bought on eBay contained copies of thousands of checks written to... -
Winter jasmine jumps out early
Some priors: - 2011 - Feb 19 - 2010 - March 10 - 2009 - Feb 12 - 2008 - Feb 22 - 2007 - early January
Online only
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Blue Ridge commercial
Staunton resident Bill Golden (right) pauses while getting filmed for a video advertising his business which partners investors with people who find distressed properties, ... -
Morris men!
The Albemarle Morris Men enliven the Downtown Mall on a recent afternoon. -
Raising the roofs
Workers position a truss for a string of townhouses at Pavilions at Pantops, a growing community that launched with a bang– literally, as blasting caused some minor d... -
Table of contents
DISHMSG freeChinese food gets a bad rap for being high in sodium and packed with MSG, but thanks to the healthy choices at the new Song Song's Zhou and Bing on the east end...
Facetime
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Simpson's folly? Nelsonian gets serious about Alaska race
After more than a generation as the unofficial ambassador of Nelson County, Russ Simpson suddenly finds himself unrecognizable. The proprietor of a popular roadside stand a...
Black and White
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Around here
January 1 at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion.~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Cultural preview
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FunStuff: Charlottesville events January 19 and beyond
Belt it outIf you think karaoke means following a bouncing ball over computer-screen lyrics as canned musical accompaniment blares, think again. Thanks to the rocking (and...