January 26th, 2012 issue #1104

January 26th, 2012

Life behind bars: it's more than just pouring drinks

Everyone knows the story of Charlottesville's most famous bartender, you know, that musician guy who worked at Miller's before becoming a world renowned rock star... what's his name?

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The week in review

Latest hotel death: The body of Laura Daly, 46, is found in the Red Roof Inn January 22 along with David Highfield, 63, who was unconscious and is in intensive care at UVA ...

Dumb and dumber: Silly stuff that's supposed to be green

With the recent Detroit Automotive Show focusing on electrics and the Sierra Club having an electric car columnist, America continues to believe technology will save us. Le...

What's your favorite place to get a drink?

Related story: January 26 cover story: "Life behind bars: it's more than just pouring drinks"

High Expectations

12/15/11 Albemarle Dolly Prenzel to Anne Hilton, 1706 Old Forge Road, $359,000 Promised Land LLC to Piedmont Realty Holdings I LLC, 1570, 1572, 1574, 1576, 1578, 1...

Quieter side: Montvue ranch sprawls like its land

Address: 2700 Magnolia DriveNeighborhood: Montvue in Albemarle CountyAsking: $559,000Assessment: $467,200Year Built: 1960Size: 4,676 fin. sq. ft.Land: 4.538 acresAgent...

Property auctions

January 26 at 1pm at the Albemarle CourthouseProperty: 70 Churchill Lane Debtor: Matthew J. and Jennifer K. Carson Original amount owing: $255,000 Bidder brings...

'Red Tails' soars with entertainment but lacks meaning

The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter pilots who were trained despite the racism entrenched in the U.S. armed services at the time, were deployed in ...

Biscuit Run reform: Deeds would loosen secrecy... some

In Virginia, tax returns are so sacred that a section of code forbids state officials from revealing individual info– even if those individuals have reaped millions o...
Judge quits: Berry goes to Allen & Allen

The chief judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, which includes Albemarle and Charlottesville, has been hired as managing partner for the Charlottesville office of...
Local legislators: Tebow, triggermen among their bills

Every January, the six men representing the gerrymandered chunks of Albemarle and Charlottesville (and Rustburg!) head east on I-64 to participate in Virginia's part-time l...
Mann act: 'Hockey stick' scientist returns to UVA

"It's not wrong to be wrong," says Michael Mann, author of the famous "hockey stick graph," the controversial image of a recent spike in global temperatures.
Pain and frustration: Two years later, 'We know her agonies'

They'll never have their daughter back, but for the parents of murdered Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, the unsolved status of the case two years after her body wa...
Peace seeking: Council tells Congress to stay out of Iran

After a variety of speakers pointed out how they'd warned against the war in Iraq before it started, a majority on the Charlottesville City Council voted to send a message ...

Green monster: UVA's ped-stopping fence claims a victim

It took 12 years, but an overnight impalement indicates that the so-called "Green Monster" has claimed its first injury victim. Fire Chief Charles Werner reports that rescu...
Table of contents

COVERKeeping tabsSure they keep the drinks flowing, but bartenders do so much more. Part therapist, part cop, part hostess with the mostest, the men and women behind the ba...
Video: Chinese New Year at Chang's

Jaquith omitted most shop-local benefits

Full disclosure: I own a local business. So you can imagine my disappointment when the Hook chose to run an essay that actively discourages shopping locally, [Janis Jaquith...

Quercus phellos

Does anyone know the value of these trees? I heard that the timber at Ragged Mountain Natural Area– soon slated for a mega-reservoir– didn’t have much value,...