April 19th, 2012 issue #1116
April 19th, 2012
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Wasted gateway: How the City (mis)treats the Belmont Bridge
Related stories: • Belmont vortex: Vision vs. reality in Belmont Bridge debate • Have you used the Belmont Bridge lately? • 7,000 new cars: CSX stocks up for tripled coal exports
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Most protests: Dozens object to UVA's use of cats to practice infant intubation at an April 12 demonstration in front of the Rotunda that includes former mayor Dave Norris,...
The Dish
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'Mother' calling: Celebrity chef Alice Waters to visit Monticello
Okay, hard-core foodies, fasten your seat belts. Monticello just announced that Alice Waters, widely hailed as the "mother of American cooking" and the American pioneer in ... -
Growing trend: Zynodoa puts the farm on the table
There's a growing trend, literally, among chefs and restaurant owners to source food from their own gardens and small farms, but few seem to be embracing that idea quite li...
Essays
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Silly panic: The fuss over a 'minority white' nation
More by Ron Bailey • Gas, not water: A better fracking way to tap shale • Germ theory: What if disease causes autocracy? • How many? Numbers suggest a low terror dea...
Real Estate - $old
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Long listing in Ivy subdivision
Albemarle 2/29/12 Christopher P. & Rumana Whynott to Norman G. Levine & Louise Westervelt, 2611 Fernleaf Road, $360,000 T. Scott Collins to Jeffery Pau...
Real Estate - On the Block
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Labor of love: Covesville Victorian renovated by neighbor
Address: 5502 Monacan Trail RoadNeighborhood: Covesville in southern AlbemarleAsking: $275,000Assessment: $140,600Year Built: 1870Size: 2,816 finished sq. ft., 0 unfi...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
April 20 at 10am at the Albemarle CourthouseProperty: 1485 Beaconhill, AftonDebtor: Ray and Marticia Michelle MathiasOriginal amount owing: $150,000Bidder brings: 10 percen...
Movie Reviews
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Empathetic realism: Belgian brothers avoid sentimentality
The Kid with a Bike Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Starring: Thomas Doret, Cecile de France, Jeremie Renier Playing: Vinegar Hill in French, with English subtitle...
Contents
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Table of contents
COVERNeglectedWith all the talk about replacing the Belmont Bridge, the Hook takes a closer look at why it might need replacing. A clue: If the Belmont Bridge were a child,...
News
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A time to sentence: Huguely fate to be finalized August 30
During a brief but at times testy 25-minute hearing in Charlottesville Circuit Court, convicted murderer George W. Huguely V, received a sentencing date of 1pm on August 30... -
Baffling: nTelos Pavilion gets sound upgrade
Crews take down the old acoustic panels at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in anticipation of a new set of panels to baffle sound away from adjacent neighborhoods and focus it... -
Belmont rocked: Neighborhood drug ring smashes stereotypes
With its trendy restaurants, remodeled houses, and close proximity to downtown, Belmont has enjoyed at least a decade as the hip district for Charlottesville's young profes... -
Drowning in debt? Water litigator warns of future shocks
Citizens who have seen their water bills triple over the past decade are facing another wave of price hikes and a suddenly-doubled debt load that could cause financial trou... -
Gone global: Hunter and his World Peace game soar
If there were a competition for the most modest man in Charlottesville, teacher and World Peace Game creator John Hunter and local filmmaker Chris Farina would be neck-and-... -
Mud fun: 2,400 humans, one bull turn out for Mud Warrior
Participants came prepared to leap over flames, scale walls, and wade through mud, but several runners in the first-ever Mud Warrior mud race faced an unexpected obstacle: ... -
Muzzle time: VA prisons receive life sentence in censorship
Related stories: • Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work? • Protester removal: Boar's Head denies ordering trespassing arrest -
Overcharged? Capitol protesters weigh community service deal
A Richmond prosecutor has dropped the unlawful assembly charge against 30 protesters arrested last month on the steps of the state Capitol and offered a community service d... -
Spellbound at the Paramount
A team called "Spellbound" from the Daily Progress won Wordplay, a benefit cultural literacy game at the Paramount Theater Wednesday night. The April 11 event was organized... -
Tea Party rallies on tax day
Three years ago, the Jefferson Area Tea Party tax day rally filled what is now the nTelos Wireless Pavilion. On April 16, a smaller band of citizens assembled at the Free S... -
Trunk show: Market Street resident protests spruce felling
There's something about Market Street, something that seems to prompt otherwise law-abiding citizens to embark upon civil disobedience despite the prospect of getting haule...
Online only
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Tom Tom takes McGuffey
The downtown block party to kick off a month's worth of events for the inaugural Tom Tom Founders Festival took place as planned April 13 with a blocked-off Second Street N...
Facetime
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American garden: Peter Hatch and the restoration of Jefferson's landscape
Peter Hatch is all over the place this month. He's in Washington to help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House vegetable garden, he's in San Francisco for a Garde...
Black and White
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Tom Tom Founders Festival
Beer, music, food, people, perfect weather, and a bear-in-progress (by sculptor Ed Miller), as the Festival kicked off on Friday, April 13 with a block party at the McGuffe...