September 20th, 2012 issue #1138

September 20th, 2012

Second cooling: Behind the new frozen yogurt craze

Just two years ago, locally owned Arch's Frozen Yogurt, with locations on Ivy Road, the Corner, and Emmet Street, was the only fro-yo game in town. Today, there are three new regional franchises serving the stuff, and one already has three locations–- Sweet Frog (Downtown, Barracks, Hollymead), Bloop (Pantops), and Berry Berry (the Corner). And it might be only a matter of time before the big national players, Pinkberry and Yogurtland, take up residence.

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The week in review

Latest BoV gaffe: UVA foregoes the chance to entice a $20-million donor with naming rights to build a new wing for the cramped University Art Museum when it accepts the a...

Freezing eggs: The path to female reproductive equality

More and more women are waiting until they are older to have children. Why? Because they are building their careers and waiting for Mr. Right. But what if Mr. Right fails t...

Road to sale proves rocky near Ivy

Albemarle 6/15/12 William A. Dawson to Dawn Dirks, 5840 Westhall Drive, $255,000 John & Ann Mytinger to Hunter C. & Mikael B. Chorey, 2804 Brookmere Road, $260,000 ...

Volume amid volume: Upscale home graces a casual neighborhood

Address: 3585 Morgantown RoadNeighborhood: IvyAsking: $649,000Assessment: $607,000Year Built: 1990Size: 5,997 finished sq. ft., 600 unfinished sq. ft.Land: 2.01...

Property auctions

September 26 at 11am at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 5333 Secretarys Sand Road, Esmont Debtor: Lewis H. Watkins Original amount owing: $70,074.99 Bidder brings: 10 pe...

For a good time, call...: Disarmingly entertaining, or just plain vulgar?

** For a Good Time, Call... starring: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long director: Jamie Travis playing: Regal Downtown R - 85 minutes

Table of contents

COVERHow sweet it isThe self-serve yogurt craze is full blown in Charlottesville, and locals are gobbling up the sweet stuff by the ounce, piling it high with fruit, candy,...

5th District race: Social issues 'a distraction,' says Hurt

The 5th District incumbent makes no bones about it: his traditional conservative values are a product of how he was raised. That would be in Chatham in southside Virginia, ...
Natural cause: Widower of slain motorist found dead

The Culpeper man who lost his wife in a controversial hail of police gunfire has died in mysterious, but perhaps not nefarious, circumstances. Gary D. Cook lived long enoug...
Presidential gag: UVA Board still trying to silence Sullivan

The days leading up to the first on-Grounds meeting of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors since their June debacle were tense. No public protests, but pre-meeting...
Street theater

Act I of The Madwoman of Chaillot is underway Friday evening, September 14, with the Bank of America as a backdrop. The show continues Thursdays-Saturdays at 6pm through Se...

Solid stream: UVA Visitors to televise themselves

After some particularly public prodding from a well-known local couple who took matters into their own hands, the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors plans to offer ...

Dramatic tension: Kielbasa counts down to opening night

Jody Kielbasa is tired. When we spoke with him, the Virginia Film Festival director had been in Richmond the previous night, trying to celebrate his wife's birthday while d...

Ayn Rand suitable for teens and Greenspan only

Thank you for your attention on Ayn Rand, however apologetic it might have been. [September 13 essay: "Ayn Rand: Her detractors miss her stellar vision"]
Rand and Romando massacre have something in common

Did anyone else notice the pairing in your September 13 print edition that assembles a hypothesis:Cause: Essayist's defense of Ayn Rand's proto-philosophy ["Ayn Rand: Her d...

WWJD

Historians and locals spend considerable energy asking what would Jefferson do (WWJD)? Jefferson aids that pursuit by his meticulously catalogued writings. Jefferson has be...