November 22nd, 2012 issue #1147

November 22nd, 2012

  • We Love This Place: Shopkeepers, citizens dish on local holiday tradition

    The Hook's editorial staff takes a break this week from producing the hard-hitting news you've grown accustomed to (at least in the cover story), choosing instead to check in with local shop owners and citizens to ask them how they celebrate the holidays in Charlottesville, and where they go to find gifts for their loved ones.

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4Better Or Worse

  • The week in review

    Most disruptive: Occupiers interrupt City Council November 18 following the public comment portion of the meeting, and police escort two of them out, the first time any...

The Dish

Essays

Question of the Week

Real Estate - $old

  • Elevator gives Ednam sale a boost

    8/2/12CharlottesvilleRuth Ann Hill to Lynne Whitter, 211 5th Street SW, Unit 105, $267,000 Collison Royer, Trustee, MPARNWE Land Trust to Christopher Desteli, 1112 Leonard ...

Real Estate - On the Block

  • Space galore: Room to grow in Louisa

    Address: 247 River Crest RoadNeighborhood: Mountain View Estates (Louisa)Asking: $279,900Assessment: $254,900 Year Built: 1996Size:  3,059 finished sq. ft. /576 unfini...

Real Estate Property auctions

  • Property auctions

    November 28 at 1:45pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 3849 Lake Park Road, Earlysville Debtor: Anthony and Kelly A. Bilotta Original amount owing: $335,884 Bidd...

Movie Reviews

  • Spielberg's Lincoln does not disappoint

    I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's Lincoln that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Ind...

Contents

  • Table of contents

    COVERLovin' itThe holidays are here, and with them comes plenty of good cheer. We checked in with a slew of folks who know this town well to find out what they love about t...

News

  • A white deer on the prowl

    A white deer, appearing to be an albino white-tailed buck, recently ventured in the Western Albemarle yard of Susan Heald, who snapped this image on the morning of November...

  • Boyd's Crossing: 3-mile Old Mills Trail finally open for business

    Last week, a new 3-mile trail was opened along the Rivanna River, the Old Mills Trail, that connects Darden Towe Park to the new Martha Jefferson Hospital, and is designed ...

  • High water? Autumn Hill residents question $180 bill

    Tara Stankovic and Scott Lester have lived in Autumn Hill apartment complex for three years and say their water and sewer bill for their two-bedroom apartment would typical...

  • Kitze acquitted: Judge vents, but rules for rapist

    The man known as the "graduation rapist" was found not guilty of probation violation November 13 by a judge who said he fully expects Jeffrey Kitze to be back in court agai...

  • Lyle Lovett and his guitar play the Paramount

    Noted Americana artist Lyle Lovett gave an acoustic show at the Paramount Theater on Wednesday, November 14. He graciously let photographer Milo Farineau capture the first ...

  • Movie wars II: Carmike fights back with $1.50 flicks

    The recent opening of the Stonefield Regal 14 has hit Charlottesville movie theaters like a tidal wave, with the 4-screen Regal Seminole already closed and the downtown Reg...

  • Twinkies crisis hits locally

    Shortly after Twinkies-provider Hostess Brands announced it was ceasing production Friday, November 16, the iconic cream-filled cakes were being sold on eBay. By Saturday, ...

  • Unsolved, unforgotten: Retired Harrington investigator pens letter

    Nearly a year after he retired from Virginia State Police, leaving one of the highest-profile unsolved crimes in Virginia history to his successors, the former supervisor o...

  • Up on the roof

    Two years ago, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved bond-backed spending of up to $6.7 million (including structural, fire-suppression, and elevator modifi...

CultureVulture

Black and White

  • Big top, big prep

    Workers install snow ropes on the canopy of the nTelos Wireless Pavillion in preparation for winter weather– a safety feature for the the folks that will later manu...

Cultural preview