January 10th, 2013 issue #1202
January 10th, 2013
-
Missing: Inside the Dashad Smith investigation
At the Preston Avenue Shell Station, a few blocks from the apartment Dashad "Sage" Smith last occupied on Harris Street, his name is familiar and his disappearance is on people's minds. "He used to come in here every day," says a woman working the register, as another cashier nods. "He was quiet," the woman recalls. "Never caused any problems like some customers. I sure hope they find him." -
Timeline: Tracking the Dashad Smith case
November 20, late afternoon: Smith talks to father, Dean Smith, for 37 minutes.
4Better Or Worse
-
The week in review
Newest BoV member: Governor Bob McDonnell appoints prominent UVA/McDonnell donor Bill Goodwin to the Board of Visitors. Goodwin has served on the BoV before, and this fall,...
The Dish
-
Hungry? Deliciousness is coming your way
Okay, so I'm sitting around trying to think about what to write for this week's Dish and the food photos from the restaurants participating in the Hook's Restaurant Week fr...
Essays
-
View, interrupted: It's unneighborly to start a row
Oh, you should have seen me. It was a double-take right out of vaudeville. (Had I been drinking from my water bottle, I guarantee it would have been a spit-take.) As I skid...
Question of the Week
Real Estate - $old
-
Quick sale on Country Lane
9/7/12 Albemarle Woodlands of Charlottesville LLC to Edgar Lara, 1635 Elmwood Court, Unit 203, $173,700 NVR, Inc. to Leah E. Hernandez, 4529 Briarwood Drive, $287,135 Craig...
Real Estate Property auctions
-
Property auctions
January 11 at 4:30pm at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 1810 Steeplechase Run Debtor: Beverly and Thomas M. Allebrandi II Original amount owing: $261,599 Bidder br...
Movie Reviews
-
Zero Dark flashy: Bin Laden movie intrigues, doesn't illuminate
Osama bin Laden is dead, which everybody knows, and the principal facts leading up to that are also well-known. The decision to market "Zero Dark Thirty as a thriller the...
Contents
-
Table of contents
COVERSearch for SageThe grief over the disappearance of Charlottesville teen Dashad "Sage" Smith is compounded by questions over whether Charlottesville Police are conducti...
News
-
'Outrageous misconduct': Hash sues Culpeper prosecutor, sheriff
After spending nearly 12 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Michael Wayne Hash filed a civil lawsuit in federal court December 28 against Culpeper's top cops:... -
2013 Fiction contest: Grisham's ready for you!
2013 Hook Short Story Contest Deadline: 5pm on Tuesday, February 5 We don't mess around and don't observe postmarks; the manuscript must be in the Hook newsroom by this t... -
Dragas vote: Will rector keep her job?
The turmoil at the University of Virginia that began in June with the firing of President Teresa Sullivan continues six months later with the upcoming General Assembly conf... -
The walls on the Garage go up, up, up
The Garage, Charlottesville's tiniest all-purpose venue, was the victim of a car smashing through its walls in September from the Hill and Wood Funeral Service parking lot....
Online only
-
Former Boy Scout leader, alleged Fashion Square abductor in court
David Brian Watkins, the former Boy Scout leader charged with the forcible sodomy of a juvenile November 28, waived a preliminary hearing in Albemarle Juvenile and Domestic...
CultureVulture
-
Gun-totin' teachers
Related story.
Black and White
-
New year, new tune
With trademark hair and epic beard, the man known to many as "Harmonica Dave" rang in the new year with another street performance on the Downtown Mall. ~Commentator Bill ...
Cultural preview
-
Get Out! events, shows, things to do
"I'm a voodoo child baby, I don't take no for an answer"