January 17th, 2013 issue #1203

January 17th, 2013

Luckily Local: Stomachs, get ready to rumble!

There's a running joke here in the newsroom about using "fresh ingredients" in our stories, taken from the often-used phrase in restaurant promotions, which is basically code for meaningless filler. In Charlottesville, however, when we say that restaurants use fresh ingredients, that's a legitimate use of the phrase. Why? Well, I remember talking with former Boar's Head chef Doug Knopp back in 2006, as he berated corporate chicken plants that use steroids and extolled the virtues of local organic farmers like Joel Salatin (pictured) of Polyface Farm near Staunton.

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The week in review

Best connecting the dots: The common thread for controversial UVA Rector Helen Dragas' top supporters– Governor Bob McDonnell, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, and for...

Road to ruin: Cutting gas tax a disastrous plan

The first rule of holes is when you find yourself in one, quit digging.

Final price reduction spurs sale

9/14/12 Albemarle Haas Associates, Ltd. to John Haas, 3.86 Acres, TM 58-33, $25,000 Jessica Swope & John Spagnolo to Karen L. Love, 1320 Pin Oak Court, $205,000 Deutsc...

Cabin fever: Rustic charm minutes from downtown

Address: 1979 Old Lynchburg RoadAsking: $395,000Assessment: $343,000Year Built: 1980Size: 1200 finished sq. ft., 800 unfinishedLand: 6.78 acresCurb Appeal: 8 out of 1...

Property auctions

January 23 at 10am at the Charlottesville Circuit Court Property: 302 11th Street NW Debtor: Teresa D. Caddell Original amount owing: $159,000 Bidder brings: $15,...

Beauty in age: 'Amour' charms its audience

"Old age ain't no place for sissies," Bette Davis is said to have said, and the longer age lasts, the less of a sissy you can be. The opening shot of Amour, Michael Ha...

Table of contents

COVERYum!If you notice people walking around with their belts undone and a glazed expression on their faces over the next week, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation: ...

'Flipped out': Insulin-injecting Crozet woman pleads guilty

Two days before her 34th birthday, Theresa Lynn Brady, the mother of two young children and wife of an Albemarle Fire and Rescue captain, entered a guilty plea for attempte...
Baldi arrested: Accused embezzler nabbed in California

Former Bel Rio Restaurant owner Jim Baldi, who has been on the run since July 2010 after police issued a warrant for his arrest on a felony embezzlement charge, has been ar...
Chairman of the board: Fuhgeddaboudit when 29 bypass involved

If tradition had been upheld on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, Duane Snow would be chairman. Instead, at its first meeting of the year, the usually decorous board got ...
Dead or alive: The Hook's legislative watch

Week 1 of the 46-day General Assembly 2013 session has begun, with legislators filing 2,208 bills. While most will die quietly in subcommittee, some will slip through and b...
Game over: Charge in soccer biting case dropped

Former Fluco Katrina Ditta was supposed to be in Albemarle Circuit Court January 9 to appeal her conviction for allegedly biting a Western Albemarle soccer player during a ...

Ape the apes: Gorilla diet could save your life

Q. Guess who primatologist Kristen Lucas and her PhD student E.L. put on a crash diet, with great success. –D. FosseyA. Two gorillas at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, repo...

Selfless servant: Dragas got a raw deal

Having been a neutral observer to the “Sullivan Spectacle,” I would ask objective parties to note the following, all of which have been reported individually, but not c...

Tree sentries

A row of red cedar, scientific name juniperus virginiana, stand guard on a farm in Green Springs National Historic District in Louisa County. Known as "pioneer invaders," t...