March 21st, 2013 issue #1212
March 21st, 2013
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Fiction contest winner: 'The Cliff'
By Charles McRavenThey rode in as if they owned the place, and within five minutes, they did. Thirty Union soldiers, commanded by a captain, spreading out over the farm, posting sentries. Ophelia stood on her porch and watched it happen, knowing absolutely that there was nothing she could do, or should have done, to stop it. There’d been no warning, no frightened neighbors rushing by to safety to scream at her to get out. The men had the bold ruthlessness of invaders, the certainty that nothing would oppose them. -
John Carlos: The silence heard round the world
When John Carlos was a seven- or eight-year-old growing up in Harlem, he had a vision of that moment on the victory stand in Mexico City at the 1968 Olympics, even down to using his left hand rather than his usual right. He imagined he was in a movie. That premonition became an iconic image 15 years later when 200-meter bronze-medal winner Carlos and gold medalist Tommie Smith stood in front of the world and gave a Black Power salute. -
The write stuff: Meet the winners!
Writing takes discipline, to be sure– just ask the Hook's famed contest judge John Grisham, who spends hours every single day at the keyboard, and has more than two dozen best sellers to his name.
4Better Or Worse
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The week in review
Latest slam on the BoV's June debacle: The American Association of University Professors releases a report on Rector Helen Dragas' firing of President Teresa Sullivan and...
The Dish
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Haute Chinese: Chang celebrates top ten honors
When the editors of Travel & Leisure Magazine set out earlier this year to find the best Chinese restaurants in America, they had a daunting task. There are now over 41...
Essays
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
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Spotlight on Farmington
Area: Farmington Price range: $575,000-$5,900,000 Schools: Murray, Henley, Western Albemarle Pros: location, amenities, beautiful neighborhood Cons: high cost of...
Real Estate Property auctions
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Property auctions
March 21 at 11:30am at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: Verizon Wireless Building 874 Rio East Court Debtor: Oliver Enterprises LLC Original amount owing: unknown B...
Movie Reviews
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Incredible Carell: If Michael Scott were a magician
by Richard RoeperWelcome back, Hilarious Jim Carrey. We've missed you.In The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a predictable but often terrific absurdist comedy, Carrey plays S...
News
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Deaton: Candidate calls for moratorium on death penalty prosecutions
Calling the death penalty "barbaric," Steve Deaton, candidate for commonwealth's attorney in Charlottesville, wants a moratorium on prosecutions that could lead to death ro... -
Firefight: details emerge in Downtown Mall shooting
Early Saturday morning, March 16, at approximately 12:45am, three gunshots rang out on Second Street NW on the Downtown Mall, between the offices of the Hook and the Elks L... -
Senator Snowe got the memo
Senator Olympia Snowe's magenta jacket matched perfectly with the hair of Emily Couric scholarship finalist Page Grissom from Murray High School at the March 18 Omni lunche... -
Snowe mobile: Former Maine senator speaks at Emily Couric lunch
Once upon a time, "moderate Republican" was not considered an oxymoron. An example of that rare breed, former Maine Senator Olympia Snowe, was in Charlottesville March 18 a... -
Stream of memories
Two months after beloved local photographer Philip Beaurline died of complications relating to the flu, his widow, Marie, and son, Anders, were by the Rivanna River in Dard... -
Trip trouble: Kroboth remains jailed as travel permit questioned
An unwelcome January visit to his college-aged son in Oregon has already cost Kurt Kroboth two months of freedom, and a judge ruled on Wednesday, March 13, that the convict... -
Vinegar Hill: Building goes on the block
First the what's-playing sign was missing from the side of Vinegar Hill Theatre. Then a for-sale sign appeared, leaving loyal moviegoers wondering if their favorite cinema ...
Facetime
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Peace plan: Scott Atran talks to terrorists
Scott Atran runs with a rough, international crowd– jihadis, mujahideen, and lashkars– otherwise known as Islamic fundamentalists, otherwise known as terrorists...
Letters
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Letter: New skatepark for kids or adults?
It will be interesting to see if the new skateboard park [Hook March 7, 2013, article, "Pop-shove-it! Charlottesville skate park re-opens in McIntire] will be designed for ...
Black and White
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Luce
Neighborhood dog by the name of Luce. Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo nearly every day at billemory.com/blog.
Cultural preview
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Get Out! events, shows, things to do
"You know the kind of joke that's super-hilarious but also points in some genius way to the whole thing of the universe? Like that."—Daniel Handler, on Paul Legault's The...