All that's Glitter's: Should a perv profit from Wahoo-wah?
It's the riff that's been pumping up UVA fans for years, energizing the Scott Stadium crowd pre-game when the Cavalier Marching Band plays its distinctive chords. And when it blares over the Scott Stadium loudspeakers after touchdowns, the crowd usually launches into a Stadium-wide chant: "U-V-A. Go Hoos, go." But hearing it makes at least one Cav fan very angry.
October 4th, 2012 issue #1140
News
Un-locked: Local NFL ref returns to the field
Former Albemarle supervisor David Wyant says he got the email at 3:30am Thursday morning. He was going back to work. Wyant, an NFL referee for 22 years (there are only seve...
Barnes Lumber: Mystery buyer revealed-- sorta
At a highly publicized foreclosure auction of J. Bruce Barnes Lumber in the heart of Crozet in June, the winning bid of $1.9 million bid came from an unidentified man who r...
Battleground VA: Romney, Ryan coming to Expoland
With the Old Dominion one of the battleground states in the race for the White House, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has slated a Central Virginia campaign appearance wi...
Featheridge reversal: Dragas backs out of Kluge mansion buy
Helen Dragas hasn't backed off the Board of Visitors, but she has backed out of purchasing an Albemarle estate that had been providing a home away from home in the bucolic ...
Last chance? Hundreds attend Western 29 Bypass forum
Opponents of the Western 29 Bypass, including mega-selling author John Grisham, turned out in force September 27 to voice their dismay with the controversial road. T...
McDonnell's desk: Governor gets clemency plea in Crozet killings
A little over a year after a man convicted in the 2003 slayings of a Crozet mother and son went public with his allegations that police put an innocent man in prison, the a...
Sewn up: Donald Trump finally gets Albemarle House
The lawsuit is over, the no-trespassing signs are down, and The Donald just may want to keep the place for his family. A little over a year after he began snapping up the s...
Targeting Dragas: 'Unpleasantness' not over yet, say legislators
Like a playwright struggling to finish a satisfying final act with characters who refuse to cooperate, State legislators, UVA faculty, and local citizens gathered at a "tow...
The Dish
Cville Oriental: Asian supermarket opens on U.S. 29
For about 15 years, the Charlottesville Oriental Food Market, a little place located on Carlton Road next to the Cville Market, offered an assortment of Asian foods, produc...
Iconic slices: Crozet Pizza comes to the Corner
Crozet Pizza is coming to the Corner on Elliewood Avenue sometime before Halloween. Now, that's pretty exciting news. The pizza is legendary, and students on the Corner are...
Moo-vin' on: Kirt's Ice Cream makes it local
Kirt and Ivy Gray used to own the Maggie Moo's ice cream and treatery franchise in the Hollymead Town Center, but they got tired of the corporate ball and chain attached to...
Southern revival: Sam's Kitchen returns... unchanged
Sam Jean is proof you can't keep a good restaurant man down. After opening in 1994 in the old Howard Johnson on The Corner (now the Red Roof Inn) and then moving to the old...
Essays
E pluribus me: I harbor hidden hordes
I thought I was a rugged individualist. Turns out, I’m not even an individual. And any ruggedness I may possess doesn’t arise from me. While browsing around on science ...
Real Estate - On the Block
On Secretarys Road: Homesteading possibilities with green amenities
Facetime
Backyard analogy: Prum celebrates 250... live and out loud
The author Deborah Prum has won awards– like the Hook's 2003 fiction contest. The musician Debby Prum is ready to have a hoedown. But Prum will bring other talents to...
