Babes in boyland: Local women mean business
You’ve come a long way, baby– at least since Virginia Slims built an ad campaign around the notion that having their own brand of cigarettes gave women a step toward equality with men. True, only six Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. And women’s earning power still is not even 75 percent of men’s, according to 1999 U.S. Department of Labor figures.
Agnes Cross-White, 53, Editor/publisher, The Tribune
Amy Griffith, 40, Owner/manager, Van on the Go
Ann Taylor, 43, COO, Gold Violin
Blair Williamson, 36, Vice President, S.L. Williamson
Cheri Lewis, 40, President and founder, The Closing Company
Debbie Wyatt, 52, Criminal/civil/constitutional lawyer
Genevieve Murphy, 68, Priest, Buck Mountain Episcopal Church
Greer Wilson, 59, President, Greer and Company
Joan Schatzman, 50, Owner, Joan Schatzman Painting
Kandi Kessler Comer, 39, Director of golf, Glenmore
Suzanne Jessup Staton, 49, Executive vice president, Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Central Virginia
Suzanne Jessup Staton, 49, Executive vice president, Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Central Virginia
4Better Or Worse
Best—er– worst sex scandal of the week: Speaker of the House of Delegates and nearby Amherst resident Vance Wilkins allegedly pays $100,000 to the female victim of ...
The Dish
Virginia winemakers have the Governor’s Cup competition, but until last week, Virginia beer brewers were left thirsting for a contest of their own. No longer. Thanks to S...
Essays
By Neil Steinberg
Real Estate - On the Block
ASKING: $299,000SIZE: 1,800 square feetYEAR BUILT: 1993ADDRESS: 1749 Rock Quarry RoadNEIGHBORHOOD: Zion CrossroadsCURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10LISTED BY: Deborah Murd...
Movie Reviews
Here's a no-brainer: Scooby-Doo, why are you?You've got your GenXers with happy memories of the 1969-72 TV series and its spinoffs, and some of them have children of their ...
Music Reviews
By Damani Harrison
News
Day of reckoning: CHS teens face the music
There is one more aggravation for the four college students assaulted by city teenagers in January who went to Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Court June 4 for the se...
By Susanna Henighan
Strike a deal: Boxerjam marries into Progress family
The staff of Boxerjam was literally sweating last week before the announcement that the company had been acquired by Media General, Inc. Was it because they feared the deal...
Strange But True
Q: I’ve heard that for some of his stunts, Harry Houdini first had to master control of his "gag reflex." What was the point of that? –L. LovelaceA: To free himself fro...
Letters
Ron Chandler argues that the arrival of such competition as Whole Foods "definitely made a difference" in the fortunes of his health food store ["Peculiar' health food stor...
Unlimited thrift marked the spot
Enjoyed the news item on the demise of Unlimited Vitality. [June 6: "Peculiar' health food store is no more."]Guess there was a limit after all! The owners often made me wo...
Cultural preview
School’s out, and so begins the scramble for summertime fun. Seasoned parents know most of the options, but every once in a while something pops up on the radar that is s...
The summer I turned nine, my mother started taking my siblings and I into the city to go to the public library. Books could be checked out for three weeks, so that’s how ...
If your chosen medium is encaustic, as is the case with Kristin Onuf, you make art by layering hot wax. As Onuf helpfully points out, the word, “encaustic” derives from...
By Elizabeth Kiem
As the summer temperatures heat up, so do the offerings on local stages. In Charlottesville, summer is the time for theater activity. Live Arts brings on their souped-up ve...
By Mark Grabowski
By Mara Rockliff
Full Stories List for June 13th, 2002 issue #0119
4Better Or Worse
News
Cover Stories
Cultural preview
Music Reviews
Essays
Letters
Movie Reviews
Photophile
Real Estate - On the Block
The Dish
Strange But True
The Fearless Consumer
