Balance of power: What's at stake in the 2011 elections

Oct 20

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The week in review
Best sign Louisa may be cursed: A tornado touches down southeast Gordonsville around 3:30pm October 13, ripping the roof off historic Sylvania, a house on the James Madison...

The Dish

El Vaquero roping them in
It appears a new Mexican place in the former Amigo's space in the Woodbrook Shopping Center has some fans. It's rare that Dish gets emails from foodies begging us to mentio...
Ragazzi's, Toliver House close
The local and not-so-local restaurant scene suffered a couple of casualties recently. A fixture in the Shopper's World Shopping Center along Route 29, Ragazzi's Italian Res...
Video premiere: "Evening at l’étoile Restaurant"
Over the years, Dish has written extensively about l’étoile Restaurant on West Main Street and its ambitious owner/chef Mark Gresge, a pioneer in bringing fresh local pr...

Essays

ABC...F: What's wrong with state alcohol laws
By Don Harrison "The ABCs of Virginia Alcohol Law” packs an awful lot of absurdity into its five-minute running time. The award-winning short-form documentary, made by ...

Question of the Week

Real Estate - $old

Lengthy process
8/24/11 Theresa Sennewald to Matthew Kahal & Candace Abel, 1108 Pheasant Crossing, $415,000, Albemarle Poplar Glen LLC to Joseph & Carol Flynn, 513 Tulip Tree Court...

Real Estate - On the Block

Call it done: Fontana colonial is move-in ready
Address: 2059 Aviano WayNeighborhood: Fontana Asking: $453,000 Assessment: $388,900 ...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions
October 20 at 8:30am at the Albemarle Courthouse Property: 4328 Mount Alto Road, Esmont Debtor: Dona G. Hildebrand Original amount owing: $37,000 Bidder brings: $3,000 or 1...

Art Features

Down under water: Watson looks below the surface
Riding shotgun in a tiny plane flying low over Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one my favorite memories. As the pilot took a serpentine course back and forth across the f...

DR. HooK

Ewwww: Body odor can have serious causes
Gyms smell like sweat, as they should! But most of us draw the line when people smell like old socks. Some folks don’t change their gym clothes for days— or weeks.I use...

Movie Reviews

Retread: 'Footloose' remake out of step
There's one thing to be said for a remake of a 1984 movie that uses the original screenplay. This 2011 version is so similar – sometimes song for song and line for li...

Music Features

Duo interview: Inside the sweet harmony of the Civil Wars
In a way, Joy Williams and John Paul White owe their success to uncertainty. Williams had stepped away from her career as a Christian artist and White had seen his debut al...

News

'It is war': Harringtons vow at murder's two-year anniversary
The parents of murder victim Morgan Dana Harrington marked the two-year anniversary of their 20-year-old daughter's mysterious abduction with stern words for the killerR...
Dang money: Protests on the Mall, UVA, Lee Park
Taking a page from the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that has been sweeping the nation, a small group of protesters occupied Central Place on the Downtown Mall Friday, Octo...
Guilty as charged: Cobbs vows appeal in two-plant pot case
In a decision that sends a strong message that drugs must be rooted out at any cost, the Albemarle citizen recently arrested after a SWAT team found a pair of pot plants in...

On Architecture

New view: Photog captures tornado-smashed 'Sylvania' from sky
The tornado that roared through the Green Springs Historic District of triple-punched Louisa County gave Hook contributing photographer Skip Degan an opportunity to pilot a...
Stonefield stalemate: Is the Trader Joe's design appropriate?
While it has been impossible to miss the massive earth-moving project at the site of the future mega-commercial center known as Stonefield (previously Albemarle Place), the...

The Brazen Careerist

Management 101: Handle your conflict, your staff, your life
All managers have one shared goal: get a promotion. But many times, a manager's job is so multifaceted and detail-laden that the manager loses sight of that big picture. He...

Sports Doctor

They're off: Colonial Downs a disgrace to VA racing
It’s always seemed odd that Virginia, birthplace of Secretariat and home of some of the world’s most beautiful horse country, has never had much in the way of horse rac...

Strange But True

Lion's share: It doesn't mean what you think
Q. When will a lion settle for a lion's share? –J. AdamsonA. Depends on which "lion's share" you're talking about, says Mark Davidson in Right, Wrong, and Risky. The phra...

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Table of contents
COVERBalance of powerRemember when the greenies were in charge of County government? Well, that was one late-night Bypass ago. Now there are two contested seats on the Boar...

Facetime

Scrappy work: Preston recreates '20s in graphic book
If Caroline Preston had a time machine, she'd take it back to the 1920s. Instead, the Charlottesville author has brought the 1920s to today by channelling a lifelong collec...

Letters

Parents ignored over 'glitchy' system
Thanks so much for "Glitchy System: Inside the student software debacle," [the September 15 cover story] by Dave McNair. This is, unfortunately, the sad truth. A group of p...
Scalping began under the British
Your cartoonist who recently made weak humor [Linda Sherman in the September 1 "Culture Vulture" feature] based on the stereotype that "Indians" scalp people is apparently ...

Black and White

Water, water, everywhere
Workers from TriState Utilities reline 8-inch diameter wastewater pipe from an access point at 10th and Market Streets. To prevent infiltration and exfiltration related t...

Full Stories List for October 20th, 2011 issue #1042

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