Busted stuff: Some broken things in town

Jun 17

Yeah, yeah, Charlottesville is pretty great, and it won't be long before every last man, woman, and child in the nation knows it, thanks to all those darn Best-Place-to-Live lists that keep putting our town on top. So, sure, it's great. But it's not perfect– and we've dug up a bunch of busted stuff to prove it.

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The week in review
Biggest capital campaign: UVA announces plans to raise $3 billion by 2011. Biggest donation to Monticello: $15 million from Robert and Clarice Smith to endow the Rob...

The Dish

Belmont: The Key West of Charlottesville?
What does Belmont have in common with the relaxed, margarita- and music-laced isle of Key West? At least the last time I checked, Charlottesville's trendiest neighborhood l...

Essays

Reagan: On the right side of history
The long-expected death of Ronald Reagan is not just the passing of a president; it is also the passing of an era, or rather, a farewell to an era long past– an era o...

Real Estate - $old

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ALBEMARLE 4/28 Tess Johnson to W. Nathaniel Howell, 12.20 acres in Rivanna district, $60,000. Peter D. Nielsen to Jeannie L. Miller, lot at Murphy's Creek Farm, $24...

Real Estate - On the Block

Jungle fever: Greenery creates an Eden
ADDRESS: 2519 Fall Fields Drive ASKING: $675,000 SIZE: 3,691 fin. sq. ft., 840 unfin. YEAR BUILT: 1989 NEIGHBORHOOD: Proffit Road CURB APPEAL: 9 out of a possible 10 LISTED...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions
June 23, at 3pm, at the Greene County Courthouse Property: 3.06 acres at 326 New Life Road, Ruckersville Debtor: unknown Amount owing: $118,700 Bidder brings: $10,000 or 1...

Movie Reviews

Time warp: Keeping mama in the dark
If ever a movie was meant to be seen on Mother's Day, it's Good Bye Lenin! Germany's submission for this year's Academy Awards. (It didn't get an Oscar nomination, but it w...

Music Reviews

Vega-esque: Something in the way she grooves...
Finally Wokenby Jem(ATO) Though singer/songwriter Jem's tie to this town is rather tenuous– she is signed to ATO Records, the label started by Dave Matthews, the omni...

News

Backhoed: Vandals trash Monticello graduation
Monticello High has never had an outdoor graduation since it opened its doors in 1998, and this year's senior class had its fingers crossed for one. The chairs and stage we...
Big top Coran: Councilors vote yes on Capshaw pavilion
Charlottesville officials are thrilled to have nailed down a deal to have Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw run the downtown amphitheater, a venture they estimate wi...
Bonnaroo found: Hackensaws heading home
MANCHESTER, TENN– It's been a busy few weeks for Charlottesville's Hackensaw Boys, who like 100,000 music fans, drove eight and a half hours through the night to Manc...
Quash game: How many subpoenas does a code violation need?
Some defense attorneys in murder cases don't issue as many subpoenas as attorney Fred Payne has in his defense of alleged razor-wire stringer Shirley Presley. Presley isn't...
Whistle pop: C&O will compete 'fiercely'
The mom and pop business that wants to take over the historic mainline of the C&O railroad will pay $140,000 a year for the privilege– plus pay all the real estat...

The Brazen Careerist

Betrayal: E-mail can do you wrong
Last week I met my boss face-to-face for the first time. I've been working with him for more than two years– via phone and e-mail. I had never seen him, but I had a g...

Strange But True

Height right: To stand under your man
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK

Facetime

Mountain man: Holden leads store to new heights
If a movie's ever made about a man who's stranded in unforgiving, isolated territory, who's forced to live off the land while fighting off rabid coyotes and insane drifters...

Hotseat

Oliver's twist: Developer or activist?
At six-feet, four-inches tall, 230 pounds, and with a tiny remnant of a German accent left over from his European childhood, downtown developer Oliver Kuttner could present...

Letters

Gay ban earns cancellation
I was disturbed and incredulous when I read the article about the two women who were denied an engagement announcement in The Daily Progress. [June 3: " No Progress: Gay we...
Phish great, says Fowler
I would just like to comment on the excerpt you recently ran on the band Phish breaking up. [June 3: "Phish farewell: Dead's heir band to quit"]. Clearly the person who wro...
Scott and Compton not folkies
I resent the fact that any female with a guitar is referred to as a "folk singer." [June 3 music review: "Feminine mystique: Gravity missing at Gravity"]. Neither Kathy Com...

Full Stories List for June 17th, 2004 issue #0324

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