Gag me: Does censuring the censors really work?
It's not surprising that in Thomas Jefferson's hometown, the founding father's ideals are so vaunted that a Free Speech Monument stands in front of City Hall for citizens to express themselves. Individuals may erase each other’s messages; city government may not.
So when a mother complained about a lewd drawing, and the Charlottesville city manager ordered it erased–- in violation of the terms of the slate wall's donor, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression–- the obvious question for TJ watchers was whether the city manager would get the equivalent of the free speech walk of shame: a Jefferson Muzzle award.
4Better Or Worse
Worst commute: An overturned tractor-trailer on I-64 east of Charlottesville April 12 grinds the morning traffic to a standstill. Speediest way over Afton Mountain: A VDOT ...
Editor's Note
In this issue, our "On the Block" real estate column returns after a two-week hiatus. It was written for over a year by Sarah Jacobson with Susan Langenkamp filling in for ...
The Dish
Atlas shouts, TJ celebrates, Belmont slices, and a new CSA
We have the recession to thank for Atlas Coffee, on Fontaine Avenue, right beside Guadalajara in the old Jackson Hewitt Tax Service space, which opened on April 5, as owner...
Essays
Grounds swell: When anguished parents go campus-hopping
Ah, springtime. Forget robins. The true harbingers of spring in Charlottesville are the clusters of distressed families on The Lawn. They are enduring The College Visit.
Real Estate - $old
ALBEMARLE8/10Judith M. Cangialosi to Harold W. Hodson Jr., 522 Jester Lane, Camelot, $205,500.Isabelle B. Kaye, trustee, to Judith Cangialosi, condominium unit at 1178 Part...
Real Estate - On the Block
Space galore: Hidden Forest offers grand retreat
Address: 260 Forestvue DriveNeighborhood: Hidden Forest, EarlysvilleAsking: $745,000Assessment: $702,200Year Built: 2006Size: 3027 fin. sq. ft./2075 unfin.Land: 4.94 acresC...
Real Estate - Update
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: May 06, 2010 in issue 0918 of the HookADDRESS: 32 Old Farm Road, BellairASKING PRICE: $982,000 (was $1,090,000)ASSESSMENT: $902,700SELLER'S AGEN...
Real Estate Property auctions
April 14 at 2:15pm at the Albemarle County Courthouse Property: 1776 Old Lynchburg Road Debtor: James S. Mclinay and Mary L. Mclinay Amount owing: unknown Bidder brings: 10...
Art Features
Subject-object agreement: Students express visual vocabulary
Along with tulips and baseball’s return, the annual Charlottesville/Albemarle High School Art Show is one of the best things about spring. Currently on view in the McGuff...
DR. HooK
Medicine mess: Figuring the calculus of insurance plans
Math has always been a favorite subject of mine. Go figure, I’m Asian! However, in my teeny-tiny hometown in Ohio, we were lucky if we had an abacus or a protractor. Okay...
Movie Reviews
Indomitable: Soul Surfer inspirational, but realistic?
Soul Surfer is based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, a champion surfer who in her early teens was attacked by a shark and lost almost all her left arm. One month lat...
Music Features
Beleza, but not Brazil: Funkalicious duo finds its rhythm
When they brought their delicious and danceable Brazilian-inspired samba, blues, and funk to Charlottesville in the mid 2000s, husband and wife duo Madeline and Humberto Sa...
Viral video: Somehow Mann has succeeded without one
Former Richmonder Aimee Mann started out in a new-wave band and indulged a few solid alt-rock tendencies on her 1993 solo debut, but she had started down the long road of m...
News
Big wrecks: Should interstate detours get traffic cops?
UVA football games, Charlottesville running races, and even the recent Dogwood Festival get the benefit of police officers directing traffic. So why didn't the massive tie-...
Help Morwenna Lasko and Jay Pun score a gig at Bonnaroo
Now that Facebook is officially the most popular site on the internet, we're just pleased as punch that you're spending your time with our humble readthehook.com.
Locked doors: Two witnesses contradict Huguely's alibi
A judge certified six felony charges against former UVA lacrosse player George Huguely for the murder of fellow student-athlete and sometime girlfriend Yeardley Love in a n...
On track: Wagner's latest film rides high
From political strife in Tibet to Irish dancing to America's polio epidemic, documentary filmmaker Paul Wagner has followed his diverse interests and turned them into award...
Trump towers: Kluge vineyards go to The Donald
At times bidding in increments of $10,000, Donald Trump won the parcels containing Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard for $6.21 million, with the remainder of the Kluge hol...
On Architecture
Stellar cellar: Keswick gets decadent at Treble
“I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half of wine each day and even treble it with a friend.” - Thomas Jefferson Keswick H...
The Brazen Careerist
Special or general? Get to the top with one strong skill
During the Internet's go-go days in the late 1990s, I thought the term generalist meant "she's doing two jobs and pays herself double." Now it seems the word generalist mea...
Sports Doctor
Pop (up) quiz: Knock it out of the park
Considering the futility of psychoanalyzing Manny Ramirez, Tiger Woods, or the Boston Red Sox, and since we all need to have some fun, how about a quiz? I feel pr...
Strange But True
Feline fix: Catnip helps Fluffy feel groovy, man
Q. Elephants have been known to gorge themselves on fermented fruits, parrots become more talkative after sipping alcoholic beverages, and one dog that lived near a brewery...
Online only
Senate hopeful Kaine defends Soering transfer try
In his first press conference as a U.S. Senate hopeful, former governor Tim Kaine defends his attempt to transfer convicted murderer Jens Soering back to Germany. The Lynch...
Letters
You recent reported an incident where two students in the night-time ran off with another student's flag of Israel which hung outside his door. [April 7: "4Better or Worse"...
Black and White
“A governing body knows everything that goes into its legislative decisions whether it actually knows it or not.”~Commentator Bill Emory puts up a new photo every day a...
Full Stories List for April 14th, 2011 issue #1015
4Better Or Worse
Music Features
Letters
Art Features
News
Black and White
Essays
Green Home
Cover Stories
Online only
DR. HooK
Editor's Note
Photophile
The Dish
On Architecture
Movie Reviews
Real Estate Property auctions
Real Estate - $old
Real Estate - On the Block
Real Estate - Update
Sports Doctor
Strange But True
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